MFT Licensure and COAMFTE Accreditation
The MFT License
State law regulates many professions to protect the consumer from incompetent, negligent and exploitative service providers. The MFT field is one profession (along with the psychotherapy professions of psychology and social work) that the state regulates in terms of educational and clinical training requirements and safe, fair practice. The Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) is the state agency that regulates the practice of MFT. The MFT license: (1) identifies the holder as having met certain minimum requirements of competence in the field; (2) entitles the holder to present him/herself as a licensed MFT; and (3) allows the holder to provide services within the scope of practice, as defined by law.
Our degree and curriculum are approved by the BBS, as described in the Business and Professions Code Section 4980.37, Section 4980.40, and Section 4980.41, as a qualifying program to provide the educational preparation for the MFT license. The degree that SDSU grants is called Master of Science in Counseling with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy.
