Bll 21, which will make psychotherapy a reserved profession, has not yet come into force. This section of the website will be updated when the regulations are adopted.

This section is designed to provide information to psychotherapists. Bill 21, passed in June 2009, provides for the practice of psychotherapy to be reserved to psychologists, physicians, and members of the following professional orders:

1) Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation (order of guidance counsellors)

2) Ordre des psychoéducateurs et des psychoéducatrices (order of psychoeducators)

3) Ordre professionnel des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux (order of social workers, couple and family therapists)

4) Ordre des ergothérapeutes du Québec (order of occupational therapists)

5) Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (order of registered nurses).

Non-members of these orders who have the necessary training and skills will also be able to practise psychotherapy under a grandfather clause. All psychotherapists other than physicians and psychologists will have to obtain a permit from the Ordre des psychologues du Québec.

Bill 21 makes the Ordre des psychologues du Québec responsible for supervising the practice of psychotherapy. All information concerning the roll of psychotherapists and the services and supervision the Order will provide them will appear in this section of the website once the relevant regulations have been adopted.

For all questions about psychotherapy, please refer to the Psychotherapy section under Public.

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