Vermont Psychologist Continuing Education Requirements
Vermont psychologists must complete 60 continuing education hours every 2 years to renew their Psychologist license, including 6 hours of ethics, 24 hours of large group formal presentation, and 1 hour of cultural competency.
60
total hours / 2 years
6
ethics hours
1
cultural competency hours
24
large group formal presentation hours
Biennial renewal · calculating the next statewide deadline
Vermont Psychologist requirements
| Requirement | Notes |
|---|---|
| Total continuing education | 60 hours every 2 years. |
| Renewal | Biennial cycle: CE due by January 31 of even years. |
| Renewal fee | $195 board renewal fee every 2 years. |
| Ethics | 6 hours required each cycle. |
| Large Group Formal Presentation | 24 hours required each cycle. |
| Cultural Competency | 1 hour required each cycle. |
| New licensees | No continuing education is due at a first renewal reached within the licensee's first two years of licensure: "With the first renewal application after two years of licensure, and with each subsequent renewal application, documentation of completion of 60 hours of acceptable continuing education is required" (Rule 8.2), which the Office restates as "60 hours of continuing education is required beginning with your first renewal after two years of licensure and every renewal thereafter." Because every license expires on the fixed statewide date (January 31 of even years), a licensee issued 91 or more days before that date reaches a first renewal short of two years of licensure and owes nothing; a licensee issued within 90 days of the renewal date is "granted through the next full two-year period" (OPR initial-license policy), so their first renewal falls after more than two years of licensure and the full 60 hours is due — the months_licensed_in_cycle < 24 predicate distinguishes the two. There is no partial proration: the first renewal requires either the full 60 hours or none. Boundary caveat, disclosed deliberately: the engine counts whole calendar months including the issuance month, so a licensee issued mid-month exactly at the two-year boundary can be counted as 24 months licensed and asked for the full requirement — a never-under-enforcing reading of "after two years of licensure." |
| Approved providers | Vermont enforces no universal provider-approval gate, so no provider list is enforced (provider_lists_enforced: false): "Continuing education programs sponsored by the American Psychological Association and the Vermont Psychological Association are pre-approved by the Board. The Board may pre-approve other specific providers or programs. A list of those approvals will be kept by the Board and be available from the Board's website" (Rule 8.11) — pre-approval is a safe harbor, and activities outside pre-approved programs remain claimable when they meet the content test of Rule 8.3 and are documented on the board's forms subject to audit (Rules 8.9-8.10; ethics hours carry the special criteria in the CEU Ethics Statement, encoded on the ethics_floor requirement). The must_be_within_cycle_window flag is set because "Only continuing education taken within two years of the renewal date is counted" (Rule 8.2) — hours earned before the current biennial window cannot be applied, and no provision permits carrying excess hours forward into the next cycle, so no carryover is permitted. |
| Recordkeeping | Keep CE documentation for 4 years after each course's completion date. |
| Board audit | The board may audit licensees to verify CE compliance. |
| Late renewal | A late renewal allows a late fee. |
Limits on how the hours are earned
Board caps and floors on where the 60 hours can come from.
- individual activitiesmax 24 hrs
Keeping the proof in order: what to keep for a CE audit, with every state’s retention period and what the audit notice asks for.
Total hours
60 hours every 2 years.
Renewal
Biennial cycle: CE due by January 31 of even years.
Renewal fee
$195 board renewal fee every 2 years.
Ethics
6 hours required each cycle.
Large Group Formal Presentation
24 hours required each cycle.
Cultural Competency
1 hour required each cycle.
New licensees
No continuing education is due at a first renewal reached within the licensee's first two years of licensure: "With the first renewal application after two years of licensure, and with each subsequent renewal application, documentation of completion of 60 hours of acceptable continuing education is required" (Rule 8.2), which the Office restates as "60 hours of continuing education is required beginning with your first renewal after two years of licensure and every renewal thereafter." Because every license expires on the fixed statewide date (January 31 of even years), a licensee issued 91 or more days before that date reaches a first renewal short of two years of licensure and owes nothing; a licensee issued within 90 days of the renewal date is "granted through the next full two-year period" (OPR initial-license policy), so their first renewal falls after more than two years of licensure and the full 60 hours is due — the months_licensed_in_cycle < 24 predicate distinguishes the two. There is no partial proration: the first renewal requires either the full 60 hours or none. Boundary caveat, disclosed deliberately: the engine counts whole calendar months including the issuance month, so a licensee issued mid-month exactly at the two-year boundary can be counted as 24 months licensed and asked for the full requirement — a never-under-enforcing reading of "after two years of licensure."
Approved providers
Vermont enforces no universal provider-approval gate, so no provider list is enforced (provider_lists_enforced: false): "Continuing education programs sponsored by the American Psychological Association and the Vermont Psychological Association are pre-approved by the Board. The Board may pre-approve other specific providers or programs. A list of those approvals will be kept by the Board and be available from the Board's website" (Rule 8.11) — pre-approval is a safe harbor, and activities outside pre-approved programs remain claimable when they meet the content test of Rule 8.3 and are documented on the board's forms subject to audit (Rules 8.9-8.10; ethics hours carry the special criteria in the CEU Ethics Statement, encoded on the ethics_floor requirement). The must_be_within_cycle_window flag is set because "Only continuing education taken within two years of the renewal date is counted" (Rule 8.2) — hours earned before the current biennial window cannot be applied, and no provision permits carrying excess hours forward into the next cycle, so no carryover is permitted.
Recordkeeping
Keep CE documentation for 4 years after each course's completion date.
Board audit
The board may audit licensees to verify CE compliance.
Late renewal
A late renewal allows a late fee.
Full board policy details
- STRUCTURE: Vermont organizes acceptable CE into three named activity groups — "Continuing education may be obtained via: (a) large group and formal presentations; (b) small group activities; and (c) individual activities" (Rule 8.4), each with its own board documentation form. The two inter-group constraints are encoded structurally: the 24-hour large-group floor (large_group_floor, Rule 8.5(c)) and the 24-hour individual-activities cap (individual_activities_cap, Rule 8.8(f)). Small group activities — pre-planned meetings of 3 to 8 professional peers, in person or via electronic visual media, that review current issues in psychology, discuss the practice of psychology, or provide clinical case conceptualization and review including ongoing case consultation or supervision, and which may include group professional book or journal clubs (Rule 8.6) — carry no stated floor or cap; arithmetically, at most 36 small-group hours can fit in a 60-hour total alongside the 24-hour large-group floor. No rule requires drawing from a minimum number of the three groups ("No minimum number of individual activities is required," Rule 8.8(f)) — a licensee may earn all 60 hours from large group and formal presentation activity.
- TOPIC CONCENTRATION: "No more than 30 hours may be dedicated to any one topic" (Rule 8.1(b)). This is a concentration cap over an open-ended, free-form topic space — topic identity is not a dimension the engine tracks, and no category vocabulary could enumerate "any one topic," so the cap is recorded here as prose rather than as a structured requirement: a disclosed representational gap, faithfully stated for the licensee on the requirement page. The mandated topic floors themselves (6 ethics + 1 systematic oppression) total 7 hours and cannot conflict with it, and no encoded verdict depends on topic identity, so the engine never contradicts the cap — it simply cannot detect a licensee who exceeds 30 hours on one self-selected topic.
- FORMAT: Vermont sets no delivery-format quota as such — asynchronous and self-paced study is bounded only through the individual-activities tier ("on line continuing education courses," professional readings, tapes and similar independent study are individual activities capped at 24 of the 60 hours, Rule 8.8), and the live floor is the large-group tier's 24 hours. "Synchronous virtual continuing education credits shall be approvable and accepted as live in-person training" (26 V.S.A. § 3015(d)(3)); per the Office, "where administrative rules require in-person or face-to-face continuing education, synchronous (live or interactive and not pre-recorded) virtual continuing education courses qualify as live, in-person training and will be accepted for renewal" (OPR, citing H.305 (2023)) — Rule 8.5(b) itself already lists webinars and "other formats that allow for a live exchange among participants" as large group activity. The chapter contains no per-day, per-course, or single-instructor limit, so every engine verdict is identical to having no such limits at all.
- CREDIT CONVERSIONS AND REPEATS: All activities are credited one-for-one — documentation "must show hours of attendance and participation" (Rule 8.9), and Part 8 states no semester-unit, teaching-multiplier, publication, or board-certification ratio. The single non-clock-hour credit is the Vermont Jurisprudence Examination's one hour per two-year licensing period (Rule 8.8(e)), encoded as the jurisprudence_exam_credit conversion. Repeats: professional writing or speaking (including preparation of courses and formal presentations) is creditable "not more than once for the subject matter covered" (Rule 8.8(a)) — the restriction is carried on the writing_speaking_credit conversion, whose credits enter hour-for-hour and land under the individual-activities cap; a presenter may not re-claim the same subject matter within the requirement. No other repeat restriction is stated for attendees.
- LICENSE STATUS AND REINSTATEMENT: Vermont provides no inactive, retired, or emeritus status for this profession — a license not renewed by the expiration date "will expire automatically" (Rule 7.1). "An expired license can be reinstated by applying to the Board for reinstatement and paying the appropriate fees. As a condition of reinstatement, applicants must meet all renewal requirements and document that they have acquired 60 hours of continuing education as required by these rules within 24 months of the application" (Rule 7.2) — the reinstatement CE quantum equals the standard current-period requirement, so the default requirements express it and no conditional block is needed; the statute adds a reinstatement fee and forgives back renewal fees ("A person reinstating shall not be required to pay renewal fees for the years during which the license was lapsed," 26 V.S.A. § 3015(c)). A license "lapsed for more than five years" without licensed practice in another U.S. or Canadian jurisdiction (Rule 7.3's body text; the rule's heading reads "Lapses of Five Years or More") additionally requires the jurisprudence examination, the renewal CE, registration on the roster of nonlicensed and noncertified psychotherapists, and 1,000 hours of supervised practice before full reinstatement (Rule 7.3).
- WAIVERS AND SHORTFALLS: "Upon application, the Board may exempt from continuing education requirements a licensee on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces if obtaining continuing education credits would be impossible in practice or a significant hardship for the licensee" (26 V.S.A. § 3015(d)(4)). The 2015 rules provide no separate illness or hardship waiver and no conditional or provisional registration for a licensee short on hours at renewal; the corrective mechanism is post-audit — a licensee an audit shows short of the 60 hours "will be given 90 days to develop and complete a corrective plan to correct the deficiencies," with noncompliance subject to disciplinary action (Rule 8.13(b)). Audits reach "currently conditioned licensees and randomly selected licensees," and may reach late renewers and licensees found deficient in either of the two preceding cycles (Rule 8.13(a)).
- OVERLAYS AND RECIPROCAL CREDIT: Vermont is a PSYPACT member — "Vermont hereby enacts and adopts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact" (26 V.S.A. § 3021, added by 2023 Act 37, effective July 1, 2024, codified at §§ 3021-3035). PSYPACT authority (APIT for telepsychology, Temporary Authorization to Practice for in-person work, built on ASPPB's E.Passport and IPC credentials) is a mobility overlay maintained ASPPB-side; nothing in Part 8 or § 3015 attaches Vermont CE hours to it, and it does not alter the 60-hour requirement. Vermont grants psychologists no prescriptive authority (no RxP tier exists in 26 V.S.A. chapter 55). Cross-profession credit: "If the licensee is licensed in one or more other mental health professions under this title, continuing education units completed for one mental health profession shall count toward the required continuing education units for the other mental health profession or professions for which the licensee is licensed under this title" (26 V.S.A. § 3015(d)(5)) — dual-licensed practitioners may apply the same units to both renewals. This rule file covers both psychologist license classes identically: Part 8 binds "each licensee," and the Office publishes one combined "Psychologist Master's & Doctorate Renewals" CE section; the file is keyed to the doctoral product credential, with the Psychologist-Master a separate credential sharing the same requirement.
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How many CE hours do Vermont Psychologist licensees need?
Vermont requires 60 continuing education hours every 2 years to renew a Psychologist license. Biennial cycle: CE due by January 31 of even years.
How many ethics hours are required for Vermont Psychologist licensees?
Of the total, 6 hours must be in ethics.
How often do Vermont Psychologist licensees renew?
Biennial cycle: CE due by January 31 of even years.
How much does Vermont Psychologist license renewal cost?
The board's renewal fee is $195 every 2 years, per the Vermont board fee schedule. CE course costs are separate and set by course providers.
Are there subject-specific CE requirements for Vermont Psychologist licensees?
Yes. In addition to ethics, Vermont requires 24 hours of large group formal presentation, 1 hour of cultural competency.
Is the first renewal different for new Vermont Psychologist licensees?
No continuing education is due at a first renewal reached within the licensee's first two years of licensure: "With the first renewal application after two years of licensure, and with each subsequent renewal application, documentation of completion of 60 hours of acceptable continuing education is required" (Rule 8.2), which the Office restates as "60 hours of continuing education is required beginning with your first renewal after two years of licensure and every renewal thereafter." Because every license expires on the fixed statewide date (January 31 of even years), a licensee issued 91 or more days before that date reaches a first renewal short of two years of licensure and owes nothing; a licensee issued within 90 days of the renewal date is "granted through the next full two-year period" (OPR initial-license policy), so their first renewal falls after more than two years of licensure and the full 60 hours is due — the months_licensed_in_cycle < 24 predicate distinguishes the two. There is no partial proration: the first renewal requires either the full 60 hours or none. Boundary caveat, disclosed deliberately: the engine counts whole calendar months including the issuance month, so a licensee issued mid-month exactly at the two-year boundary can be counted as 24 months licensed and asked for the full requirement — a never-under-enforcing reading of "after two years of licensure."
Sources & verification
- State source
- Vermont board rule
- Fee schedule
- Vermont board fee schedule
- Last verified
- August 2026
- Ruleset version
- 2026.1
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