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California Business and Professions Code Section 2908

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Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent
qualified members of other recognized professional groups licensed to
practice in the State of California, such as, but not limited to,
physicians, clinical social workers, educational psychologists,
marriage and family therapists, optometrists, psychiatric
technicians, or registered nurses, or attorneys admitted to the
California State Bar, or persons utilizing hypnotic techniques by
referral from persons licensed to practice medicine, dentistry or
psychology, or persons utilizing hypnotic techniques which offer
avocational or vocational self-improvement and do not offer therapy
for emotional or mental disorders, or duly ordained members of the
recognized clergy, or duly ordained religious practitioners from
doing work of a psychological nature consistent with the laws
governing their respective professions, provided they do not hold
themselves out to the public by any title or description of services
incorporating the words "psychological," "psychologist," "psychology,"
"psychometrist," "psychometrics," or "psychometry," or that they do
not state or imply that they are licensed to practice psychology;
except that persons licensed under Article 5 (commencing with Section
4986) of Chapter 13 of Division 2 may hold themselves out to the
public as licensed educational psychologists.

Last modified: February 13, 2012