Delaware Telehealth Registration Requirements & Hours Tracker

Telepsychology into Delaware is governed both by Delaware’s Psychology Act (Title 24, Chapter 35), Delaware’s telehealth statute (Title 24, Chapter 60), and the Board of Examiners of Psychologists’ regulations in 24 DE Admin. Code 3500. Within this framework, a “Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration” is a specific registration type that lets a fully licensed psychologist in another state treat patients located in Delaware via telehealth, without obtaining a full Delaware psychologist license.

Because you asked specifically about hours and the Board’s own language, it is important to distinguish between:

1. The underlying supervised-experience hours required to be licensed as a psychologist (which Delaware spells out in detail), and
2. The interstate telehealth registration, which relies on your existing psychology license and does not add its own hour-count requirement.

Below is a structured guide built around those two pieces.

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1. What “Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration” is in Delaware

Delaware law authorizes certain boards, including the Board of Examiners of Psychologists, to allow their licensees (or their out‑of‑state counterparts) to practice via telehealth and telemedicine under Chapter 60 of Title 24. The Board of Examiners of Psychologists is explicitly listed among the boards whose professions are authorized to deliver services by telehealth under this chapter. (delcode.delaware.gov)

The Division of Professional Regulation (DPR) and Delaware Health Force list “Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration” as a separate license type under the Board of Examiners of Psychologists, alongside “Psychologist,” “Psychological Assistant,” and “Psychologist Military Registration.” (dehealthforce.org)

This registration:

• Allows an out‑of‑state psychologist to provide health‑care services via telehealth only to patients located in Delaware.
• Does not convert you into a fully licensed Delaware psychologist.
• Is renewed on the same biennial cycle as psychologist licenses, expiring July 31 of odd‑numbered years. (dpr.delaware.gov)

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2. Who actually needs a Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration?

Delaware now participates in PSYPACT, the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact. Delaware enacted PSYPACT via HB 172 (effective July 1, 2020), and the Compact provisions are codified at 24 Del. C. Chapter 35A. (psypact.gov)

This creates three main pathways to lawfully see Delaware patients by telehealth:

1. Full Delaware psychologist license (traditional licensure).
2. PSYPACT (authority to practice interjurisdictional telepsychology into Delaware, if both Delaware and your home state are PSYPACT states and you hold an E‑Passport).
3. Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration (the subject of your question), generally used when:
   • You are licensed as a psychologist in another state,
   • Your home state has not enacted the relevant psychology compact with Delaware, and
   • You wish to see Delaware patients only by telehealth/telemedicine, not in person.

Delaware’s general telehealth registration guidance for other professions makes this explicit: a health‑care provider may apply for an interstate telehealth registration only if they are licensed in a state other than Delaware and are not actively licensed in a state that has enacted a compact in which Delaware participates. (dpr.delaware.gov)

While that wording appears on other boards’ pages, Chapter 60 treats “health‑care providers” uniformly. For psychologists, that means:

• If your home state is a PSYPACT state and you want to treat Delaware patients, the intended route is PSYPACT, not the interstate telehealth registration.
• If your home state is not in PSYPACT (or another applicable compact with Delaware), you may use Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration as your path to serve Delaware patients via telehealth.

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3. Legal prerequisites for an Interstate Telehealth Registration (psychologist)

Chapter 60 of Title 24 sets the baseline requirements for interstate telehealth registration. It does not differentiate by profession; psychologists are covered as long as they fall under the Board of Examiners of Psychologists in §6002(a). (delcode.delaware.gov)

Under 24 Del. C. §6002(c), a health‑care provider (including a psychologist) is eligible for an interstate telehealth registration only if all of the following are continuously met:

1. Valid out‑of‑state license.

   • You must hold a valid, active license issued by another state’s licensing authority or board. (delcode.delaware.gov)

2. Good standing in all jurisdictions.

   • You must be “licensed in good standing in all states in which” you are licensed. (delcode.delaware.gov)

3. No pending administrative complaints.

   • You cannot be “the subject of an administrative complaint which is currently pending before another state’s licensing authority or board.” (delcode.delaware.gov)

4. No current investigations.

   • You cannot be “currently under investigation by another state’s licensing authority or board, or any authority in this State.” (delcode.delaware.gov)

In addition, by registering, you consent to:

• Being fully subject to Delaware law governing psychologists, including provisions of Title 11, Title 16, and Title 24, and all applicable state regulations. (delcode.delaware.gov)
• The jurisdiction of Delaware courts. (delcode.delaware.gov)
• The jurisdiction, complaint, investigation, and hearing processes of the Delaware Board of Examiners of Psychologists, and to the possibility that any discipline may be reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank and to other states where you hold a license. (delcode.delaware.gov)

The DPR’s telehealth pages also emphasize that you may provide health‑care services by telehealth or telemedicine only if a provider‑patient relationship has been established in accordance with §6003 of Title 24. (dpr.delaware.gov)

Section 6003 then defines what must be present for that relationship (verification of patient identity and location, disclosure of provider identity, informed consent for telehealth, appropriate diagnosis process, discussion of diagnosis and risks/benefits, arrangements for follow‑up, and a written visit summary). (delcode.delaware.gov)

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4. Does the Telehealth Registration have its own “hours” requirements?

For Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration itself, Delaware does not impose any separate clinical-hour or supervised‑hour requirement beyond what was required to obtain your underlying psychologist license in your home state.

In other words:

• There is no Delaware‑specific requirement of “X hours of telehealth” or “Y hours of supervised telehealth” attached to the telehealth registration.
• Delaware’s focus for the registration is on your licensure status and disciplinary history (active license in good standing, no pending complaints or investigations), and on your agreement to practice under Delaware’s laws and standards when treating Delaware patients via telehealth. (delcode.delaware.gov)

However, if you want to understand the Board of Examiners of Psychologists’ own hour-based requirements, those come into play for full Delaware licensure as a psychologist, not for the telehealth registration. Those hour requirements are detailed below.

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5. Supervised-experience hours required by the Delaware Board for psychologist licensure

The Board’s supervised-experience rules are in 24 DE Admin. Code 3500‑7.0 (“Supervised Experience”). These govern what is “pertinent to licensure as a psychologist or registration as a psychological assistant.” (regulations.justia.com)

5.1 Types of supervised experience

The Board states that the supervision relevant to psychologist licensure consists of three types: (regulations.justia.com)

1. Predoctoral internship supervision
2. Supervised postdoctoral experience
3. Supervision of psychological assistants

For initial licensure as a psychologist, the first two are critical.

5.2 Predoctoral internship hours

The Board’s regulation provides that: (regulations.justia.com)

• The predoctoral internship must consist of a minimum of 1,500 hours of actual work experience.
• Those 1,500 hours must be completed in no fewer than 48 weeks and no more than 104 weeks.
• At least 50% of the supervised internship experience must be in clinical services, including activities such as treatment, consultation, assessment, and report writing.
• At least 25% of that time must be devoted to face‑to‑face direct patient or client contact.
• No more than 25% of the time may be allocated to research.
• The rule specifies that “face‑to‑face” means either in‑person or live video conferencing, which effectively recognizes telehealth modalities for internship contact hours, so long as they otherwise meet the Board’s requirements.

In practical terms:

Predoctoral internship requirement = 1,500 hours total
– At least 750 hours in clinical services (50% of 1,500)
– Within that, at least 25% of the total time (375+ hours) face‑to‑face direct patient/client contact
– Up to 375 hours (25%) may be research

5.3 Postdoctoral supervised-experience hours

For postdoctoral experience, the Board requires: (regulations.justia.com)

• 1,500 hours of actual work experience under the supervision of a licensed psychologist.
• These 1,500 hours must be completed in not less than one calendar year and not more than three calendar years.
• At least 25% of the 1,500 hours must be devoted to direct service in the area of the applicant’s academic training.
  • The Board defines “direct service” as any activity that falls under the “practice of psychology” or the supervision of graduate students who are engaging in such activities.
• There must be at least one hour of face‑to‑face supervision for every 10 hours of clinical work.
• Group supervision can substitute for some individual supervision if:
  • No more than five postdoctoral applicants meet with the supervising psychologist at any one time, and
  • There are at least two hours of group supervision in place of each one hour of individual supervision.

Putting that together:

Postdoctoral supervised experience requirement = 1,500 hours total
– At least 375 hours (25%) must be direct service in your academic area
– At least 1 hour of face‑to‑face supervision for every 10 hours of clinical work
– Group supervision allowed within strict ratios and group size limits

5.4 Total hours for full Delaware psychologist licensure

If you are pursuing a full Delaware psychologist license, the Board’s supervised-experience structure effectively requires:

• 1,500 hours predoctoral internship, plus
• 1,500 hours supervised postdoctoral experience,

for a total of 3,000 hours of supervised experience, with the specific distribution between clinical work, direct service, research, and supervision described above. (regulations.justia.com)

These hour requirements are Board-specific and are the “verbiage” Delaware uses to define the experiential base for independent practice as a psychologist in the state.

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6. Relationship between those hours and interstate telehealth registration

When you apply for a Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration, Delaware:

• Does not re‑count or separately mandate that you have exactly 1,500 predoctoral and 1,500 postdoctoral hours.
• Instead, it assumes that your home‑state psychologist license was issued under that state’s requirements (which typically involve substantial supervised experience) and focuses on:
  • Whether that license is active and in good standing;
  • Whether there are any pending complaints or investigations; and
  • Whether you are eligible given compact status and other statutory conditions. (delcode.delaware.gov)

However, if you later choose to obtain a full Delaware psychologist license (for in‑state practice or as a Delaware “home state” under PSYPACT), you would then need to document that your education and supervised experience satisfy Delaware’s own hour requirements described in Section 5.

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7. Renewal and ongoing obligations for Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration

The DPR’s renewal page for the Board of Examiners of Psychologists sets out the ongoing obligations for this registration type: (dpr.delaware.gov)

• The Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration expires on July 31 of odd‑numbered years (e.g., 2023, 2025).
• You must renew in DELPROS every two years while it is active.
• At each renewal, you must attest that:
  • You continue to hold at least one active license issued by another state’s licensing authority or board, and
  • All licenses you hold or have ever held remain in good standing.

The telehealth statute further requires that, when using telehealth or telemedicine to treat Delaware patients, you: (delcode.delaware.gov)

• Establish a proper provider‑patient relationship per §6003;
• Meet the same standard of care as you would in an in‑person encounter;
• Maintain complete, compliant records; and
• Comply with any board‑specific telehealth rules the Board of Examiners of Psychologists may adopt under §6002(b).

There is no Delaware‑specific continuing‑education hour requirement attached only to the telehealth registration; instead, you must meet your home state’s CE requirements and comply generally with Delaware law and Board standards (including CE requirements if you later hold a full Delaware psychologist license, which currently requires 40 hours per biennium with specified content in ethics and cultural inclusion, equity, and diversity). (regulations.justia.com)

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8. Step‑by‑step outline to obtain a Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration

For an out‑of‑state psychologist whose home state is not PSYPACT‑participating (or otherwise compacted with Delaware), the practical steps are:

1. Confirm that you are eligible for this path.

   • Verify that your home state is not a PSYPACT state if you intend to use the interstate telehealth registration route. (psypact.gov)
   • Confirm that your psychology license(s) are active, unrestricted, and in good standing, with no pending complaints or investigations.

2. Create or access your DELPROS account.

   • Go to Delaware’s online licensing system (DELPROS) and either register as a new user or log in as an existing user. (dpr.delaware.gov)

3. Select the correct application type.

   • Within the Board of Examiners of Psychologists, choose “Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration” as the license type (as listed in the boards-and-licenses lexicon). (dehealthforce.org)

4. Submit required documentation.

   • Provide verification of your out‑of‑state psychologist license(s)—often via direct license verifications sent from each state in which you have ever held a license, or via any specific verification mechanism DPR requires for telehealth registrations. (dpr.delaware.gov)
   • Provide any additional forms DPR may require under Chapter 60 (such as a registration or “Medical Request Form” for mental/behavioral health providers under §6005). (delcode.delaware.gov)

5. Pay the applicable fee and submit the application.

   • Fees and supporting documentation requirements are managed within DELPROS and may change over time; you must complete all listed steps before the Board or DPR will issue the telehealth registration.

6. Wait for approval before practicing.

   • Do not begin seeing Delaware patients until your Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration is issued and shows as active in DELPROS.

7. Maintain and renew your registration.

   • Track the biennial renewal date (July 31 of odd‑numbered years) and, at each renewal, attest to continued good standing and active licensure in at least one other state. (dpr.delaware.gov)
   • Continue to meet all standards of practice, recordkeeping, and confidentiality under both your home state’s law and Delaware’s psychology and telehealth statutes.

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In summary, Delaware’s Psychologist Interstate Telehealth Registration does not create a new, independent supervised‑hour requirement. Instead, it hinges on your existing psychologist license in another state and on statutory conditions about good standing and discipline. The Board of Examiners of Psychologists’ hour‑based requirements—1,500 hours of predoctoral internship and 1,500 hours of supervised postdoctoral experience, with specified proportions of clinical, direct‑service, and supervised time—apply to full Delaware psychologist licensure, and they define the Board’s expectations for the experiential foundation of independent practice.