[AllAmericanGirl44]

A dear friend is a licensed PhD psychologist in CA and it took years and the hoops CA makes them jump through are endless.
If for no other reason than the respect I hold for what it took for my friend to gain the license, I’m grateful that Edsel is being called out on this point.

[JockoManning]

imho, it’s mostly professional GATE KEEPING—to keep the pool of high earning professionals relatively small—as small as workable legally.

[JockoManning]

I say that largely because EVERY study ever comparing licensed practitioners with unlicensed--there was NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN QUALITY AND SAFETY OF SERVICE DELIVERED TO THE CLIENTS.

Yet licensing is touted as 100% essential for the SAFETY of the consumer. But it does NOT WORK for that. Just as many licensed professionals were corrupt, sexually dangerous etc. as unlicensed.