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Assisting Regulated Canadian Practitioners with Registration in Ontario

Ontario facilitates labour mobility via the Agreement on Internal Trade and its Labour Mobility Act. CRPO accepts equivalent qualifications from other provinces, streamlining registration while following specific rules and criteria.


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Labour Mobility

Assisting Regulated Canadian Practitioners with Registration in Ontario

Ontario facilitates labour mobility via the Agreement on Internal Trade and its Labour Mobility Act. The CRPO accepts equivalent qualifications from other provinces, streamlining registration while following specific rules and criteria.

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Introduction

 

Ontario is a party to the national Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) which provides for labour mobility of regulated professionals between provinces. In addition, Ontario passed its own Labour Mobility Act in 2009, implementing AIT.

 

Under labour mobility laws, the College is legally required to accept the professional qualifications of individuals who hold “equivalent” certificates of registration in another Canadian province or territory and who have worked in that profession in their province within the previous three years. Applicants registered in another province or territory who wish to apply for registration with CRPO need not be using the title Registered Psychotherapist in the other jurisdiction. The determining factor will be whether the scope of practice in that jurisdiction is substantially equivalent to the scope of practice for RPs in Ontario.

 

Registration as a psychologist in another Canadian province does not meet the eligibility requirements for registration with CRPO through labour mobility. Please contact the College of Psychologists of Ontario.

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Labour Mobility Rules

  • Under the labour mobility rules, CRPO cannot:

    • look at the applicant’s educational qualifications; or
    • require them to write the Registration Exam if the applicant is already registered in the equivalent of the Registered Psychotherapist category.

  • Under the labour mobility rules, CRPO can:

    • ask about prior misconduct, offenses, and negligence findings;
    • require language proficiency (but only if their previous college had no language requirement);
    • require professional liability insurance coverage;
    • require the applicant to successfully complete the Jurisprudence e-Learning Module;

  • Under the labour mobility rules, CRPO can:

    • inquire about their direct client and clinical supervision hours for the purpose of ‘independent’ practice;
    • inquire whether they are in good standing with their current regulatory body; and
    • inquire whether they were practising their full scope of practice in the other jurisdiction.

Provinces who Regulate Practitioners

Currently, four provinces regulate practitioners who are eligible to apply for registration with CRPO under labour mobility rules. To be eligible, practitioners must be an active registrant with at least one of the following regulatory bodies:

  • Labour Mobility

    Prince Edward Island

    College of Counselling Therapy of Prince Edward Island (CCTPEI)

  • Labour Mobility

    New Brunswick

    College of Counselling Therapists of New Brunswick (CCTNB)

  • Labour Mobility

    Nova Scotia

    Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists (NSCCT)

  • Labour Mobility

    Québec

    Ordre des Psychologues du Québec (holder of a Psychotherapy Permit only)

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Labour Mobility Independent Practice Form

  • Labour Mobility Independent Practice Form

    If you are applying through the Labour Mobility application route for registration in the Registered Psychotherapist category, you will be asked to submit this form once you have met the independent practice requirement (completion of at least 1,000 direct client contact (DCC) hours and 150 clinical supervision hours). You are not required to have met the independent practice requirement in order to become registered; you can submit the form at any time after registration.

     

    If you are applying for registration in the Qualifying category, or through an application route other than Labour Mobility, you are not eligible to use this form.

    Download the form

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