Colorado's New AI Psychotherapy Law for Licensed Therapists
Colorado HB 26-1195 takes effect August 12, 2026. It regulates what a licensed clinician can do with AI: real-time supervision, written consent to record.
Jul 12, 2026 Matthew Sexton, LCSW
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Colorado HB 26-1195 takes effect August 12, 2026. It regulates what a licensed clinician can do with AI: real-time supervision, written consent to record.
Roughly 74% of mental-health AI funding in 2025-26 went to clinician-integrated tools, not chatbots. Therapists are using AI more and trusting it less. The thing that predicts whether a tool is safe isn't the model. It's who built it.
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