Authority and scope
Check the license and concern
The Psychology Board’s form covers psychologists and psychological examiners. The regulatory-board directory identifies a separate Arkansas Board of Examiners in Counseling and Marriage and Family Therapy. Current social-work and state addiction-counselor filing routes were not established; do not send those complaints to Psychology merely because the person provides therapy. Psychiatrist and psychiatric-nurse complaints use the medical or nursing guides.
Supporting guidance: Arkansas Psychology: currently linked complaint form ↗AASCB: counseling regulatory-board directory ↗
Match the route to the credential
Use the license listed in the practitioner’s records or official license lookup. A psychiatrist is a physician; psychiatric nurses have nursing credentials. Some psychologists have prescribing authority, so medication alone does not identify the licensing board.
Choose the right licensing authority
Psychology
Psychologists and psychological examiners; filing instructions checked.
Open this official route ↗Counseling and marriage/family therapy
Separate board identified; current complaint instructions limited. Social-work and addiction routes also remain unverified.
Open this official route ↗Checked steps and filing details to confirm
- Psychology: use the Board’s current linked complaint form. Identify the psychologist or psychological examiner, give your contact information, and attach a factual chronology with dates and relevant reports, bills or other supporting copies. Identify the ethical issue if you can.
- Sign and date the form’s truth declaration under penalty of perjury. Mail it to Arkansas Psychology Board, 4815 West Markham Street, Slot 80, Little Rock, AR 72205.
- The Psychology public page expressly rejects complaints by email or telephone. The linked PDF prints an email address after its mailing address. Use the stated mail route, or ask the Board to resolve that difference before relying on email.
- For counseling/MFT, obtain instructions directly from that separate board. Signature, authorization, anonymity and filing methods for counseling/MFT, social work and addiction credentials remain unverified.
Supporting guidance: Arkansas Psychology: public complaint instructions ↗Arkansas Psychology: currently linked complaint form ↗AASCB: counseling regulatory-board directory ↗
What this route may not provide
Psychology reviews alleged professional misconduct under its standards. Its form describes dismissal, consent resolutions and public disciplinary hearings; patient compensation authority was not established. Counseling/MFT remedies were not verified. Identify whether your concern is an individual practitioner’s credential, a treatment program or a private certification, since these require a separate jurisdiction check.
Supporting guidance: Arkansas Psychology: currently linked complaint form ↗
Do not guess about confidentiality
Psychology requires a signed complaint. Its page warns that filing waives patient and other confidentiality protections; the form says the entire complaint goes to the respondent and warns of public-record disclosure. Ask about authority to release another person’s or a child’s records before including them. These rules were not verified for other boards.
Supporting guidance: Arkansas Psychology: public complaint instructions ↗Arkansas Psychology: currently linked complaint form ↗
Ask promptly; filing limits unverified
A filing deadline was not established by this check; ask promptly. Psychology’s stated 30-day respondent response period is an agency process step, not your deadline to complain.
Supporting guidance: Arkansas Psychology: currently linked complaint form ↗
What may happen after filing
For Psychology, the screening committee reviews the complaint and response, investigates where needed and presents the matter to the Board. A case may close, settle by consent or proceed to a public hearing. You may be asked to testify.
Supporting guidance: Arkansas Psychology: currently linked complaint form ↗
Prepare a reviewable submission
State the concern you want reviewed, give a short chronology and factual consequences, and explain your request. Keep supporting records and follow the receiving authority’s instructions before attaching or sending them.
Sources and scope
Some agency-linked forms and destinations could not be read. Source-check dates apply to the material listed below; they do not establish that every linked portal was inspected or a complaint submitted.
Arkansas Psychology: public complaint instructions ↗
Written signed complaint, no email/phone, confidentiality waiver and current mailing address.
Source checked: September 19, 2026
Arkansas Psychology: currently linked complaint form ↗
Declaration, supporting material, respondent disclosure, public records, address and process.
Source checked: September 19, 2026
AASCB: counseling regulatory-board directory ↗
Separate Arkansas Counseling and MFT board and linked authority website.
Source checked: September 19, 2026
Latest guide source check: September 19, 2026. Individual sources retain their own check dates. This records a review of the linked material, not a decision about your case. No clinical or legal reviewer is identified for this guide. Confirm current instructions with the receiving authority.