Law / United States / Maine
Use of artificial intelligence in therapy or psychotherapy services
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As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
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- Do not provide, advertise, or otherwise offer therapy or psychotherapy services to the public, including through Internet-based artificial intelligence, unless the services are provided by a professional licensed in Maine to practice psychotherapy or behavioral health therapy.
- If you are a Maine-licensed therapy professional using AI for supplementary support such as session notes, give the client written disclosure and get consent first, and never let AI make an independent therapeutic decision, interact directly with the client in therapeutic communication, or generate a treatment recommendation without your review and approval.
- AI use limited to administrative tasks such as scheduling or billing needs no client consent.
- An exception applies only to an AI-based intervention used solely within an institutional-review-board-approved research project.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Office of the Maine Attorney General under the Unfair Trade Practices Act for the public-facing prohibition; the applicable Title 32 professional licensing board for a licensee's own use of AI.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition, Consent, Governance
What this law does
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A person may not provide, advertise, or otherwise offer therapy or psychotherapy services to the public, including through Internet-based artificial intelligence, unless those services are provided by a professional licensed in Maine to practice psychotherapy or behavioral health therapy; a violation is a violation of the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act.
The same act enacts parallel provisions across seven licensing-board chapters of Title 32 (including 32 M.R.S. §§ 2113, 2600-G, 3300-J, 3820-A, 6207-D, 7009, and 13870) that let a Maine-licensed therapy professional use AI for administrative support such as scheduling or billing and, with the client's written disclosure and consent, for supplementary support such as session notes, but forbid letting AI make an independent therapeutic decision, interact directly with a client in therapeutic communication, or generate a treatment recommendation without the licensee's review and approval; a violation of a board-chapter provision is enforced through board discipline under 10 M.R.S. § 8003(5) rather than through the Unfair Trade Practices Act.
Each provision excepts an AI-based intervention used solely within an institutional-review-board-approved research project. Enacted as LD 2082 (P.L. 2026, ch. 687) and signed by the Governor on April 13, 2026.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
chaptered Public Law text (P.L. 2026, ch. 687), Maine Legislature (LD 2082)