Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards

What Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards does

The Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) is a non-profit professional regulatory association founded in 1960 and headquartered in Tyrone, Georgia. It serves as the coordinating body for state psychology boards in the United States and provincial psychology boards in Canada, standardizing licensure across roughly 60+ North American jurisdictions. ASPPB develops and administers the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) and the Psychopharmacology Examination for Psychologists (PEP), the latter for psychologists with prescriptive authority.

ASPPB's technology platform, PSYHUB, is the centralized candidate-facing portal for exam registration, accommodations, score management, and credential administration. Surrounding it are several registered-mark credential products: E.Passport (portable credential banking), the Interjurisdictional Practice Certificate (IPC) for temporary cross-jurisdiction practice, the Certificate of Professional Qualification in Psychology (CPQ) for licensure mobility, and the Psychology Licensure Universal System (PLUS) for streamlined multi-jurisdiction applications. The Centre for Data and Analysis on Psychology and Licaggregate aggregates workforce, disciplinary, and program-level outcome data supporting research and policy work.

The organization operates a diversified non-profit revenue model: recurring membership dues from state and provincial psychology boards, one-time examination and retake fees for EPPP and PEP, score-transfer fees for cross-jurisdictional mobility, and credentialing fees for E.Passport, IPC, CPQ, and PLUS applications. Distribution is dual-channel — self-serve through PSYHUB for individual candidates, and direct coordination with member licensing boards for system-level policy and standards development. ASPPB launched integrated EPPP content specifications in December 2025 (operational Fall 2027) and marked its 65th anniversary during 2025–2026; it employs 11–50 staff and is governed by a board representing member jurisdictions rather than by external owners or investors.

Name

Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards

Legal name

Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards

Website

https://asppb.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1960

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ASPPB is a non-profit regulatory association that coordinates U.S. and Canadian psychology licensing boards, administers the standardized EPPP and PEP licensure examinations, and issues portable credentials such as E.Passport and IPC to support interjurisdictional practice.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Licensing and Credentialing Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Certification & Licensing Exam Management Platforms (EDAFADAG)

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Continuing Education (CE/CPD) & Provider Accreditation Bodies (EDADACAF)

Keywords

• Psychology licensure examinations
• Professional credentialing services
• Interjurisdictional practice certificates
• Psychology licensing board membership
• Standardized competency testing

Headquarters

HQ city

Tyrone

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Examination Fees: ASPPB charges registration and examination fees for the EPPP and PEP examinations. Candidates pay for exam registration, retakes, score transfers, and accommodations processing through the PSYHUB platform.
2. Credential Services: Fees for credential banking, E.Passport issuance, IPC certification, CPQ certification, and PLUS application processing.
3. Membership Dues: State and provincial psychology boards pay membership dues to ASPPB for organizational membership, access to guidelines, publications, and collaborative standards development.

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Core offering

ASPPB develops and administers standardized psychology licensure examinations (EPPP and PEP) and operates credentialing services (E.Passport, IPC, CPQ, PLUS, Credential Banking) that enable doctoral-level psychologists to obtain and transfer licensure across U.S. states and Canadian provinces. The organization functions as the central coordinating body for state and provincial psychology licensing boards, delivering these services through its PSYHUB online platform.

Product overview

ASPPB offers a platform of interconnected examination, credential, and licensure services for the psychology profession. The core offerings include the EPPP and PEP examinations for licensure and prescriptive authority, supplemented by credential portability tools (E.Passport, Credential Banking, CPQ) and mobility certificates (IPC). The PLUS system provides universal application processing, while PSYHUB serves as the centralized candidate portal for accessing all services. These products work together to enable consistent licensing standards across U.S. states and Canadian provinces.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• E.Passport: Credential banking system for psychology credentials
• IPC (Interjurisdictional Practice Certificate)
• CPQ (Certificate of Professional Qualification in Psychology)
• PLUS (Psychology Licensure Universal System)
• EPPP (Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology)
• PEP (Psychopharmacology Examination for Psychologists)
• Centre for Data and Analysis on Psychology and Licensure

Products and services

• EPPP (Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology) Standardized licensure examination for psychologists accepted by all U.S. state psychology boards and Canadian provincial psychology regulators, assessing professional practice competency.
• PEP (Psychopharmacology Examination for Psychologists) Examination measuring foundational knowledge needed to administer medications safely and effectively in psychological practice, for psychologists with prescriptive authority.
• E.Passport Digital credential banking system that allows psychologists to store and transfer their professional credentials across jurisdictions.
• IPC (Interjurisdictional Practice Certificate) Certificate enabling psychologists to practice temporarily across state and provincial boundaries within the ASPPB compact.
• PLUS (Psychology Licensure Universal System) Universal application system for psychology licensure, streamlining the application process across multiple jurisdictions.
• CPQ (Certificate of Professional Qualification in Psychology) Credential demonstrating that a psychologist meets uniform national standards for licensure, facilitating mobility between jurisdictions.
• Credential Banking Service allowing psychologists to securely store and manage their professional credentials for efficient retrieval and transfer.
• PSYHUB Online candidate portal providing access to exam registration, scores, accommodations requests, and credential management.

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Broad incumbents

• Prometric: Prometric is the dominant third-party test delivery and proctoring vendor for high-stakes licensure and certification exams across healthcare and other professions. It is a broad incumbent that competes in the test-delivery layer adjacent to ASPPB's PSYHUB platform.
• Educational Testing Service (ETS): ETS is the largest U.S. standardized-testing organization, administering GRE, TOEFL, Praxis (teacher licensing), and many state-contracted professional exams. It is a broad incumbent that competes for state/professional exam-development and delivery contracts that ASPPB's EPPP currently owns.
• Pearson VUE: Pearson VUE is the other dominant global test-delivery network for professional licensure and certification, including many healthcare and behavioral-health exams. A broad incumbent in the same exam-delivery value chain that supports ASPPB's EPPP.

Emerging players

• American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS): ABMS is a non-profit that oversees physician board certification in the U.S. and operates the CertiFACTS and ABMS Solutions credential-verification products. Like ASPPB, it is a member-based credentialing organization with a portable-credential product line, but focused on specialty certification rather than initial licensure.
• Professional Testing Corporation (PTC): PTC is a smaller, niche exam-development and management vendor that develops and administers certification exams for many professional associations. It is an emerging player in the same credentialing-and-testing value chain that ASPPB operates in, with comparable (smaller-scale) product offerings.

Direct peers

• National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): NBCC is the national counselor-certification body that administers the National Counselor Examination (NCE) and the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination (NCMHCE), used by most U.S. states for counselor licensure. A behavioral-health credentialing peer to ASPPB's EPPP.
• Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB): FSMB is the U.S. medical-board equivalent of ASPPB: a non-profit association of state medical and osteopathic licensing boards that administers the USMLE Step examinations (co-owned with NBME), supports credentialing via FCVS, and operates the Physician Data Center of data products. Structurally and functionally the closest analog to ASPPB.
• National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME): NBME co-owns and develops the USMLE examinations alongside FSMB and develops the subject exams for medical schools. NBME is a direct functional peer of ASPPB in the sense that it is the assessment-development and scoring body feeding the licensure system.
• Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB): ASWB is the social-work analog of ASPPB: a non-profit association of U.S./Canadian social work regulatory boards that develops and administers the ASWB licensing examinations and offers a social work license verification system. Closest behavioral-health peer to ASPPB.
• National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN): NCSBN is the nursing-licensure analog to ASPPB: an association of U.S. state boards of nursing that owns the NCLEX examination and the Nursys credential verification system. Same member-board model, same exam-licensing monopoly, same portable-credentialing architecture.

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Customer concentration

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