Texas RxP

28/04/2025

MYTH: Telehealth alone will fix the provider shortage.
TRUTH: Telehealth helps—but doesn’t create new providers. Prescribing psychologists do.

Be part of the solution.
Reach out to your lawmakers now and advocate for expanded prescribing authority.
texaspsyc.org/page/89-legislative-priorities

25/04/2025

Prescribing psychologists help bridge the mental health provider gap by improving access to care, patient outcomes, and delivering care safely and effectively, as seen in NM and LA for over 20 years.

Help us advance this solution in Texas—contact your legislators today! All the tools you need (script, letter, legislator lookup) are here: https://www.texaspsyc.org/page/89-legislative-priorities NAMI NAMI North Texas NAMI Texas

19/04/2025

Please contact your legislators!!

Advocacy Alert!

We’re excited to share that the two proactive initiatives on TPA’s legislative agenda have secured bill sponsors and have been referred to committees. Now, it’s time to take the next step — engage in advocacy to help move these bills to a full floor vote!

Contact your legislators, especially if they serve on the House Public Health or Senate HHS Committees.

All the tools you need (script, letter, legislator lookup) are here: texaspsyc.org/page/89-legislative-priorities
NAMI Texas

15/04/2025

Please follow the link to do what you can to support a bill to allow specially trained psychologists to prescribe and deprescribe medication for mental health disorders in Texas!! Texas deserves to have more expert prescribers in mental health, their area of expertise! Please share and let your TX legislstors know!!!

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22/10/2024

18/10/2024

Texas is ranked 51st, which includes the District of Columbia, in the recent study measuring access to mental health care according to the State of Mental Health in America linked below:

https://mhanational.org/sites/default/files/2024-State-of-Mental-Health-in-America-Report.pdf

Texas RxP can help address this problem!

18/10/2024

Dr. Cheryl Hall, licensed psychologist in Texas and conditional prescribing psychologist in New Mexico, testifies at the Senate HHS Committee Hearing Sept. 18, 2024. She emphasizes the critical need for prescribing psychologists in Texas and the significantly increased benefits of combining psychotherapy with medication to treat mental health issues.

27/09/2024

Below is an excerpt from Dr. Talebi's outstanding response to Chair Kolkhorst during the HHS meeting. Dr. Talebi emphasizes the research and effectiveness of psychotherapy, the benefits of having a professional provide both psychotherapy and pharmacological treatment, the extensive training prescribing psychologists receive, and the increase in states authorizing RxP.

You can access the full hearing here at https://senate.texas.gov/videoplayer.php?vid=20569&lang=en

27/09/2024

Senate HHS Committee Hearing
September 18, 2024

For the first time in 24 years, TPA psychologists were able to testify to the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and be heard on the potential impact of RxP in increasing access to needed mental health care in our state.

TPA President, Dr. Hani Talebi, provided an outstanding background of RxP during his invited testimony and Dr. Cheryl Hall was able to elaborate on her experience as a conditional prescribing psychologist in NM. Dr. Carol Grothues added that a number of prescribing psychologists work in Texas today in the military and many have been trained for over 2 decades waiting for this bill to pass in order to be available to start providing services quickly.

17/09/2024

The Texas Psychological Association has been invited to testify at the Senate HHS meeting tomorrow. TPA President Hani Talebi will be providing the current research in support of RxP. Dr. Cheryl Hall, a Texas psychologist currently licensed as a conditional prescribing psychologist in New Mexico, will also provide public testimony of her training and experience.

We appreciate the Texas Senate for addressing this critical topic and believe that RxP can and should be part of the solution.