Instructions for Licensure Application

Step 1: Select Your Applicant Type

 

• Initial/Examination CAPTE Graduate

If you are a new graduate of a CAPTE accredited Physical Therapy or Physical Therapist Assistant Program and you have never been licensed in another state or US Territory by temporary or permanent license and have never taken a US administered national physical therapy or physical therapy assistant licensing examination. 

• Initial/Examination Foreign Educated

If you have been educated and graduated from a school of physical therapy outside the United States that is not CAPTE accredited and you have never been licensed in another state or US Territory by temporary or permanent license and have never taken a US administered national physical therapy or physical therapy assistant licensing examination. 

• Reciprocity for PTs and PTAs (Non-Foreign Educated Therapists)

If you have ever held a temporary or permanent license in another US state and have taken a US administered national physical therapy or physical therapy assistant licensing exam.

• Reciprocity for Foreign Educated Physical Therapists

If you have been educated and graduated from a school of physical therapy outside the United States that is not CAPTE accredited and have ever held a temporary or permanent license in another US state and have taken a US administered national physical therapy or physical therapy assistant licensing exam. 

• Reinstatement

If you have been previously licensed in Louisiana, but have allowed your license to expire.

 

 

No individual may begin clinical practice without a Provisional License/License