N.C. Gen. Stat. § 8-53.8
Counselor privilege
North Carolina · North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 8 — Chapter 8. · Status: effective
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- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 8-53.8, Counselor privilege, North Carolina, version 1 as recorded 2026-08-18, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/1306641
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Counselor privilege. No person, duly licensed pursuant to Chapter 90, Article 24, of the General Statutes, shall be required to disclose any information which he or she may have acquired in rendering clinical mental health counseling services, and which information was necessary to enable him or her to render clinical mental health counseling services: Provided, that the presiding judge of a superior or district court may compel such disclosure, if in the court's opinion the same is necessary to a proper administration of justice and such disclosure is not prohibited by other statute or regulation. (1983, c. 755, s. 2; 1993, c. 514, s. 2; 2019-240, s. 3(a).)