Thirty hours today. Forty hours soon. If you are a licensed psychologist in Wyoming, that is the headline, and the gap between the two numbers is where planning pays off.
Through the 2027 cycle, Wyoming psychologists complete at least 30 hours of CE every two years. Licenses renew annually, but the requirement is measured across a two-year window, which already confuses people. At least 10 of those hours must be APA- or NASP-approved; up to 20 can come from WPA/WSPA-approved activities.
The 2028 jump
Beginning with the 2028 cycle, the total climbs to 40 hours, and two new mandated categories appear inside it: at least 3 hours of ethics and at least 3 hours of risk assessment or risk management per two-year period. That is a 33 percent increase in raw hours plus two subjects you now have to deliberately seek out rather than absorb incidentally.
The Wyoming Board of Psychology publishes the renewal rules, and because this is a future change still settling into place, you should confirm the exact language with the Wyoming Board of Psychology before relying on it.
Why the ethics and risk hours matter more than the extra ten
Ten additional generic hours is an annoyance. Two newly mandated subjects is a compliance trap, because you can finish 40 hours and still be short if none of them were specifically ethics or risk management. Ethics is the near-universal behavioral-health mandate — almost every profession requires it — so those hours are easy to find. Risk assessment and risk management is narrower, so build that one into your plan early.
If you want to understand why states keep bolting subject mandates onto existing totals, the state-by-state variation explainer covers the legislative mechanics, and the one-time versus recurring breakdown explains why Wyoming's new hours recur every cycle rather than being a single course.
The annual-renewal, biennial-requirement wrinkle
Renewing every year but counting hours over two years is its own headache. You can be current on your annual renewal and still be building toward a two-year total. Washington psychologists deal with a similar mismatch on a three-year cycle with annual renewals, and the same discipline applies: track against the longer requirement window, not the renewal prompt. The general principle shows up again in why your CME deadline and license expiration are not always the same date.
How to bridge into 2028 cleanly
Treat 40 hours as your working target starting now, even though the rule is not technically live until 2028. Make sure 3 of them are ethics and 3 are risk-related each two-year stretch. If you front-load those mandated subjects, the transition costs you nothing. Wyoming does not offer carryover, so this is about pacing rather than banking — the same lesson that applies across the states changing rules in this window, including Oregon's 2028 RN rule and Colorado's first-ever physician CME in 2027.
For the full slate of upcoming changes, see our 2026-to-2028 roundup.
Where we fit
If you would rather not track the moving target yourself, White Glove CME maps Wyoming's current and upcoming psychologist requirements against your renewal date for a flat $99 per license renewal. We build the plan; we do not award CE credit and we never log into your board account — planning only. See what the flat fee covers or tell us your renewal month. You can also review our Wyoming psychologist requirements page or the broader list for psychologists by state.
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