Alaska at a glance
| Rule | Alaska | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| PSYPACT (psychologists) | Yes | 8 October 2026 |
| Counseling Compact (counselors) | No | 8 October 2026 |
| Social Work Licensure Compact | Enacted, not issuing licenses yet | 8 October 2026 |
| Health-data or health geofencing law | None | 30 September 2026 |
| Privacy law treating health data as sensitive | None | 30 September 2026 |
Alaska licensing boards’ advertising rules
Ads, websites and directory profiles all count as advertising to a licensing board. These are the Alaska rules we check copy against, with links to the official text. Boards update their rules, so read the current version before you rely on a summary.
Alaska health care practitioners (AS 08.02.110)
- Listed licensees, including professional counselors, marital and family therapists, physicians, psychologists and clinical social workers, must show letters or a title after their name identifying their field of practice on all signs, stationery and other advertising for their services. (Alaska Stat. 08.02.110(a))
Alaska State Medical Board
- The board may sanction a licensee who advertised professional services in a false or misleading manner. (Alaska Stat. 08.64.326(a)(3))
Alaska Board of Professional Counselors
- The board may discipline a licensed counselor who used an advertisement or solicitation that is false, misleading or deceptive to the general public or to the person it was primarily directed at. (Alaska Stat. 08.29.400(a)(10))
Telehealth across Alaska's borders
Alaska is a PSYPACT state. A psychologist whose home license is in Alaska can apply for PSYPACT's telepsychology authorization and then see clients by telehealth in the other PSYPACT states, so ads can reach clients there too.
Alaska has not enacted the Counseling Compact, so a counselor licensed here needs a separate license for each other state.
It has also enacted the Social Work Licensure Compact, which isn't issuing multistate licenses yet; the compact's commission expects its licensing system in 2027.
For physicians, psychiatrists included, Alaska has passed the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, but the compact lists its implementation as still in process or delayed, so for now a doctor needs an Alaska license through the usual route.
Telehealth ads should only reach places where the clinician can legally treat: see PSYPACT and Counseling Compact states.
Practices near a state line often see clients from next door. Washington, Oregon and Hawaii each have their own page.
Health data, tracking and Alaska law
Alaska has no comprehensive consumer privacy law or consumer health data law in effect as of 30 September 2026. Federal rules and a practice's own HIPAA duties still apply.
This is not legal advice.
How the states compare: state health-data laws.
What patients search for in Alaska
Searches a month that name an Alaska city, with the average cost per click, from Ahrefs (checked between 30 September and 5 October 2026). A dash means too few to measure; “near me” searches aren't counted. The Statewide row is searches that name the state.
| City | Therapist | Psychiatrist | Ketamine | Weight loss | GI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage | 150 $5.00 | 100 $3.00 | 40 | 40 | 100 $3.00 |
| Statewide | – | 40 | 100 $3.00 | – | – |
| Fairbanks | 30 | 50 $3.50 | – | – | – |
Of the cities measured, Anchorage gets the most of these searches. Its biggest single search, “therapist anchorage”, gets about 150 a month. To turn a cost per click into a cost per booked patient, put your own numbers into the patient acquisition cost calculator.
Across the searches measured here, Alaska patients look most for psychiatrists (about 190 a month), then therapists (180). Anchorage alone accounts for 66% of them. A click on a psychiatrist search here costs about $3.17 on average, close to the $3.00 median across the 274 psychiatrist searches measured on our state pages.
Fill The Lobby is a remote US healthcare marketing agency; the ads and pages we write for practices are checked against rules like these. See how we handle compliance.
Sources
- PSYPACT, compact map, checked 8 October 2026
- Counseling Compact, member map, checked 8 October 2026
- Counseling Compact, 10 states now offering privileges, checked 8 October 2026
- Counseling Compact, Pennsylvania becomes the 40th member, checked 8 October 2026
- Social Work Licensure Compact, enacted in 35 states, checked 8 October 2026
- Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, participating states, checked 14 October 2026
- IAPP, US State Privacy Legislation Tracker, checked 30 September 2026
- Ahrefs Keywords Explorer, US search volumes and cost per click, checked 30 September 2026
- Alaska health care practitioners (AS 08.02.110), checked 5 October 2026
- Alaska State Medical Board, checked 5 October 2026
- Alaska Board of Professional Counselors, checked 5 October 2026