Florida massage therapist license lookup.

Where Florida massage therapy sits

Florida’s Department of Health Division of Medical Quality Assurance (MQA) runs a single search portal for the health professions it licenses. The portal’s Board/Council list includes a Board of Massage Therapy, alongside boards for medicine, nursing, dentistry and others. Its Profession list includes three massage-related entries: Massage Therapist, Massage Establishment and Board-approved Massage Therapy School. So the same search is used to check a person, a business or a school.

That is a useful distinction. A spa or clinic that offers massage can hold an establishment licence, and the therapists who work there each hold their own. Checking one does not check the other, and a clean establishment record says nothing about a particular therapist.

The fields the portal offers

The portal’s search form lists these fields: Board/Council, Profession, License Number, Business Name, Last Name, First Name, City, County, Zip Code and License Status. The portal tells users to complete one or more search fields and to use fewer fields to produce more results. The Business Name field is labelled for establishments, and the same field takes the last name for a practitioner.

That last point catches people out: if you are looking for a person but type a business name, or the reverse, you can get an empty result for a record that exists.

Entering a licence number

The portal gives a specific rule for the number field: enter the licence prefix and the licence number with no spaces, leading zeros or colons. Its own example is ME99999 or ME069999; the pages we read do not say which prefix massage therapists use, so take the exact prefix from the licence itself. Copy it as printed, remove spaces and any leading zeros in the number portion, and try again if the first attempt returns nothing. The portal also shows a “No records found” message and asks you to try other search values.

Reading the status filter

The portal lets you filter by status in three ways: all statuses, practising statuses only, or non-practising statuses only. It gives Clear, Military, Obligations and Probation as examples of practising statuses, and Null and Void, Retired and Closed as examples of non-practising ones. The filter is therefore worth setting to “All statuses” the first time, so that an inactive or lapsed record is shown rather than hidden. Seeing a record under a non-practising status is itself the answer to a common question: the person holds a record, but it is not a current licence to practise.

A worked example (hypothetical)

A client in Orlando is booking a clinic and wants to check the therapist. She opens the MQA portal, selects Board of Massage Therapy and Massage Therapist, enters the last and first name, and leaves the status on all. She sees one record with a practising status and notes the date she looked. She then searches the clinic’s name under Massage Establishment and finds a separate record. If the therapist’s record had shown Null and Void or Retired, she would have asked the clinic about it before booking. No real person is described.

Other compacts on the same page

The portal’s notice tells users how to verify two things it does not itself cover: a Nurse Licensure Compact multi-state RN or LPN licence goes through NURSYS, and authorisations under the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact go through PSYPACT. Neither applies to massage, but the notice shows that the portal is the state-licence search and not a national one.

What this page does not cover

We read the portal’s search page but did not run a search, so we do not describe how a result looks, what each status means in law, or what a therapist must do to be licensed. We did not read the Florida Board of Massage Therapy’s own pages, so renewal cycles, education hours and fees are not covered, and we publish no massage licence-number format. Confirm with the Department of Health for anything that matters.

Sources

Read November 2, 2026. The portal page was opened and checked against the claim next to it.

• Florida DOH MQA Search Portal: License Verification: the Board/Council and Profession lists, the search fields, the licence-number entry rule and example, the status filter and the NURSYS and PSYPACT notice.