For therapists in training
Every state, every license, sourced.
Supervised hours, supervision, time limits and exams for counselors, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers and psychologists in all 50 states, plus where you can be supervised by video. Pick your state to see its rules in the board’s own words.
- Every rule sourced to the state board
- Checked and dated
- Made by Practice Harbor
Supervised hours required
Counselor · tap a state
- under 2,000
- 2,000–2,999
- 3,000
- over 3,000
- direct-contact minimum, not a total
- time-based, no hour total
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The path to your license, in plain English.
What your license actually requires in every state, how supervision works, when your hours start counting, and which forms to keep, with every rule sourced to the state board and dated.
Log your hours. Earn your license. Hang your shingle.
Become a therapist
The whole path in 23 steps, from choosing a license and a program to exams, supervised hours and your first job.
Start the pathWhat your license requires
California in depth: LMFT, LPCC and LCSW hours, supervision, the 90-day rule, forms and exams, sourced to the Board and dated.
Read the California guidesFind a supervisor
A directory of licensed supervisors, with licenses checked with the state board. Coming soon; supervisors can list now.
Supervisors: list yourselfTrack your hours
Practice Harbor is free while you are pre-licensed. It counts your clinical hours from the sessions you mark as attended, and you can add outside hours by hand.
See the free EHR for pre-licensed cliniciansWhy this exists
The years between graduate school and licensure come with a rulebook scattered across statutes, regulations, handbooks, FAQs and forms, several of which disagree with each other and some of which are out of date. Most associates learn the rules from whoever trained before them.
Here every requirement is taken from the state board’s own rules, statutes and publications, with the source and the date we checked it. Where a board’s own documents disagree, we say so.
Sourced, dated, and not the board.
Becoming Licensed is made by Practice Harbor and is not affiliated with any state licensing board. We cite the board for every rule and date every check, but the board decides; confirm anything situational with them.