LMFTAssociate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT) or MFT trainee
- Up to 1,300 pre-degree hours can count
- 500 hours with couples, families and children
- Non-clinical cap 1,250
- Post-degree hours only
- Couples and families without add-on training since 2022
- Non-clinical cap 1,250
- 3,000 hours (not 3,200) since 2019
- 1,700 hours and 13 weeks with an LCSW
- Non-clinical cap 1,000
What all three share
- 3,000 supervised hours over at least 104 weeks, with at most 40 hours in any week.
- At least one unit of supervision in every week you claim hours, in each work setting, and one more in a week with over 10 hours of direct work in a setting; at most six hours of supervision count per week.
- At least 52 weeks of individual or triadic supervision.
- Video supervision in any setting (permanent since 1 January 2026); telephone never counts.
- The 90-day rule: post-degree hours before your registration count only if the Board gets your application within 90 days of your degree and, for graduates since 2020, your employer required Live Scan first.
- Hours must be from the six years before you apply; a bill on the Governor’s desk would make that seven.
- Weekly logs are kept; Experience Verifications are sent with your licensure application.
Checked against the Board of Behavioral Sciences and the Business and Professions Code on 24 September 2026. The Board decides; if your situation is unusual, confirm with them.