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Licensure, supervision and running a practice

Practical tools for California therapists.

For LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, associates and students. Plan renewal, check supervision, compare work and pay, and prepare your next practice decision.

California-specificBBS, state law and local economics
Decision-firstTools and next steps, not generic advice
Checked to sourceReview dates and controlling references
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Get the work done.

Choose a tool, check the assumptions and follow the official source. Start with the license or registration that applies to you.

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Make your next career or practice decision.

Compare education, understand costs and find the requirements that apply to you. Each guide connects the question to tools and sources.

Useful today. More useful over time.

Come back when the rule, rate or decision changes.

Build a private on-device path from your license stage, county, working pace and goals. It turns the library into a short list and can be exported whenever you want to move or back it up.

Cannot find it?

Ask, and the answer becomes a page.

This site grows by what people cannot find. A question that reaches us gets researched against the statute and the Board’s own documents, and the answer is published here for the next person who has it.

Nothing else is collected, and the question is not published with your name. Please do not include client details.

Received. If it can be answered from a checkable source, it becomes a page.

You should not have to work this part out on your own.

Once a month: free tools and apps worth having, better ways to run the admin side of a practice, what other California therapists are actually doing, and anything new here that might save you an afternoon.

About monthly. One click to leave. Never sold, never shared. The consent box is separate and unticked because California requires it — and because it should be.