Reference · the Board’s own forms, read 5 September 2026

The Board’s paperwork for the MFT path: sixteen forms, and which ones you keep.

From the associate application to the license issuance, each Board form with its number and revision date, who completes it, whether it is kept or submitted, and the regulation that makes it so. The weekly log is kept and never sent unless asked; the Supervision Agreement is signed within 60 days, kept, and sent with the license application; the oversight letter is signed before the first hour. The fees are the ones printed on the forms.

Form by form →

16 Board forms on the MFT path60 days to sign the Supervision Agreement, 16 CCR §1833(c)5 of them kept rather than submittedSource-linked · assumptions visible

Form by form

Sixteen documents in four stages, from the Board’s LMFT applicants page.

Each row links the Board’s PDF as posted on 5 September 2026. The number and revision date are the ones printed on the form; if the Board’s page shows a later revision, the Board’s copy governs. The LCSW and LPCC paths use their own forms on the same pattern and are not listed here.

Registering as an associate

Form	Who completes it	Kept or submitted	What it does, and the rule
Application for Associate Marriage and Family Therapist Registration (in-state) 37A-580, rev. 05/2025	You; your school completes the certification inside it	Submitted, with the fee	The packet that starts the associate registration: instructions, checklist, the application, the two degree-program certification forms and the Live Scan forms. Apply within 90 days of the degree award date on the transcript to count experience gained immediately after graduating (the 90-day rule). The packet says not to submit pre-degree hours with it. Fee $75 when postmarked on or after 1 July 2026; $150 before.
In-State Degree Program Certification, Form A 37A-600, rev. 08/2024	Your school	Submitted in the school’s sealed envelope, or emailed by the school to the Board	For applicants who began graduate study before 1 August 2012 and finished on or before 31 December 2018 in a program not designed to the 2012 requirements; it verifies the degree meets B&P §4980.37. The Board recommends getting a copy and reading it before applying, to see whether the degree qualifies.
In-State Degree Program Certification, Form B 37A-601, rev. 08/2024	Your school	Submitted in the school’s sealed envelope, or emailed by the school to the Board	For everyone else: graduate study begun on or after 1 August 2012, or begun earlier and not finished by the end of 2018. Verifies the degree meets B&P §4980.36. Transferred-in units need the school’s letter of explanation.
Live Scan instructions and Request for Live Scan Service 37A-648, rev. 06/2020	You, then the Live Scan operator completes section 4	Taken to the Live Scan site; copies returned to you	Fingerprints go to the DOJ and FBI electronically; the DOJ fee is $32 and the FBI fee $17, paid to the site, plus the site’s own charge. Section 3 must match the application. Outside California, hard cards by request, with an 8-to-12-week minimum. The Board’s tips sheet notes this is a different Live Scan from the one an employer runs.

While you gain hours

Form	Who completes it	Kept or submitted	What it does, and the rule
Supervision Agreement between the supervisor and supervisee 37M-300, rev. 05/2026	Supervisor and supervisee together, under penalty of perjury	Kept by you; submitted with the license application	Required for supervisory relationships begun on or after 1 January 2022, for every supervisor (primary or not), and completed within 60 days of the start of supervision (16 CCR §1833(c)). Eleven pages: the supervisor’s qualifications, the affirmations about registration, settings, employment and direct supervisor contact, the supervisee’s affirmations, and the supervisory plan developed together. The form warns that a failure to comply can cost hours.
Supervision Agreement: Index of Legal Citations 37M-301, rev. 05/2026	Nobody; it is a reference	Kept	The companion that gives the statute or regulation behind each line of the agreement. Read it beside the agreement before signing.
Sample Written Oversight Agreement for Supervision rev. 01/2022	Your employer and your supervisor, on the employer’s letterhead	Signed before hours are gained; submitted with the license application	Required when the supervisor is not employed by your employer or is a volunteer (B&P §4980.43.4; 16 CCR §1833(a)). The employer agrees to the supervisor’s access to clinical records and not to interfere with the supervision; the supervisor takes responsibility for the services. The Board’s text is a sample; the letter must be signed and dated before the first hour under that supervisor.
Weekly Log of Experience Hours 37A-525, rev. 08/2022	You, signed by the supervisor each week	Kept until you are licensed; do not submit unless the Board asks	One log per supervisor and per work setting. Columns: direct counseling (with the diagnosis-and-treatment-of-couples-families-children subcategory), non-clinical experience (with individual and group or triadic supervision as subcategories), and the weekly total. 16 CCR §1833(d): signed weekly, retained until licensed, and the Board may require any or all of it to verify hours. The trackers compared on this site are judged partly on whether their export reproduces this form.
Responsibility Statement for Supervisors of an MFT Trainee or Associate 37A-523, rev. 01/2020	The supervisor, under penalty of perjury; the original goes to you	Kept; submitted with the license application for relationships that began before 1 January 2022	The pre-2022 instrument. 16 CCR §1833(c)(2): a supervisory relationship that existed before 1 January 2022 does not need a supervision agreement; the supervisee submits “the previously required signed supervisor responsibility statement” with the license application, plus a supervisory plan.
Supervisory Plan for LMFT Supervisees 37M-299, rev. 06/2022	Supervisor and supervisee together	Kept by both; not submitted	Only for relationships established before 1 January 2022 that continued past it; relationships since then use the plan inside the Supervision Agreement. Goals and objectives of supervision, and the supervisor’s acknowledgment of the yearly assessment duty (16 CCR §1833.1(a)(9)).
Sample Verification of Employment as a Volunteer rev. 01/2019	Your employer, on letterhead	Submitted with the license application	Required when the associate worked as a volunteer: the employer verifies the dates of volunteer service. Pair it with the Experience Verification’s question on pay, which for paid associates asks for the W-2 for each year claimed.

Renewing or re-registering

Form	Who completes it	Kept or submitted	What it does, and the rule
Application for Subsequent AMFT Registration 37A-590a, rev. 08/2026	You	Submitted, with the $75 fee	For an associate whose first registration reaches its final expiration: not more than 90 days before that date, and not before passing the LMFT California Law and Ethics Exam (B&P §4980.399). The packet states the private-practice bar in its own capitals: a subsequent registrant may not work in a private practice or professional corporation (§4984.01), all other settings permitted. From 1 January 2027, AB 1598 (Chapter 528) adds a one-time, two-year hardship exception for one named practice; the clocks calculator carries both sets of dates.

Applying for the license

Form	Who completes it	Kept or submitted	What it does, and the rule
Application for Licensure, LMFT (in-state) 37A-318, rev. 06/2026	You; the Experience Verification inside it is completed by each supervisor	Submitted, with the $250 fee ($125 evaluation, $125 clinical exam)	Use it when the hours are complete and ready for evaluation to qualify for the clinical exam; it may be submitted before the Law and Ethics exam is passed. The packet restates the window: experience gained within the six years before the Board receives the application, except 500 practicum hours; from 1 January 2027, under AB 1598, seven years. The originals of the Supervision Agreement, the oversight agreement and the volunteer letter travel with it.
In-State Experience Verification 37A-301, rev. 11/2024	Each California supervisor; you submit it	Submitted with the license application	The completed-hours documentation 16 CCR §1833(e) requires at the end of supervision: one per supervisor and per setting, pre-degree and post-degree on separate forms, the supervisor’s license and dates, whether the setting was a private practice, whether the associate was paid (with W-2s), whether the supervisor was employed by your employer or signed the oversight agreement. Supervisors initial changes. Weekly logs are not attached unless requested.
Application for Initial LMFT California Clinical Examination 37A-299, rev. 07/2026	You	Submitted, with the $125 fee, by the two kinds of applicant it names	Only for an applicant who never held an associate registration and has passed the Law and Ethics exam, or who submitted the licensure application without the clinical exam fee; everyone else pays the exam fee inside the licensure application. The email address on file in BreEZe is where eligibility arrives. Processing four to six weeks, per the form.
Application for Initial License Issuance 37M-308, rev. 07/2026	You	Submitted, with the $100 fee, within one year of passing the exams	The last form. It can be accepted only after the required exams are passed, and it must arrive with the fee within one year of the notice that the exam requirements are met; otherwise the file is abandoned and a new licensure application, fee and the current requirements apply. Anyone who ever held an associate registration may file it online through BreEZe.

Fees as printed on the forms: associate application $75 postmarked on or after 1 July 2026 ($150 before); licensure application $250 ($125 evaluation plus $125 clinical exam); subsequent registration $75; initial license issuance $100; Live Scan $32 DOJ and $17 FBI paid at the site. The fee calculator carries the same figures.

The pattern

One regulation decides which forms you keep and which you send.

§1833(d)The weekly log is kept, signed every week, and produced only on demand.

“Supervisees shall maintain a weekly log of all hours of experience gained toward licensure. The log of hours shall be signed by the supervisor on a weekly basis. The supervisee shall retain the signed logs until such time as the supervisee is licensed by the board. The board shall have the right to require an applicant for licensure to submit all or such portions of the logs as it deems necessary to verify hours of experience.” The form itself says: do not submit unless specifically requested.

§1833(c)The Supervision Agreement is signed within 60 days, kept, and sent with the application.

“Within 60 days of the commencement of any supervision, the supervisor and supervisee shall sign a supervision agreement … under penalty of perjury. The original signed supervisory agreement shall be retained by the supervisee and submitted to the board with the supervisee’s application for licensure.” Relationships that began before 1 January 2022 use the responsibility statement and a supervisory plan instead ((c)(2)).

§1833(a)The oversight agreement is signed before the first hour.

Where the supervisor is not the employer’s employee, or volunteers: “The written oversight agreement shall be executed and signed prior to commencement of supervision”, the supervisor provides it to the supervisee at the end, and “the supervisee shall submit the agreement to the board upon application for licensure.” The Board’s sample is a letter on the employer’s letterhead.

§1833(e)The hours are documented once, at the end, by the supervisor.

“Completed hours of experience shall be documented at the completion or termination of supervision”, with the supervisor’s license and telephone, the employer, whether the setting complied with §4980.43.3 and §4980.43.4, employment or volunteer status, the hours by category, the supervision provided, the dates, and “the supervisor’s signature under penalty of perjury.” That is the Experience Verification, 37A-301.

§1833.1(b)A supervisor who stops signing owes a week’s written notice.

“A supervisor shall give at least one (1) week’s prior written notice to a supervisee of the supervisor’s intent not to sign for any further hours of experience for such person.” The log and the agreement are what the notice is about.

Then what

The pages that use these forms.

The hours

3,000 hours as an AMFT

What counts, the weekly caps, the six-year window the log has to prove.

The log, kept for you

Associate hours trackers, compared

Which apps produce the Board’s weekly log and the totals the verification needs.

The supervisor

The supervisor eligibility and arrangement check

Screen the license, the relationship, the setting and the 60-day agreement before relying on the hours.

The application

The LMFT application checklist

What goes in the envelope, in order.

Where every figure came from

Sources.

The forms, as posted by the Board

The rules behind them

Every form was downloaded from bbs.ca.gov on 5 September 2026 and its own instructions read; numbers, revision dates and fees are as printed. Forms are revised without notice, and the Board’s page is the copy that counts. This page covers the MFT forms; the LCSW and LPCC sets follow the same regulation with their own numbers. Not legal advice.