For California associates · AMFT, ASW and APCC
California associate hours, jobs and next steps.
In short
What do I need while I am a registered associate in California?
Choose an AMFT, ASW or APCC hours planner, then find work and application resources
Three registration-specific starting pointsChoose your registration below for hours planning, then explore jobs, pay and the next application steps.
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Choose your registrationAMFT quick checkWhat this room asksStart here31 selected resourcesThe rules behind it
Choose your registration
Start with your own hours planner.
Choose the tool labeled for your registration. Each page explains its categories, assumptions and sources.
AMFT quick check
Check the AMFT totals in your log.
This quick check uses AMFT categories. For ASW or APCC planning, use the links above. Numbers entered in this quick check are calculated on this page and are not saved.
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The relational requirement is marked because it is the one people reach 3,000 without: 500 hours with couples, families and children, inside the 1,750. Everything here is your arithmetic, not the Board’s record.
The four requirements, and where they come from
3,000 hours over at least 104 weeks, of which at least 1,750 are direct clinical counseling and at least 500 of those are with couples, families and children. No more than 40 hours in any seven days, and no more than 1,250 of nonclinical time.
All of it is § 4980.43(c). The full arithmetic, including what happens to hours gained before your degree, is on the calculator and the practicum page.
What this room asks
Three questions, and the pages that answer them.
Taken from the shape of what actually gets posted in the pre-licensed groups, not from a taxonomy. Nobody is quoted and nobody is identified.
“Hundreds of hours in, and nobody will hire me.”
It is a billing rule, not your hour count.
Medi-Cal names registered associates as a billable staff type. Most commercial payers do not, which is why the jobs are concentrated where they are — and it has nothing to do with how far along you are.
Read it →“Am I supposed to be doing this unpaid?”
The wage claim is a real one, and the Board is not where you file it.
Non-clinical time an employer requires is time worked. The claim goes to the Labor Commissioner, there is a form, and there is a deadline.
Read it →“Will hours from another state count?”
Yes, with conditions — and the Board has answered this five times.
The answer sits in a PDF nobody links to. What travels, what does not, and what your supervisor has to be.
Read it →Start here
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Written for AMFTs. Where a rule differs for an ASW or an APCC, the page says so and links to the difference.
31 selected resources
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Your hours, and what counts toward them
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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.
Where every figure came from
Sources.
The rule behind the bar
This page is a door, not a record. Every figure you enter is computed in your browser and nothing is stored or sent — reload the page and it is gone. It is your arithmetic against the statute, and it is not the Board’s count of your hours; only your supervisor’s signed forms are that. Written for AMFTs, with the differences for ASWs and APCCs on the pages linked above. Nothing here is legal advice.
