Requirements

See the official BBS requirements for your pathway, with your progress on every row.

Requirements is a mirror of the official BBS requirements matrix for your pathway, with your current totals overlaid on each row. It's the reference you check when you want the exact numbers, straight from the rules, rather than a summary.

The page states which rule set it's using — for example, "based on the AB 93 supervision rules that apply to your active pathway" — because the numbers depend on your license type and your degree vintage.

How to read it

Requirements are grouped into sections, and every row shows the same columns: minimum, maximum, your total, and status.

Minimum — the least you must accrue (a dash means no minimum).
Maximum — a cap, beyond which extra hours stop counting (a dash means no cap).
Your total — where you stand right now.
Status — Met, Short, or Outstanding (for coursework and exams you haven't recorded yet).

What's on the matrix

For an LMFT pathway, the sections look like this. Yours mirror your own license, so treat these as an illustration of the shape, not universal numbers:

Hours — total supervised experience (a 3,000-hour minimum), direct counseling hours (a 1,750-hour minimum), the couples, families, and children subcategory (500 hours, counted inside direct counseling), and a non-clinical maximum (1,250 hours).
Hours by supervisor type — how much may come from each supervisor license, including caps such as a 1,200-hour maximum from an LEP supervisor.
Supervised weeks — a total supervised-weeks minimum (104) and an individual or triadic supervision minimum (52 weeks).
Required coursework and Examinations — the extra items the BBS requires alongside hours, with their legal references.

Each section ends with the sources it's drawn from — the BBS applicant guide, handbook, and the governing legislation — so you can verify any number against the board directly.

Gotchas

Maximums are as real as minimums. It's easy to focus on hitting the 3,000-hour total and overlook that non-clinical hours stop counting past their cap. Hours over a maximum don't move you forward. Balance as you go.

"Met" on one row doesn't mean you're done. Every row has to clear before your experience is submission-ready. A green status on supervised weeks says nothing about your direct counseling hours.
Coursework and exams count too. The Suicide Risk, Telehealth, and Law and Ethics items are BBS requirements, not extras. They show as Outstanding until you record them.

FAQ

Where do these numbers come from? Directly from the California BBS rules for your pathway. Each section cites its sources, and bbs.ca.gov is the authoritative reference.

Why are my requirements different from another associate's? Because requirements depend on license type (LCSW, LMFT, LPCC) and on whether you graduated before or after the January 1, 2020 AB 93 changes.

What's the difference between Requirements and Validation? Requirements is the static matrix — the targets. Validation checks your actual logged events against those targets and the weekly rules, and tells you what to fix.