Your pathway

Review your license type, registrations, 90-day rule dates, and the coursework and exams that go with them.

Pathway is where the facts that shape your requirements live. As the page puts it: your licensure pathway is determined by your registration and degree completion, and you edit those facts to change which rules apply.

Your current pathway

The top card names your pathway — for example, "California LMFT" — and states the rule set: "Your supervised hours are evaluated under the AB 93 supervision rules." Every California pathway in Licentio runs on those rules; the card notes that they apply given your degree completion date.

Also here, once you've cleared them: the BBS registration prerequisites you met before the board issued your registration (qualifying degree, application, fee, Live Scan, criminal history disclosure, Degree Program Certification), as a dismissible reference card.

Your registrations

Your associate registration anchors when your hours start counting. This section shows each registration you've held, with its number, issue and expiration dates, and status (Active, Expired, Lapsed, or Superseded), with Edit registration on the active row and Add renewed registration below.

Licentio keeps an eye on the dates for you. Within a year of expiry it shows Plan your renewal soon with the days remaining; within 90 days, Your registration expires soon; after the date, Your registration has expired, and hours logged after it won't count until you capture a renewed registration. If your oldest qualifying hours are about to fall out of the BBS six-year window, a banner says how many hours expire and when. Associates on a subsequent registration see a reminder that the private-practice restriction applies. See Correct or renew your registration.

Qualifying degree

The Qualifying degree card holds your Degree completion date — when your qualifying graduate degree was awarded. To correct it, enter the right date and select Save degree date.

It's worth getting right. The date is the earliest day your supervised experience can count, and it sets your 90-day application deadline. It applies to your record as a whole, so it doesn't matter how many registrations you've held — you fix it once, here. Saving rechecks your pathway and your 90-day rule dates against the new date. If a correction crosses January 1, 2020, the Employer Live Scan date field in 90-day rule eligibility appears or disappears to match.

90-day rule eligibility

If you earned supervision hours between your degree date and the day the BBS issued your associate number, two dates decide whether those hours count:

Application received date — when the BBS received your Application for Licensure. It starts the 90-day clock.
Employer Live Scan date — the date on your employer-required Live Scan form. Hours can only count under this rule from this date forward.

Enter them here and select Save dates. There's a link to the BBS 90-day rule document if you want the source.

Coursework and exams

The same coursework and exams from your dashboard appear here — Suicide Risk Assessment, Telehealth, and the California Law and Ethics Exam — each with its legal reference, so your pathway view is complete in one place.

Gotchas

Your registration dates drive what counts. Hours before your registration was issued count only under the 90-day rule, and hours after it expires don't count until you record a renewal. If your numbers ever look surprising, check these dates before assuming anything else is broken.

Renewal isn't automatic. The banner is a prompt, not an action. Get your renewal or Subsequent Registration paperwork moving with the BBS well before your expiration date, then record it here.
Missing 90-day dates quietly cost you hours. If any of your hours predate your associate number and these dates aren't on file, those hours may not count. Add them.

FAQ

Why am I on "AB 93" rules? Because every California pathway in Licentio is. The pre-2020 rule sets are retired, so all current applicants are measured against the same AB 93 rules.

My registration is about to expire. What do I do? File your renewal or Subsequent Registration with the BBS, then record the new registration in Licentio. See Correct or renew your registration.

I entered my degree date wrong. Can I fix it? Yes. Open the Qualifying degree card on this page, enter the correct date from your transcript, and select Save degree date. Licentio then rechecks your pathway and your 90-day rule dates against it.