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A reasonable question follows: do those practicum hours count toward the 3,000 supervised hours California requires for licensure?",[128,132,133,134,139],{},"The answer depends entirely on which pathway you are on. The three BBS routes give three different answers, and the spread is wide: up to 1,300 hours on one, zero on another, and on the third the question does not exist. If you are still deciding between them, this is one of the concrete differences worth weighing (see ",[135,136,138],"a",{"href":137},"\u002Ffield-notes\u002Flcsw-lmft-lpcc-choosing-your-path\u002F","LCSW, LMFT, or LPCC: choosing your path",").",[141,142,144],"h2",{"id":143},"three-pathways-three-answers","Three pathways, three answers",[146,147,148,157,165],"field-notes-feature-grid",{},[149,150,154],"field-notes-feature-item",{"color":151,"icon":152,"title":153},"primary","ph:chats-circle-duotone","LMFT track: up to 1,300 hours",[128,155,156],{},"MFT trainees can count up to 1,300 hours earned during the graduate practicum toward the 3,000-hour total, subject to sub-caps on how those hours break down (BPC 4980.43).",[149,158,162],{"color":159,"icon":160,"title":161},"warning","ph:prohibit-duotone","LPCC track: zero hours",[128,163,164],{},"No pre-degree hours count. PCC trainees may only counsel as part of supervised coursework, and none of it carries into the 3,000. Every qualifying hour comes after APCC registration.",[149,166,170],{"color":167,"icon":168,"title":169},"info","ph:minus-circle-duotone","LCSW track: no trainee category",[128,171,172],{},"The LCSW pathway has no trainee status at all, so there are no pre-degree hours to count. The clock starts when your ASW registration is issued.",[141,174,176],{"id":175},"the-lmft-sub-caps-1300-is-not-a-flat-allowance","The LMFT sub-caps: 1,300 is not a flat allowance",[128,178,179,180,184],{},"The 1,300-hour cap has internal structure. At most 750 of those hours can be counseling plus supervisor contact. At least 550 of the balance must be non-clinical work: client-centered advocacy, clinical reports and notes, consultation. The full breakdown, alongside the rest of the AMFT rule set, is on the ",[135,181,183],{"href":182},"\u002Frequirements\u002Fca-lmft\u002F","California LMFT requirements page",".",[186,187,190],"field-notes-callout",{"title":188,"type":189},"Heavy counseling loads hit the sub-cap first","caution",[128,191,192],{},"If every practicum hour you log is counseling, at most 750 of them will count. Reaching the full 1,300 requires at least 550 hours of non-clinical work logged alongside the clinical ones.",[128,194,195],{},"The practical consequence: if you are an MFT student, log your practicum hours carefully from day one, and log them by category. Which hours were counseling, which were supervisor contact, and which were non-clinical determines how much of your practicum survives the sub-caps. Reconstructing that split from memory at application time, years later, rarely goes well.",[141,197,199],{"id":198},"the-lpcc-zero-and-what-it-means-for-pacing","The LPCC zero, and what it means for pacing",[128,201,202],{},"The rule on the counseling side is explicit: zero pre-degree hours count. Trainee counseling exists only as part of supervised coursework, and it serves the degree, not the license.",[128,204,205,206,210],{},"Plan your pacing around that. All 3,000 hours come after your APCC registration is issued, over a minimum of 104 weeks and within a six-year window (the details are on the ",[135,207,209],{"href":208},"\u002Frequirements\u002Fca-lpcc\u002F","California LPCC requirements page","). A plan that quietly assumes practicum credit will run long, and on a pathway with a hard six-year boundary, running long is expensive.",[128,212,213],{},"For the LCSW track there is nothing to plan around. MSW fieldwork is a degree requirement, not licensure credit, and no ASW-equivalent trainee status exists to attach hours to.",[141,215,217],{"id":216},"where-trainee-hours-end-and-the-90-day-rule-begins","Where trainee hours end and the 90-day rule begins",[128,219,220],{},"The trainee period ends the day your degree is awarded. That boundary matters because a different rule takes over on the other side of it.",[186,222,225],{"title":223,"type":224},"Two rules, one boundary","note",[128,226,227,228,184],{},"Trainee hour rules cover work before your degree is awarded. Hours worked between degree award and registration issuance fall under a separate provision, the 90-day rule: they count only if the BBS received your registration application within 90 days of your degree. We cover that window in ",[135,229,231],{"href":230},"\u002Ffield-notes\u002Fthe-90-day-rule\u002F","The 90-day rule",[128,233,234],{},"Keep the two straight in your log. Pre-degree hours follow your pathway's trainee rule; post-degree, pre-registration hours follow the 90-day rule; and neither rule can rescue hours filed under the wrong one.",[236,237,238],"field-notes-key-takeaway",{},[128,239,240],{},"Pre-degree credit is a pathway-specific rule, not a universal one. MFT students should log practicum hours by category from day one, because the 1,300-hour cap and its sub-caps are category-based. PCC students should plan for zero practicum credit and pace accordingly. On the LCSW track, the count begins at registration.",{"title":242,"searchDepth":243,"depth":243,"links":244},"",2,[245,246,247,248],{"id":143,"depth":243,"text":144},{"id":175,"depth":243,"text":176},{"id":198,"depth":243,"text":199},{"id":216,"depth":243,"text":217},{"text":250,"label":251,"to":39},"Licentio tracks trainee and associate hours against the caps for your specific pathway, so pre-degree credit is settled long before application time.","Explore the features","2026-08-17","MFT trainees can count up to 1,300 pre-degree practicum hours toward California licensure. PCC trainees can count none, and the LCSW track has no trainee category. Here is how each BBS pathway treats hours earned before your degree.","md","ph:student-duotone",{},true,"\u002Fpages\u002Ffield-notes\u002Ftrainee-hours-before-registration",3,{"title":123,"description":253},"pages\u002Ffield-notes\u002Ftrainee-hours-before-registration","The three California pathways treat graduate practicum hours completely differently, from 1,300 creditable hours down to zero. 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