Reference
Supervision Rules - Supervised Hours Tracker Docs Docs
The specific California AMFT supervision rules the tracker checks, with citations.
Every rule in the tracker carries a citation, a confidence level (verified against a primary source, or unverified), and a severity. Unverified rules can only ever warn — never block a logged hour. Below are three representative rules.
Weekly supervision unit, per work setting
If you claim any experience hours in a week at a setting, that week must include at least one unit of supervision at that same setting: 1 hour individual, 1 hour triadic, or 2 hours group (splittable into two 1-hour sessions in the same week).
Citation: BPC §§4980.43.1, 4980.43.2; 16 CCR §§1833(b), 1833.1; BBS AMFT/Trainee FAQ (rev. 02/2025).
This warns while you’re logging (you may just not have logged supervision yet) and blocks at attestation (your supervisor is being asked to sign off on a week that doesn’t comply).
The 1:10 ratio for associates
If direct clinical counseling at a setting exceeds 10 hours in a week, that week requires at least 2 supervision units at that same setting. Unlike the trainee 1:5 ratio, this cannot be averaged over time — a missed week can’t be made up later.
Citation: BPC §§4980.43.1, 4980.43.2; 16 CCR §1833.1; BBS FAQ Q37.
Supervisee cap in nonexempt settings (SB 1024)
Since January 1, 2025, a supervisor may have at most six individual-or-triadic supervisees in nonexempt settings (private practice, professional corporations) at any one time, counted across every employer that supervisor works for — not just yours. Group supervisees and fully licensed supervisees don’t count toward this cap.
Citation: SB 1024 (2024); BBS “Clarification on Number of Supervisees per Supervisor,” published 09/2024, effective 01/01/2025.
This rule can never block: the system can’t see a supervisor’s caseload at a practice that doesn’t use this product. Instead, supervisors periodically self-attest their total count, and that attestation is timestamped and shown to affected associates — itself a genuine service, since this is a rule that changed recently and many supervisors don’t know it did.
How rule changes are handled
Associates aren’t pinned to a fixed ruleset version. California’s own rules don’t grandfather that way — some anchor to when the conduct occurred, some to when a supervisory relationship began, some to when the Board receives an application, and some to when graduate study began. Every rule declares its own anchor, and the engine resolves the applicable version per rule, per fact, at the date in question. When a rule changes in a way that would alter a past verdict, affected associates and their supervisors are notified before the change becomes visible in their own view — never silently.