SparkHours vs Tevera
Tevera vs SparkHours for your BBS hours
Tevera is now Experiential Learning Cloud, and it doesn't shut off when you graduate. Here's what it covers on each California Board of Behavioral Sciences track, and where SparkHours differs.
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Switching from Tevera
Keep your Tevera records. Start logging here this week.
Weeks your supervisor already signed stay valid wherever you log next. Leave them where they are. Point SparkHours at the week you're in now, and it applies the Board's rules from there. There's nothing to cancel: Tevera is a one-time purchase, so nothing keeps charging you.
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Tevera vs SparkHours at a glance
| Feature | Tevera | SparkHours |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's sold to | Schools | You |
| Price | $215 one time | $10/mo or $100/yr |
| Free to start | No | 14-day free trial, no credit card |
| Logging hours after you graduate | Yes, with alumni status | Yes |
| California BBS weekly report, LMFT track | Yes | Yes |
| California BBS weekly report, LPCC track | Yes | Yes |
| California BBS weekly report, ASW track | No | Yes |
| Experience Verification, LMFT and LPCC tracks | Yes | Yes |
| Experience Verification, ASW track | No | Yes |
| Supervisor signs electronically | Yes, on a free account | Yes, from an emailed link, no account |
| Your login | Your school email | Your own email |
| Setting up post-degree tracking | Documented, manual process | Enter your graduation date |
| Two license tracks at once | Upon request | LMFT and LPCC in one account |
| Built for | School programs | California BBS licensure hours |
The problem
What Tevera does well, and where it stops short
Tevera was built for school programs. You can keep using it after you graduate, and people do, but that isn't what it was designed around and the caveats are worth knowing first. Your school's BBS track and the state BBS track don't update each other, so Lumivero publishes a manual workaround: match the state track's active date to the school track, log an hour there to force an update, then delete it. Your login stays tied to your school credentials until an administrator or Lumivero support changes it, so don't lose access to that account. And nothing in their marketing mentions post-graduation use, California, or the Board, so if nobody at your program mentioned alumni status you wouldn't know it was there. If that sounds like more work than it should be, it is.
On the ASW track it's not a setup problem. Tevera doesn't cover that track at all. No California weekly log, no Experience Verification form. And the gap is bigger than it sounds, because no pre-degree hours count toward the LCSW 3,000. Every hour you log is post-degree, so you'd spend the entire count in the one phase Tevera has nothing for, building the Board's forms by hand at the end.
SparkHours produces the weekly log and the Experience Verification form on all three tracks, ASW included. You enter your graduation date once and the Board's rules change with it. Your login is your own email from the first day. See the hour requirements for ASWs to find out what those 3,000 hours include.
Side-by-side comparison
Tevera
- Also available: New hours in the same account after you graduate, at no extra charge
- Also available: California BBS weekly reports on the LMFT and LPCC tracks
- Also available: Experience Verification reports on those two tracks
- Also available: A general post-graduate hours log for alumni on any track
- Also available: Supervisors outside your school sign electronically on a free account
- Not included: No California weekly log or Experience Verification form for ASWs
- Not included: You line up the school and state tracks by hand, in a step Lumivero documents
- Not included: Your login stays bound to your school email until someone changes it
SparkHours
- Included: All three California tracks: AMFT, APCC and ASW
- Included: The weekly log and the Experience Verification form on every one of them
- Included: Practicum and associate rules applied by date, from your graduation date
- Included: Weekly supervision checked while the week is still open
- Included: Your supervisor signs from an emailed link. No account, no printing, no scanning.
- Included: LMFT and LPCC tracked together in one account
- Included: An in-app assistant that answers Board questions from the handbooks
What SparkHours checks while you log
The rules change when your degree posts
Before your degree, the LMFT and LPCC practicum rule is a ratio. You need one unit of supervision for every five hours of direct client contact at each setting. The Board averages that over your whole time at that setting. Once you have your degree, the rule changes. At least one unit of supervision is required in each work setting in a week for which experience is credited, except for experience gained by attending workshops, seminars, training sessions, or conferences. A second unit is required in any week with more than 10 hours of direct clinical counseling there. You give us your graduation date. We apply the right rule to each week.
A short week shows up while you can still fix it
At least one unit of supervision is required in each work setting in a week for which experience is credited, except for experience gained by attending workshops, seminars, training sessions, or conferences. If a week comes up short, you see it that week. There's still time to fix it.
The credit limits and the six-year window
The Board credits no more than 40 hours of experience in any seven consecutive days, and no more than six hours of supervision in a single week, counting individual, triadic and group together. Both limits cover all your settings at once, not one setting at a time. SparkHours checks both against your logged week. You also have to earn your experience within the six years before the Board gets your application. On the LMFT track, up to 500 hours of counseling and supervision from practicum can be older than that. SparkHours shows you what still counts and what has aged out.
The pre-degree caps, per track
On the LMFT track, up to 1,300 pre-degree hours can count toward the 3,000. No more than 750 of those may be counseling and direct supervisor contact combined. On the LPCC and LCSW tracks, no pre-degree hours count. SparkHours leaves them out of your total, so you never build a number the Board won't accept.
Your forms, filled in, on all three tracks
SparkHours fills the weekly log and the Experience Verification form for AMFTs, APCCs and ASWs. The Board wants a separate Experience Verification form for each supervisor and each work setting. SparkHours builds one per placement from the weeks your supervisor already signed. On the LMFT track it splits your pre-degree and post-degree hours onto separate forms, the way the Board asks.
Signatures by email
Your supervisor gets a link, reviews the week, and signs. No account, no printing, no scanning. Both of you keep a copy of the signed form.
Full detail on your own track: AMFT, APCC, ASW. If you're still in practicum, how practicum tracking works covers the phase change.
Pricing, side by side
Every Tevera figure below comes from Lumivero's own pages, checked on August 24, 2026.
Tevera
You buy it once through your graduate program. There's no renewal.
- Also available: Hour logging in practicum and after you graduate
- Also available: Alumni access included at no extra cost
- Also available: Weekly and Experience Verification reports on the LMFT and LPCC tracks
- Also available: Supervisors sign electronically on a free account
- Not included: No California weekly log or Experience Verification form for ASWs
- Not included: No free trial
SparkHours
Or $100 a year. Sign up yourself, with your own email.
- Included: 14-day free trial, no credit card to start
- Included: Cancel any time, no contract
- Included: All three California tracks, ASW included
- Included: The weekly log and the Experience Verification form on each of them
- Included: Practicum and associate rules applied by date
- Included: Supervisor e-signatures from an emailed link
- Included: LMFT and LPCC in one account
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Frequently asked questions
Also tracking for...
vs Tevera
AMFT to LMFT
The pre-degree caps, the couples, families, and children hours included in your direct contact, and what the weekly report covers.
vs Tevera
APCC to LPCC
The post-degree-only rule, the non-clinical cap, and what the weekly report covers on the professional clinical counselor track.
vs Tevera
ASW to LCSW
The psychotherapy hours included in your direct contact, the supervisor requirements, and why Tevera doesn't cover this track.
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