Built for California BBS associates
SparkHours tracks Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) hours for California Associate Marriage and Family Therapists (AMFTs), Associate Professional Clinical Counselors (APCCs) and Associate Clinical Social Workers (ASWs). It checks every week against the Board's rules, collects your supervisor's signature from an email link, fills in the official forms, and imports the weeks you've already logged, even on paper.
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Hour import
Whether you tracked your hours in Tevera, Track Your Hours or a spreadsheet, you can import them. Upload your filled-in weekly logs, typed or handwritten, and SparkHours reads every week, checks it against the page's totals, and shows you each number before anything is saved.
Take a picture with your phone, upload a scan, or drop in the weekly log PDF from Tevera or your spreadsheet. One file can hold logs for several supervisors and sites.
Form 37A-525 for AMFTs, Form 37A-638 for APCCs and ASWs, and the older ASW layout, whether you filled them in by hand or on a computer.
Every page is read at least twice and every week has to add up to the totals on the sheet. If a page can't be read with confidence, SparkHours says so instead of guessing.
Edit any value before you save. Nothing is added to your hours until you save the log, and saving it doesn't send anything for signature.
The file you upload is stored with your import, so the original signed log is backed up in SparkHours beside those weeks until you delete it. Paper signatures stay on that original rather than becoming SparkHours e-signatures, and weeks already submitted or signed in SparkHours are never overwritten.
Connect your Track Your Hours account and pick a date range. SparkHours brings the hours across in the background, sorted into the Board's categories for your track, and sets up your sites and supervisors as it goes. You get an email when it's done. Your Track Your Hours password is used to sign in once and never stored.
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Most weeks look a lot like the last one. Copy last week's hours into this week, change what was different, and logging turns into a quick review instead of data entry. Pursuing dual licensure? Enter the hours once and copy them to your other license track.
Most associates see the same clients at the same times most weeks. Log one week, then copy it into the next: every day and category comes across, with the same site and supervisor. Change what was different, save, and the week is logged. Need only part of it? Copy a single day to another date.
Registered as both an AMFT and an APCC? Log the week in one license track and copy it into the same week of the other. Matching categories line up on their own. LPCC has no couples, families and children line, so those hours move to individual therapy, and SparkHours tells you how many moved. Any category the other track doesn't have is left out, and SparkHours tells you which. Each log stays separate, with its own totals and BBS forms.
Copying never overwrites hours
Hours copy only into a week that has none yet.
Signed weeks are never copied over
Weeks awaiting a signature, or already signed, are never touched.
You review before anything saves
Copied hours wait in the week until you select Save hours.
Copied weeks get the same rule checks
Saving checks a copied week against the Board's limits, like any other week.
Under a minute, no account needed
Your supervisor gets a cryptographically secure email link, with no account to create. They review the summary, draw or type their signature, and each week becomes its own signed record on the official BBS form, with a SHA-256 document hash, a full audit trail and seven-year retention. Bulk signing puts any number of weeks in one email, and each keeps its own audit trail. UETA and ESIGN compliant.
< 1 min for your supervisor to review and sign
0 accounts or passwords your supervisor needs
1 email for one week or a dozen at once
Weekly log
Sunrise CounselingWeek of Mar 3 to Mar 9
SignedSHA-256 4a7f3c9e… · audit trail attached
BBS forms
When you apply for licensure, the Board wants an In‑State Experience Verification form, not your weekly logs. SparkHours builds it from the logs your supervisor already signed, so the totals match what you agreed to week by week. Your supervisor reviews their part and signs from a private link or on a fillable PDF.
Weekly logs
Experience Verification
Experience Verification
Your placements
One placement is one supervisor at one work setting and degree phase. Request a supervisor signature through email and browser. Only weekly logs already signed in SparkHours count.
Harbor Counseling Center
Supervised by Sofia Example (LMFT 987654)
Progress and rules
Your totals, your pace and the rules for your phase, on one dashboard. Pursuing LMFT and LPCC? Each license track gets its own.
Countable hours by category, your weekly pace and a projected completion date built from your actual numbers, shown once you have 12 weeks of data. Set a target date and SparkHours tells you if you're on track or falling behind.
Start tracking to see your finish datePursuing both the LMFT (licensed marriage and family therapist) and LPCC (licensed professional clinical counselor) license? Each track gets its own dashboard, hour totals, projections and BBS form exports. Switch with one click, on one login and one subscription, and copy a week from one log to the other instead of entering it twice.
The 40-hour cap, the supervision required per setting, the 6-hour supervision maximum and your track's category limits, tested the moment you save a week.
Compare rule checks with a spreadsheetSparkHours detects your phase from your graduation date and switches from trainee rules to associate rules that day, for LMFT, LPCC and LCSW fieldwork. MFT trainees get the 1,300-hour pre-degree cap, with no more than 750 hours of counseling and supervision.
See how practicum tracking worksAsk about supervision, the 90-Day Rule or hour categories. It's trained on the official BBS handbooks, cites the page it answers from, and knows your track, phase and progress. Included at no extra cost.
See what the assistant can answerPaperwork and renewals
Create the agreement you share with your supervisor, store training documents, and hear about it before your registration expires or your supervisor's license lapses.
For California supervisory relationships that began on or after January 1, 2022, the Board requires an agreement with each supervisor you log hours under. Start from a template, work out the plan together and sign from a private link. You both get the signed PDF.
Create a Supervision AgreementUpload certificates and credentials and note the continuing education each one carries. Stored privately for you, never sent to the Board.
Keep CE and credentials togetherYour registration's expiration date, checked against the state's registry, with email reminders before it expires and one more after. Free, with or without an account, and supervisors can get them for their own license too.
Get free renewal remindersBring in the hours you've logged, get every week signed, and know exactly when you'll finish.
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