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Oregon LMFT Registered Associate to LMFT: Hours, Supervision & OBLPCT Reporting

Last updated July 12, 2026

If you are an Oregon Registered Associate on the LMFT path, your board is OBLPCT — the same board and rules as the LPC track, with two differences that matter every week you log hours: a 750-hour couples/family subset carved out of your direct hours, and a narrower supervisor pool. There is no "total work hours" milestone here. Direct client contact is the primary metric, supervision is proportional to your monthly caseload, and one missed month can void the hours you worked. Here is the whole picture.

The hour targets

The 750-hour couples/family subset

The subset covers direct hours delivered to a couple or family together in the same session. At least 750 of your 1,900 direct hours must be this couples/family work. An individual session with one member of a couple counts toward your overall direct hours, but not toward the 750. It is easy to under-track — those sessions blend into your regular direct hours — so it pays to tag them from day one rather than reconstruct them in year three. For gray areas like collateral or parent-only sessions, get your supervisor's read and, when in doubt, the board's, before counting. The MFT couples/family hours guide compares the Oregon and Washington subsets side by side.

The proportional supervision rule — and the zero-credit penalty

OAR 833-050-0081 scales your required supervision to your direct client volume each month rather than setting a flat monthly minimum:

On top of the totals: at least 50% of the required hours must be one-on-one, supervision must land in at least two different weeks of the month, each session must be at least one hour, and it must occur in the same calendar month as the client hours it supervises. Group supervision is capped at 6 supervisees, up to 50% of your total supervision may be group, and up to 75% of your individual supervision may be live, synchronous electronic sessions.

The penalty for coming up short is unusually severe: if you do not receive the required supervision in a month, none of that month's direct client contact hours count toward licensure. A busy month with a supervisor on vacation can quietly erase 60 or more direct hours. Catching that before your annual report closes — while there is still time to talk to your supervisor — is far better than discovering it at renewal.

The narrower supervisor pool

LPC associates can be supervised by an Oregon LPC, psychologist, LCSW, or LMFT. LMFT associates face a stricter bar: your supervisor must be trained specifically in the systemic approach to couples and family therapy, have 5 years of post-licensure experience, and have 30 clock hours of supervision training. That is a much smaller pool, so line up your supervisor early rather than assuming any board-approved clinician qualifies.

Annual reporting, anchored on plan approval

Since January 1, 2024, OBLPCT collects a single annual Supervision Report instead of six-month reports, anchored on your Registration Plan approval date — not your birth month.

• Your reporting period starts the day your initial Registration Plan was approved.
• The first report covers your first 12 months from plan approval.
• Subsequent reports come every 12 months at registration renewal — due by the first day of the month of your initial registration.
• A final report covers the stretch since your last annual report, at the conclusion of supervision.
• Reports may not include future projected hours, and months the Board has already approved cannot be resubmitted.

The report tracks your hours month by month, with your supervisor signing off on the counts — which is exactly why the proportional rule bites at the month level. Almost Licensed computes each month's tier, flags any month at risk of the zero-credit penalty, fills the couples/family column, and pre-fills the OBLPCT annual Supervision Report PDF so you are not rebuilding the grid by hand.

Exam

You must pass the AMFTRB national MFT exam, administered through Prometric, plus the open-book Oregon Jurisprudence Examination covering state rules and statutes. The Oregon LPC associate guide covers the counseling sibling of this path, and the Washington LMFTA guide shows how the same discipline works across the river.

This guide is informational, not legal advice. Licensure rules change — always verify current requirements with your board before making decisions about your supervision plan, and flag any discrepancies to support@almostlicensed.com so we can fix them.