Tevera Alternative

Tevera alternative for tracking BBS hours after you graduate

You used Tevera in school because your program required it. Now you've graduated — here's what to use instead. HourJourney is a BBS-compliant supervised-hours tracker built for the associate years: California AMFTs, APCCs, and ASWs working toward LMFT, LPCC, and LCSW licensure.

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Tevera was for school. The BBS associate years are a different job.

If you went through an MFT, counseling, or MSW program in California, there's a good chance your university ran your field placements through Tevera. That makes sense: Tevera is a clinical-education management platform that schools adopt to coordinate placements, collect site-supervisor evaluations, run competency assessments, and produce the documentation accreditors expect at program-review time. It's built around your university's field-education and accreditation needs — not around the path you walk after you have the diploma.

Once you graduate, the question changes. You're no longer a student logging practicum hours for your program; you're a registered associate (AMFT, APCC, or ASW) logging supervised hours toward your own license with the Board of Behavioral Sciences. That phase has its own rules: 3,000 total hours, a direct-clinical minimum, a supervision-ratio requirement that has to hold up every single week, pre-degree versus post-degree caps, and a specific set of official BBS forms you submit at the end. You need a tool built around that — and you need it to be something you control, not something your university administers and then shuts off when you walk.

That transition moment is exactly who HourJourney is for. We've already had graduates register the week they finished their program, looking for the thing that comes after Tevera. If you want the details of the handoff, start with what changes when you graduate and exporting your Tevera hours.

HourJourney vs Tevera

These tools solve different problems. Tevera is built for your university's program; HourJourney is built for the BBS associate years. Where we genuinely don't have detailed information about Tevera's feature set, we mark it as unclear rather than guess.

Dimension	HourJourney	Tevera
Who it's designed for	BBS associates working toward licensure	Students in a university field-education program
What phase it covers	After graduation — the associate years	During your degree program
BBS supervision-ratio validation (every week)
Auto-fill official BBS forms (37A-525, 37A-638, LCSW log)
A / B / C hour-category tracking with BBS caps
Pre-degree / post-degree auto-classification
Trainee-to-associate transition tracking
Built around program accreditation reporting
Competency assessments / faculty evaluations
Field-placement matching with site supervisors
Progress dashboard with projected completion date
Multi-site & multi-supervisor support
Who pays for it	You — $4.95–$7.95/mo, cancel anytime	Usually your university / program
What happens when you graduate	Keeps going with you through licensure	Access typically ends with the program

The dash (—) means we don't have enough detail about Tevera to make a confident claim — not that the feature is absent. HourJourney's column reflects shipped functionality as of May 2026.

What HourJourney does for the associate years

Real-time BBS supervision-ratio validation

HourJourney checks every week's hours against the BBS supervision rules as you log them. If you record more than 10 direct clinical hours in a week without enough qualifying supervision, you'll know that week — not two years later when you're assembling your forms.

Auto-fills the actual BBS forms

HourJourney generates Form 37A-525 (LMFT Experience Verification), Form 37A-638 (LPCC Experience Verification), and the LCSW weekly summary log from the hours you've already entered. The fields are filled to match the official BBS PDFs — no retyping your tracker into a government form.

Pre-degree and post-degree, sorted automatically

For AMFTs, HourJourney classifies each week as pre-degree or post-degree based on your degree-award date and applies the right BBS caps. Change the date and every entry re-classifies on its own — handy for the messy weeks around graduation.

Trainee-to-associate transition built in

When you move from pre-degree trainee to registered associate, HourJourney carries your history forward and switches you to the associate plan and ruleset. The hours you logged in your last practicum semester don't disappear — they roll into the same dashboard.

All three California license paths

LMFT via AMFT registration, LPCC via APCC registration, and LCSW via ASW registration. Each has its own hour requirements and caps, and HourJourney applies the correct BBS ruleset for the path you're on — sourced from current BBS publications, including the rule that the BBS doesn't require any specific software (see the Form 37A-525 guide below).

A projected completion date you can plan around

Your dashboard estimates when you'll hit 3,000 hours based on your recent pace, broken down by category so you can see whether direct hours, non-clinical hours, or supervision weeks is the thing slowing you down.

Switching from Tevera to HourJourney

There's no file you import — and honestly, most graduates don't need one. The pre-degree hours you carry into your associate registration are usually a modest slice of the 3,000, and re-entering them takes an evening, not a weekend. Here's the order we suggest:

Pull your pre-degree totals out of Tevera while you still have access. Before your program closes your account, save or screenshot your logged hours by week and by category. Our walkthrough on exporting your Tevera hours covers exactly what to grab.
Start a 30-day free trial and set up your sites and supervisors. If you're still pre-degree, you're on the $4.95/mo (or $49/yr) trainee plan; once you're a registered associate, you move to $7.95/mo (or $79/yr).
Log your prior weeks. Enter each week of pre-degree experience with the A/B/C hour breakdown and your individual and group supervision. HourJourney validates the ratios and flags anything that won't hold up.
Confirm your degree-award date. That single date drives the pre-degree vs. post-degree split and the relevant caps. Read what changes when you graduate if you're unsure which date to use.
Carry on from there. Every new week goes into the same dashboard, and when you're ready, HourJourney fills your BBS forms from the whole record.

Worried that Tevera or some other software is the “official” one? It isn't. The BBS doesn't endorse or require a tracking app — what it requires is accurate weekly logs and the correct forms. See the BBS doesn't require any specific software for the chapter and verse on Form 37A-525.

Just graduated from a California program?

We keep school-specific handoff guides for the programs whose graduates come to HourJourney straight out of Tevera — the timing of your degree-award date, when your registration clock starts, and what to carry over.

Graduated from a California program? find your school's guide

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to keep using Tevera after I graduate?

No. Your access to Tevera came through your university's program — it was the system your school used to manage field placements, competency assessments, and accreditation documentation while you were a student. The BBS does not require Tevera, and once you graduate you typically lose program-managed access anyway. For the associate years you want a tool built around the BBS supervised-experience path, like HourJourney.

Is Tevera required by the BBS?

No. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences does not require any specific tracking software. What it requires is accurate weekly logs of your supervised hours and the correct official forms at the end (Form 37A-525 for LMFT, 37A-638 for LPCC, plus the LCSW weekly summary log). You can keep those records in a spreadsheet, in Tevera, or in HourJourney — the Board only cares that they're complete and correct.

Can I move my hours from Tevera to HourJourney?

There's no automated import — you'd re-enter the hours you've already logged. In practice that's quick, because the BBS hour categories are the same and most graduates only have a small amount of pre-degree experience to carry over. Start a 30-day free trial, enter your sites and supervisors, log your prior weeks, and you're caught up.

What's the difference between tracking hours in school versus as a BBS associate?

In school, your hours are tracked inside your university's system because the program needs to document field placements and competencies for its accreditation. As a BBS associate, you're tracking toward your own licensure: 3,000 total hours, a direct-clinical minimum, supervision-ratio rules every week, pre-degree vs. post-degree caps, and the official BBS forms at the end. HourJourney is built around that second phase — it validates the BBS ratios as you log and fills the actual BBS PDFs for you.

How much does HourJourney cost?

HourJourney is $4.95/month (or $49/year — save 17%) for pre-degree trainees and $7.95/month (or $79/year — save 17%) for associates, with a 30-day free trial and no card-on-file commitment to start. There is no large upfront cost — you pay only while you're using it.

You've graduated. Here's what comes after Tevera.

Start your free 30-day trial. No large upfront cost, cancel anytime — $4.95/mo (or $49/yr) while you're pre-degree, $7.95/mo (or $79/yr) as an associate.

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