Track Your Hours vs HourJourney for Texas Licensure

What Each One Actually Offers in Texas

Track Your Hours is the longer-established product and it does serve Texas. It publishes a Texas LPC page and lists a Texas plan at $89.95 for one year. That page is written for the counseling track: it names the LPC and does not name the LMFT Associate or the LMSW to LCSW route, and it does not mention BHEC by name. If you are an LPC Associate who wants a prepaid annual plan, that is a real option and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

HourJourney was built for all three of the pre-license tracks BHEC oversees, because they behave differently enough that one generic hour log serves none of them well. The LPC Associate track runs on a monthly supervision minimum with no total. The LMFT Associate track runs on a 200-hour supervision total with a weekly session and a 750-hour cap on virtual direct hours. The social work track runs on a 100-hour total that stops counting past 10 hours in any month. Those are three different pieces of arithmetic, and they end in three different board forms.

The other honest note: Track Your Hours also covers New York, which HourJourney does not. If you are licensing in more than one state, that matters.

Texas Feature Comparison

Rows marked "not stated" mean their public Texas page does not say, not that the feature is missing. We only claim what we could verify.

Track Your Hours figures read from trackyourhours.com on 7 September 2026. Form revision dates read from the BHEC forms pages the same week.

Months, Not Weeks, and Three Sets of Arithmetic

Texas counts duration in calendar months on every track: at least 18 months for the LPC Associate (22 TAC 681.92(c)), two years for the LMFT Associate (801.142(1)), and at least 24 full months for the LMSW route, which keeps running even if the hours and the supervision total finish earlier (781.403(b)(7)). There is no weekly hour cap and no weekly supervision ratio anywhere in the three chapters.

Supervision is where the tracks diverge hardest. An LPC Associate needs at least 4 hours a month with no more than half in group and no stated total (681.92(e)). An LMFT Associate needs 200 hours in total with at least 100 individual and at least one hour every week while providing services (801.142(3)). An LMSW needs 100 hours in total, proportional to hours worked, with no more than 10 counted in any one month or 30-day period (781.403(b)(8)). Read those three rules next to each other and it is clear why a single weekly counter does not fit Texas. The detail lives in Texas LPC supervision requirements and Texas LCSW supervision requirements.

Every Texas board form is also filled out one supervisor at a time, which means the totals have to be kept per supervisor from the first logged week rather than reconstructed at the end. That is true whichever tracker you use.

What Comes Out at the End

HourJourney generates the Supervised Experience Documentation Form for the LPC track (revision 5/4/2026) plus the optional Supervision Hours Log, the Supervised Experience Verification Form for the LMFT track (revision 8/26/2026), and a PDF carrying the same information as the LCSW Clinical Supervision Verification Form. That last one is a replica rather than the board's file because BHEC publishes it as a Word document, and 22 TAC 781.405(a) accepts "a form with substantially equivalent information". One per supervisor, with initials, the recommendation and the signatures left blank for the people who sign them.

Track Your Hours states on its Texas page that it makes sure forms are filled out correctly, without naming which Texas forms. If forms are the deciding factor for you, ask them directly which board files they output before you buy. Our field-by-field walkthroughs are public either way: Supervised Experience Documentation form and Supervised Experience Verification form.

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