Three thousand supervised hours over at least two years, no more than 1,500 claimed in any 12-month period, and supervision that has to come from an LPCC-S. The part most counselors get wrong is the difference between work supervision and training supervision.
| Requirement | What it is | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Supervised experience | Two years of post-LPC supervised experience in clinical counseling | ORC 4757.22 · OAC 4757-13-03Rule |
| Total hours | 3,000 hours of supervised professional experience | OAC 4757-13-03Rule |
| Annual ceiling | No more than 1,500 hours claimable in any 12-month period | OAC 4757-13-03Rule |
| Supervision ratio | An average of one hour of supervisor contact for every twenty hours of supervisee work | OAC 4757-17-01 (eff. 8/18/2025)Rule |
| Training supervision total | 150 hours of training supervision, the 1:20 ratio applied across 3,000 hours | Ohio CSWMFT Board application guidanceBoard guidance |
| Supervisor credential | Training supervision must be provided by an LPCC-S | OAC 4757-17-01Rule |
| Record keeping | Records of training supervision are to be maintained by the supervisee | OAC 4757-17-01Rule |
Where a number comes from board application guidance rather than the administrative code, this page says so. The two are not interchangeable when a reviewer asks you where a figure came from.
Ohio uses two different kinds of supervision, and counselors regularly assume the weekly meeting they already attend is the one that counts. Often it is not.
One person can do both. If your workplace supervisor happens to be an LPCC-S, the same meeting can serve both purposes. That is convenient, and it is also why the two blur together in people's records. The hours you will be asked about at application time are the training supervision hours, so keep them identified as such from the start.
No more than 1,500 hours may be claimed in any 12-month period. Working 60-hour weeks does not shorten the path. The excess simply does not count, which turns the 3,000-hour requirement into a genuine two-year minimum.
The practical consequence is that the ceiling is a pacing tool. If you are on track to exceed 1,500 in a given year, the surplus is better spent on the supervision ratio than on more billable time that will not be credited.
Search for Ohio LPCC supervision hours and you will find 150 on some pages and 90 on others. Rather than argue about the summaries, here is what each source actually says.
OAC 4757-17-01, effective August 18, 2025, states the requirement as a ratio: an average of one hour of supervisor contact for every twenty hours of supervisee work. The rule does not name a total.
The Ohio CSWMFT Board's application guidance applies that ratio to the 3,000-hour requirement and describes the result as 150 hours of training supervision with an LPCC-S. That is where the number comes from, and it is guidance rather than rule text.
If you track the ratio as you go, the total takes care of itself, and you have a defensible answer either way.
OAC 4757-17-01 puts the training supervision record on you, the supervisee. That is precisely the record HourPath is built to keep: dated entries, the hours in each one, the supervisor they belong to, and the work site where they happened.
Your dashboard shows progress toward the 3,000 hours, how many hours you have claimed in the current 12-month period against the 1,500 ceiling, and your supervision total alongside it, so you can see whether you are keeping pace with the ratio rather than discovering a gap at application time.
Every supervision entry asks you one question: was this training supervision or work supervision? Because one LPCC-S can provide both kinds in the same meeting, that distinction is the easiest one in Ohio to lose track of, and it is the one the board cares about. HourPath keeps a running training supervision total on your dashboard, separate from work supervision, so the number you report at application time is the number the rule actually asks for.
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