I ' m licensed in both Oregon and Washington . Neither of these states give a crap about where you are currently licensed . Each of them will make you jump through the same hoops , just with different paperwork . If you get a license in California , stay there and use it . If you don ' t intend to stay there , don ' t waste your money getting licensed there . If you are counting client hours right now , you are better off staying put , because finding another site where you have the supervision and all that in place is much harder than you think . Oregon does require 2400 hours . Washington requires 3600 . They knock off a bunch for having a degree from a CACREP school , which brings them both down to 2000 and 3000 respectively . The 2000 in Oregon must be facetoface . The extra 1000 in Washington can be phone calls made on the client ' s behalf , attendance at conferences , consultation groups , and that sort of thing that nobody ever thinks to keep track of . I hope this is helpful information . Your results may vary .