We Want to Meet You...
and buy you a cup of coffee or tea!

Continuing our 'Getting to Know You' efforts, we are scheduling more Saturday morning meetups around our region. We had such a blast meeting with our members last year that we're doing it again...casual talks over a cup of coffee or tea, and again, it's on us! 

Feel free to invite a therapist friend to join us, whether they are a chapter member or not. The more the merrier!

This month we will meet in San Jose at Blvd Coffee.

Presented by Jonathan TranPham and Dr. Carl Fleisher

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This presentation is being offered free of charge as a virtual, live stream event.  It will also be recorded for SCV-CAMFT members to access.

Join us for a multi-part series co-hosted by reflect, who is partnering with SCV-CAMFT.  reflect’s mission is to help great therapists build thriving private practices and make quality mental health care more accessible.  reflect has helped thousands of therapists grow successful practices and facilitated over 100,000 therapy sessions to date, and they’re here to share their learnings.

Whether you’re an associate curious about private practice, an experienced therapist considering a career transition, or someone with your own practice wanting additional support, you will get a lot out of this series.  

This first presentation focuses on the fundamentals of private practice – including how it is different from community mental health or agency work, the additional responsibilities therapists must be aware of, business and legal considerations, and what a successful career in private practice might look like (hint: there’s a lot of upside too!).  This presentation sets a solid foundation for the future presentations, so you won’t want to miss.

Future presentations will cover topics such as how to grow a practice (including online marketing), the tradeoffs between cash-pay and insurance, and starting a group practice as a supervisor.  There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions in a safe space with peer support! 

Program Goal

The goals of the presentation include demystifying private practice psychotherapy and equipping therapists with familiarity around the fundamentals of private practice.  Audience members should come with curiosity to explore a career in private practice.  By the end of this series, they should have both knowledge and confidence around what it takes to build a thriving private practice, plus clear tools and techniques they can implement in their own practices. 

About the Presenters

This event is co-hosted by reflect.  It will be presented by Jonathan TranPham, reflect’s founder and CEO, and Dr. Carl Fleisher, reflect’s head of clinical and a board certified psychiatrist with a private practice in Beverly Hills.  

Jonathan TranPham
Jonathan is the founder and CEO of reflect.  Jonathan started reflect after his own struggles looking for the right therapist.  Luckily, he eventually found care and experienced the life-changing power of therapy (thank you, DBT!).  Jonathan is passionate about making quality care more accessible for others and supporting therapists with his business experience.  Before starting reflect, Jonathan ran marketing at apparel brand Everlane and spent seven years in strategy consulting at Bain and Monitor Group, advising global healthcare and consumer leaders such as Levi's, Nordstrom, eBay, and Genentech.  Jonathan has a BS in organizational psychology from Northwestern and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.  In his spare time, Jonathan loves to travel, cook (vegetarian), and is a certified spin instructor.  

Dr. Carl Fleisher
Dr. Carl Fleisher is reflect’s head of clinical and a board-certified psychiatrist with a specialty in evidence-based treatment for anxiety, depression, and emotion dysregulation disorders. He also serves as part of the Psychiatry Department at UCLA and sees patients in private practice in Beverly Hills.  Dr. Carl earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and completed his residency and fellowship at the UCLA Semel Institute and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital.  After fellowship, Dr. Carl joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School with a position at McLean Hospital where he directed a residential program for anxiety disorders while also serving in McLean’s clinic providing mentalizing-based therapy for borderline personality disorder (BPD).  In his spare time, Dr. Carl enjoys spending time with his children, running, and watching sports.

The views expressed in presentations made at SCV-CAMFT membership meetings or other SCV-CAMFT events are those of the speaker and not, necessarily, of SCV-CAMFT. Presentations at SCV-CAMFT events do not constitute an endorsement of the vendor or speaker's views, products or services.

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Presented by Linda Johnson, LMFT, LAADC

Includes 3 CEUs for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs
This event is online. A recording will be available to registrants to view for 3 months.

It was never intended that our juvenile halls, jails and prisons be used as mental health treatment facilities, but that is a primary function of our detention facilities in this country.  We have experienced an increasingly urgent need for mental health education, expertise and programming within our multidisciplinary justice systems.  Youth may be particularly negatively impacted by contact with law enforcement, arrest, and subsequent detention, as it occurs during some of the most difficult and delicate developmental tasks of their lives.

More and more, the public and communities are turning to mental health professionals to intervene on those engaged in criminal activities, including our youth.  At the same time that we are experiencing a political shift toward reform in juvenile justice - resulting in the reorganization and modification of existing programming (including mental health services) - there remains a shortage of resources to create and staff new mental health programs.  

Though having strong and unwavering political, community and financial support to provide more and better quality mental health programming in juvenile justice systems would be ideal, it is not our current reality.  Therefore, mental health professionals’ most powerful tools while working with this population include solid clinical assessment skills and therapeutic abilities, an understanding of systemic issues within juvenile justice, and the capacity for compassion and connection with alleged perpetrators.  

During this presentation, we will review past and recent trends in juvenile justice with a focus on the associated mental health programming.  We will explore the roles and necessary skills of forensic mental health professionals.  We will also review some de-identified juvenile criminal cases with the opportunity to practice assessment and diagnostics, and discuss recommendations for treatment interventions. 

Program Goal

The goal of this program is for participants to increase their understanding regarding the importance of clinically accurate intake assessment and diagnosis, and the need to provide more appropriate treatment interventions to juvenile justice-involved youth and their families.

Learning Objectives

1.  Identify four reasons other than “criminal intent” that youth end up in the juvenile justice system.
2.  Name three ways juvenile justice systems can more appropriately meet the growing mental health needs of youth.
3.  List three ways mental health intake assessment can be used to benefit youth who encounter juvenile justice systems.
4.  Identify two practices that have harmed or exacerbated youth mental health in our juvenile justice systems/programming.

About the Presenter

Linda Johnson earned a Master’s degree in clinical and research psychology from San Francisco State University.  She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Licensed Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LAADC) - both licenses are held in the State of California. Linda has been a practicing mental health clinician for 20 years and spent sixteen years working as a forensic mental health clinician in juvenile justice settings, with specialties including assessment, trauma recovery, addictive disorders, family systems, adolescent and transitional-aged-youth mental health needs.  

During her years as a forensic mental health clinician, she assisted in the co-development of mental health programming, the facilitation of treatment and case management for detained and community-based juvenile-justice-involved youth and their families.  She provided trainings to probation and institution staff, and to partnering mental health and community-based professionals.  She also clinically supervised Master’s and Doctoral student interns yearly.

TARGET AUDIENCE: LCSW, LMFT, LPCC

If you miss any of the presentation, you will not be eligible for the CEUs. SCV-CAMFT is a CAMFT approved Continuing Education Provider (CEPA 052466). This course meets the qualifications of 3 continuing education credit for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs. SCV-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

The views expressed in presentations made at SCV-CAMFT meetings or events are those of the speaker and not, necessarily, of SCV-CAMFT. Presentations at SCV-CAMFT events do not constitute an endorsement of the vendor or speaker's views, products or services.

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Presented by CAMFT Executive Director, Joy Alafia, CAE

Presented by Dave Jensen, JD

6 CEUs for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs

MORE DETAILS COMING SOON!

This event will be in person at Micheal's at Shoreline and also offered as a live stream event. In-person attendees are required to sign a covid-19 liability release form stating they have no symptoms of covid-19 and that they have not been in contact with anyone testing positive for covid-19. A recording of the event will be available for all registrants for 3 months. In-person registration includes a hot breakfast buffet, lunch buffet, dessert and drinks. Michael's at Shoreline is a beautiful venue with outdoor patios for breaks and eating.

About the Presenter

Mr. Jensen worked in-house for the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) for many years, where he assisted CAMFT’s members in understanding and complying with their legal and ethical requirements. A popular and engaging presenter, Mr. Jensen has given numerous workshops throughout the state on compliance issues for psychotherapists. In addition, to providing workshops for local chapters of CAMFT, he also conducts trainings for nonprofit agencies, government agencies, and universities. He has also assisted psychotherapists in forming professional corporations and nonprofit corporations.

TARGET AUDIENCE: LCSW, LMFT, LPCC

If you miss any of the presentation, you will not be eligible for the CEUs. SCV-CAMFT is a CAMFT-approved Continuing Education Provider (CEPA 052466). This course meets the qualifications of 6 continuing education credit for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs. SCV-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

The views expressed in presentations made at SCV-CAMFT membership meetings or other SCV-CAMFT events are those of the speaker and not, necessarily, of SCV-CAMFT. Presentations at SCV-CAMFT events do not constitute an endorsement of the vendor or speaker's views, products or services.

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Presented by Joe Burgo, PhD

3 CEUs for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs

This event will be in person at Micheal's at Shoreline, following all Covid-19 protocols, and also offered as a live stream event. A recording of the event will be available for all registrants for 3 months.

More Details and Registration Coming Soon!

In person at Michael's at Shoreline this year! We look forward to seeing you all for the annual celebration of YOU, and your contributions to this chapter. There will be a full brunch buffet, drinks, and prizes. You will get to meet fellow chapter members, the board of directors, and all the fabulous volunteers that helped make this past year a success.

Register today!

Presentation by Connie Habash  

3 CEUs.

If you miss any of the presentation, you will not be eligible for the CEUs. SCV-CAMFT is a CAMFT-approved Continuing Education Provider (CEPA 052466). This course meets the qualifications of 3 continuing education credit for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs. SCV-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

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