SF Bay Area CE Classes for MFTs and LCSWs The following providers offer CE classes to help you grow your therapy practice. CE Providers Pronto Professional Seminars www.italyseminars.com Okay, so technically the classes are not in the Bay Area, but Ron Pilato, who works so hard to put them together is a Bay Area Psychologist. Ron manages to attract some of the leading thinkers in our field and hosts seminars in beautiful locations in Italy. What a great way to get CE hours, have a real vacation, and a tax write off to boot! Feminist Therapy Associates www.feministtherapyassociates.com A wonderful variety of CE classes available including Money Matters with Private Pay Clients. Other classes focus on working with LGBT clients and Body Image/Size Accepance. Fran Wickner MFT - Advanced Clinical Training www.franwickner.com Fran offers several business-focused classes including Getting on Managed care/EAP/PPO Provider Panels. Other classes help therapists learn to get organized with standard forms, write effective treatment plans, and find strategies to build their practices. Barbara Griswold, MFT www.navigatingtheinsurancemaze.com Barb is the author of Navigating the Insurance Maze: The Therapist's Complete Guide to working with Insurance - And Whether You Should. She has over 16 years experience as a preferred provider for more than 20 insurance networks. Ronald Mah www.ronaldmah.com Ronald offers a number of CE classes including I Hate Insurance Companies: Conceptualizing Clinical Practice to Develop Success without 3rd Party Payer Dependence and I WANT TO DO THAT! Developing Workshop Presentations From Idea to Conceptualization to Detail to Comprehensive Workshop. Elayne Savage Ph.D. www.elaynesavage.com Elayne is an accomplished therapist, author and speaker. She offers several classes to help therapists build their practices including, Getting Published, Getting Interviewed, Getting Known. Elayne also teaches classes on launching a website and overcoming self-limiting fears. Spanish for Mental Health Professionals www.teresaallenmft.com Weekly Spanish for Therapists class in North Berkeley. The class is taught by a bilingual Madrid native, resident in the States for 25 years and an experienced Spanish teacher. Content is directed to the needs of psychotherapists. Class meets Wednesday evenings in the instructor's home from 6 pm to 8pm. Cost per two-hour session is $40. Class is taught at the intermediate level. Pleasanton Coffee Talk Informal Networking group in Pleasanton, CA sponsored by East Bay CAMFT and facilitated by Sylvia Meier, MFT. Group meets monthly and different speakers present on different topics each month. For more info, email sylviaameier@yahoo.com. If you have a class you would like to list here, please email or call 925-518-4072.