Hello everyone.  We are not having an IE-CAMFT meeting this month.  Hope you are having a relaxing and exciting summer!  Your Board will be meeting at the end of July to plan the year's events, and we are looking at some minor changes to the bylaws.   More CEUs to come in August.   Please let us know if you have any ideas about presenters. Ilse has worked hard to get outlines and info from the seminar presenters so we can provide you with CEUs every month.  Sherry has worked very hard to create the 3000 Club.  All pre-licensed therapists please attend the 3000 Club so we can support you.  Let any board member know if you have ideas for making our Inland Empire CAMFT able to serve you better.  See you in August!! 

Janetta Peltz, IE-CAMFT President

Who opposes Single Payer, well let's see, hmm. . . . it isn't the electorate.  Opponents of Single Payer

The 3000 Club will meet June 17 11am-12:30pm at 6840 Indiana Avenue, Suite 275, Riverside.  The featured speaker will be Jamie Roberts, LMFT, who will speak on the topic of Confidence as a Clinician.

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Welcome.  A special welcome to new members.  This is Your Chapter of CAMFT.  Let us know on the bottom of your evals (at the end of each presentation) what topics you are interested in.  Request presenters also.  All of you are welcome to attend the board meeting from 11 to 12 each 4th Friday of the month after the speaker.  Thank You to Amanda Cavicchi who has volunteered to help on the Board.

In July your Board will meet in a Board Retreat to set up the schedule for the upcoming year.  Ilse has done a wonderful job planning and following up with setting up presentations and CEs.  A great big THANK YOU to Carol for all her work on the website and getting us organized and moving.  What a job she has had to keep track of members and payments. Sherry has given her time to start (and continue) the 3000 Club as well as giving us a wonderful private practice presentation.  What great accomplishments for her Presidency!!  Steve has kept the finances in order.  Garry has watched over the Board making sure we keep on track with the bylaws and reminding us of our history as a Board. Martha has carefully taken notes each month for the minutes and kept track of our duties.  Jeanne and Annette have brought us breakfast for a couple of years! Don't know if we could have stayed awake without it. Thank You!!  Of course Garry's coffee helped.  We look forward to seeing more of Keyvan and Omar and we appreciate their help. Omar has been our social media guru!

It only takes a few of us sharing the work to run this Board.  Help us give you these great presentations!! Think how wonderful it would be to be able to call a colleague for a consult or for info.  I did this a couple of months ago.  Two texts and I had my answer.  

Have a wonderful spring!!  Do something fresh and different.

Janetta

 

 

I wanted to inform you about an upcoming event in our therapy community Call 2017 Shine Retreat for Women. It is a weekend retreat available to all women. Its purpose is restoration, fun, and to connect. It is being held September 29-October 1, 2017. The hosts are Mari A. Lee, LMFT and Anna Osborn, LMFT both state CAMFT members. These incredible women are authors, podcasters and national speakers. This even promises to first class and full of decadent luxury.  For more information go to: http://bit.ly/2p2y6UC

Sorry men, I do not have any information on a men’s retreat. Maybe this is a good area to niche into?

IE 3000 Club

The next IE 3000 Club will be meeting on June 17^th @ 11:00 AM The speaker will be Jamie Roberts, LMFT. The topic will be Confidence as a Clinician. Address: 6840 Indiana Ave. Suite 275, Riverside, CA 92506. If possible RSVP by June 16^th as we serve lunch and do not want to over buy. You can RSVP easily on our Facebook page IE CAMFT 3000 club or by calling 951-778-0230 or text @951-323-2182. Also, if you find yourself available last minute please come even if you didn’t RSVP. We want to support our interns and students and this is a terrific way to meet others, network, and create your therapist tribe.

Do You Have a Business Plan?

Do you have a business plan?  What is that you may be saying? A business plan is a basic vision of your business. Think of a business plan like a treatment you do in therapy. It’s an assessment of where your business is right now. It’s also like a treatment plan as it guides your intervention within your business.  Think goals. The business plan does not have to be formal but each of you should have one in place if you are in private practice or you are wanting to be. I would take an hour or two and sit down and really think about how you want your business to be. This type of writing does not have to be formal enough to be presented to a bank for a bank loan. However, it should be written down after you have spent some time figuring out a vision for your business.  This is where you get to dream and dream big. The basic plan should include:

• Why: Why are you a therapist? Why you are providing your services?
• Who: Do you want to serve, the type of clients you enjoy working with; those you don’t enjoy working with. Remember we can’t serve everyone nor should we try.
• What: What services do you want to include; are you the best couple’s therapist or are groups your thing? Do you teach and will you be bringing that income into your business (which has tax benefits)? Think about what you or your team provide to your clients; it could be as simple as individual therapy, couple, family or maybe a psychoeducational class like parenting or grief and loss.
• Where: The location of your business will it be a home-based business or in an actual building, sharing an office with several other therapists or will you rent one room or share with another therapist? If you are in a building, does the facility fit your business? Are you in a professional building or in a strip mall? Is the building big enough? Do you need more treatment rooms or are you adding therapists and interns to your practice?
• When: When will you start your business or if you have one started, when will you add more services, clients or maybe treatment rooms? Maybe you want to add supervision or another therapist to your practice.
• Resources: To whom in your area do you refer? Who are your referral sources (You should be able to name at least 5)? What staff do you need to make this happen? A virtual assistant, office assistant, biller or answering service? What do you need to make this business work for you instead of you working for it?
• Goals: Take where you are now and where you want to be in say 3 months, 6 months or next year. We can’t get to a place if we do not have any idea of where we are going.

I would try to project out at least two years, three would be optimal. Then review your plan yearly. Ask yourself how close am I to my goals? Do I need to make more money? How many clients did I serve? Do I need to purchase health insurance? Did I take enough vacation time? How is my social media plan working? Did I blog consistently?

Having a vision in the form of a business plan will make you more successful as a business owner. There is something about seeing all of your wonderful accomplishments over the year that is motivating.  Keep the plan simple at first; you can always make it more detailed along the way.

As your board president, I wanted to thank you for your support and encouragement many of you have provided to me during my last two years of service. I have enjoyed my time as president and I have learned a great deal. I have heard from many of you that the newsletter is something that you read monthly and you have enjoyed the information shared. This newsletter is the work of a few dedicated hands, thank you Carol and all who contribute regularly. After this month’s election, I will be handing the reins over to the very competent Janetta Peltz and I trust you will continue to support her as she leads our organization. Please think about becoming involved in IE CAMFT; it is helpful to the chapter but it also gives back to us personally. Additionally, you get to meet and work with some awesome people. I am humbled by all the fabulous work each of you are doing and collectively all the healing that our community is receiving from your tireless work. Our world continues to need us more than ever and I hope that IE CAMFT will continue to support the work and provide trainings to help each of us become better clinicians.  I will continue to be part of this organization as your Past President and encourage you to step out of your comfort zone to see the magic that happens outside that zone. Godspeed to us all.

 

Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino

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Visit www.sb-court.org/employment for details

The 3000 Club meets the third Saturday of every month, which is April 22nd this month.  Judy McGehee will be doing a presentation on preventing burnout and increasing self-care.  The event is free and lunch is included, but please RSVP so we know how many people to expect so there is enough food. Please disseminate the attached flyer to anyone who may be interested. The training is open for students, trainees and interns with MFT focus, no membership required.

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Self-Care—A Needed Respite!

Happy Spring! I do hope you have been taking advantage of our wonderful weather. Today we went to see the “super bloom” at the Santa Rosa Plateau. We took the hike to the vernal pool; it was so pretty, and we saw flowers everywhere. It was such a lovely day with the lush plants, and it was nice to feel the sun on my face--trying to soak up that needed Vitamin D. I do enjoy the extra daylight we receive this time of year, and I appreciate having the day off to recharge and practice some self-care. In fact, I am taking a few extra days off for a mini-vacation this week. I have a couple of small projects I am working on but my I am going to spend as much time as possible outside hiking, sailing, and swimming. Tomorrow’s hike will be in Anza Borrego State Park and I’m hoping to get out there early enough to see the flowers and the Big Horn Sheep.

I do hope you are also building self-care time into your life as well. Can you remember your last vacation?  What did you do? Where did you go? We so need our breaks and vacations to help us prevent burnout and to remain effective therapists. I know some therapists are fearful about taking a vacation because they feel the clients won’t come back or they might have an emergency while the therapist is gone. This could happen, but most of the time my clients are happy that I am taking a vacation. One of my clients stated, “Good for you, enjoy your self-care time.”  My clients know that this time I am only gone a week, and then I will return. I gave them two weeks’ advanced notice and who they should contact if they do have a true emergency. It is rare, but I like for my clients to have a “just in case” number; I think it also provides them peace of mind too.

Do you have your therapist tribe in place? A person or two that can cover for you when you take a vacation or need a break? If you do not, I would encourage you to find a couple of therapists in your area that could take that responsibility on. It is a little more work, but usually, when I cover the week, it is pretty quiet. However, I had a couple once that came in because they just felt they fight too much if they can’t get in to see a therapist. They were a funny couple, and it wasn’t a true emergency, but they begged to come in to see me.  They spent most of the session telling me what they had learned from their therapist and how great he was and only about 5 minutes telling me about a fight they had.   

Here are a few self-care ideas for you that I might also be doing this week.

• Read a good book
• Meditate (Yes, I do this daily)
• Get a massage
• Exercise
• Inhale a nice fragrance--try peppermint, citrus, or frankincense
• Take a new route to work
• Go cloud watching
• Fly a kite or take time to play

Until next time, be well.

Sherry