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Start with a number, a question, or the thing you are actually dealing with.
Seven calculators, two directories and 121 pages of California-specific reference — each one stamped with the month it was last checked against the source.
Every figure on this page was re-checked against the statute, schedule or filing it cites.
In short
Where is the official page for this?
Fourteen starting questions and a checked link for each rule behind them
14 indexed questionsWhat changed on this page (1)
- 2026-06-01
- Evernorth (Cigna) behavioral health closed to new individual applicants, pointing providers back after 1 September 2026. source ↗
What moved, and when
This site is a reference, so the useful kind of recency is not “what did you publish this week” — it is which numbers have changed under you. Every page carries the month it was last checked. These are the figures that actually moved.
- Reconciled the program directory against the Board's own list: 13 institutions added (65 to 78), and the LPCC column corrected for 33 of them — 7 that showed no answer are listed for LMFT and not LPCC, including Cal Poly Humboldt, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and USC.what it changes →
- Added the Board's Notice to Students about Sentio University: its graduates may register as Associates but cannot sit the Clinical Exam or be licensed until Sentio is fully accredited, and if that does not happen by July 2028 existing Associates are disqualified and their hours void.what it changes →
- BBS fees halved: registration through license fell from $1,750 to $875, reverting on 30 June 2030.what it changes →
- Evernorth (Cigna) behavioral health closed to new individual applicants, pointing providers back after 1 September 2026.what it changes →
Start with a number
Seven calculators. You type your own figures in; nothing is stored, nothing is sent anywhere, and every result traces to a rate or a statute you can click through to.
Or start with the question
The twenty questions people arrive with most often. This is a selection, not the whole list — there are 121 pages on this site, and the honest place to see all of them is the full index.
Or browse by what you are dealing with
Five areas. Every page on the site sits in exactly one of them, so a topic page is the complete answer to “what do you have on this?”
- What does my practice actually pay me?
- How much of my tax bill is optional?
- Which retirement plan should I actually open?
- What does it take to become an LMFT here?
- When will I actually be licensed?
- Is this associate job offer any good?
- What should I be charging?
- What does insurance actually pay per session?
- How do I get on insurance panels in California?
- Should I hire an associate?
- How do I fill my caseload?
- What does SimplePractice really cost me?
- What CE do I actually owe, and what counts?
- Which psychedelic training is worth paying for?
Where you are right now
Three each, on purposeAn associate and someone eight years into a practice need different pages, and the commonest way to lose a reader is to hand them the right answer to somebody else’s question.
Pre-licensed
Accruing hours, choosing a placementNewly licensed
First year on your own licenseRunning a practice
Structure, tax and growthOne email a month. What changed in the numbers.
When the Board moves a fee, when the IRS publishes next year’s limits, when a panel closes to new applicants. Nothing else, and one click to leave.
Two directories
Where a set is large enough that a list beats an article, it gets its own filterable directory rather than a paragraph.
The reference list
Seventy-eight outbound links, checked by hand: the Board, the payers, the associations, the statutes. Collapsed because most people want one of them, not all of them.
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The reference list
Seventy-eight outbound links, checked by hand: the Board, the payers, the associations, the statutes. Collapsed because most people want one of them, not all of them.
Open the reference list
The reference list
Seventy-eight outbound links, checked by hand: the Board, the payers, the associations, the statutes. Collapsed because most people want one of them, not all of them.
Open the reference list
The reference list
Seventy-eight outbound links, checked by hand: the Board, the payers, the associations, the statutes. Collapsed because most people want one of them, not all of them.
Open the reference list
The reference list
Seventy-eight outbound links, checked by hand: the Board, the payers, the associations, the statutes. Collapsed because most people want one of them, not all of them.
Open the reference list
The reference list
Seventy-eight outbound links, checked by hand: the Board, the payers, the associations, the statutes. Collapsed because most people want one of them, not all of them.
Open the reference list
The reference list
Seventy-eight outbound links, checked by hand: the Board, the payers, the associations, the statutes. Collapsed because most people want one of them, not all of them.
Open the reference list
The reference list
Seventy-eight outbound links, checked by hand: the Board, the payers, the associations, the statutes. Collapsed because most people want one of them, not all of them.
Open the reference list
The reference list
Seventy-eight outbound links, checked by hand: the Board, the payers, the associations, the statutes. Collapsed because most people want one of them, not all of them.
Open the reference list
The reference list
Seventy-eight outbound links, checked by hand: the Board, the payers, the associations, the statutes. Collapsed because most people want one of them, not all of them.
Open the reference list
The reference list
72 links, all checkedEverything a California therapist in private practice actually needs to reach: the Board, CE and supervision, insurance panels, telehealth law, malpractice and HIPAA, entity and tax, and the client directories with what they cost. No price or deadline appears unless it was on the page it describes.
Not here yet, and worth saying so: Medi-Cal and Medicare fee schedules by billing code, and a calendar of the dates that actually bite — quarterly estimated tax, renewal months, and when California publishes next year’s figures. Both were promised on the old tools page as “coming soon”; neither is written, so neither is linked.
Where numbers come from
The sources behind the tools hereEvery figure in the calculators on this site traces to one of these. They are listed so you can check the work, or build your own.