Tools, reference and support for California MFTs.
Therapist Support is a free collection of practical things for California-licensed therapists — MFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and psychologists. Calculators, rate research and plain-English notes on the parts of the job nobody trained you for. Built by a therapist. No account, nothing to buy.
In short
Who made this, and can I trust it?
Who built the tools, how they are checked, and what is not sold here
The tools
Things that work it out for youAll free, and every figure traceable to the rule or schedule it came from.
Practice Simulator
Rate, caseload, time off, expenses — what you bill, what it costs to run, and what is actually left.
Tax & Retirement
Sole proprietor versus a California professional corporation, and what each retirement account is worth in real dollars.
Grow Your Practice
Referral funnels, lead targets, and what an associate is worth once their wages and payroll costs come out.
Associate planner
Supervision hours, splits, liability and workers’ comp — the real cost of bringing someone on.
Reference
Things you look up, kept currentThe material that is technically public and practically scattered across six agencies, three PDFs and a forum thread from 2023.
The support part
Because most of this is learned from each otherNobody teaches the business of a practice in graduate school. What most therapists know about rates, panels and paperwork they learned from a colleague in a hallway. This is an attempt to write some of that down.
Share what you know
Send a rate, a correction, or a thing that caught you out. It goes into the next update — credited or anonymous, your call.
Say when it is wrong
Rules change and figures go stale. Every message is read by a person, and corrections get made and dated.
Ask for what is missing
Most of what is here started as someone asking whether a thing existed. If you need a tool that is not here, say so.
How to read sources, dates and review notes
The labels describe source references. They do not certify accuracy or establish that a clinician, attorney, accountant or other professional reviewed the page.
The page links to several official or statutory references. Open the relevant source to inspect its scope and current text. Counting links does not document an editorial review.
Use the citations and any dated evidence records to understand the support for a particular claim. This label does not say that the numbers are current or the narrative was reviewed.
Program and training summaries include information published by the institution. Confirm current details with the institution and follow the approval or accreditation sources it identifies.
A limitation is identified on the page. Open the linked explanation to see what could not be established.
Page date is the recorded date for this page. It does not establish that every source was checked on that day. Dates attached to a source review apply only to the material and scope named in that review.
For maintained collections, inspect the Evidence Desk and the evidence records linked on the page. They identify sources, review dates, limitations and affected pages. A source check is not professional advice or an expert-review credential. Material corrections are recorded in What changed.
Two sites, two audiences
This one is for therapists. TherapyCalifornia is for the people looking for care.
Therapist Support covers licensure, training, insurance, money and the operational side of California practice. Its sibling project, TherapyCalifornia, gives California consumers plain-language mental-health guides, cost information and free tools. The separation is intentional: professional resources stay here, while client-facing explanations have a home written for the person seeking help.
See the public platform preview for a visual proposal for the next generation of Therapist Support.
Inspect the public Evidence Desk: sources, review dates, limitations, and correction routes →
Use the citations and any dated evidence records to check the claims relevant to your task. This label is not a verification status.
Practice
Filling the week, and running the admin behind it.
Built by a therapist, for California MFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and psychologists. Free, and nothing on it is sold.
Calculators, rate research and plain-English notes on the parts of the job nobody trained you for. What is checked, how it is checked, and what is not sold here.
