The PCC Continuing Education Program is led by a vibrant, collegial group of volunteer psychoanalysts working to develop the most compelling and useful psychoanalytic continuing education program in the Los Angeles area. Bringing speakers from all over the world as well as from our own backyard, we seek to enliven and deepen the clinical skills of all those who participate in our conferences. We offer an Annual Melanie Klein Lectureship along with conferences focused on infant observation, psychoanalytic theory and technique, and diversity with an emphasis on primitive states of mind.

The PCC is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians; by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to provide continuing education for licensed social workers and marriage and family therapists; and by the California Board of Registered Nursing to provide continuing education for registered nurses. We also offer continuing education credit to licensed psychologists through our accreditation with the CMA.

Along with the California Medical Association (CMA), the Psychoanalytic Center of California believes cultural and linguistic competencies are essential to providing quality and accessible care, and also acknowledges that society has embedded and endemic structural racism and biases that affect the care that an individual receives. Here is a helpful resource to guide our thinking about these important matters. To learn more about California’s legislative efforts to incorporate these competencies into continuing medical education, see AB1195 and AB241

Committee Members

  • Leigh Tobias, PhD (Chair)

  • Persila Conversano, PsyD (Member)

  • Yelena Kashtuyeva, :MFT (Candidate Representative)

  • Jennifer Kunst, PhD (CME Coordinator)

  • Chris Minnick, MD (CME Chair)

  • Stacey Nicklas, LMFT (Member)

  • Jason Snyder, LMFT (Candidate Representative)