Continuing Education for Counselors | Earn CE Credits

Mastering Your Craft: The Role of Continuing Education in Professional Development

Access a wide range of online courses designed to help mental health professionals earn continuing education credits. Stay informed while enhancing your knowledge and skills with tailored courses for mental health professionals.

Post-Traumatic Appraisals Mediate the Relationship Between Childhood Psychological Abuse and Complex PTSD Symptom Severity FREE CE

In this text-based CE, examines the relationship between childhood psychological abuse, post-traumatic appraisals and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) symptom severity.

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FREE

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$30

Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

Supporting Lifespan Growth: Narrative Approaches to Adult Development Featured CE

In collaboration with the Association for Adult Development and Aging, explore how integrating lifespan theory with narrative approaches can deepen counseling practice, foster renewal of identity and promote wellness across adult years.

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FREE

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$30

Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

When Did PTSD Become Complex? Featured CE

Learn how to differentiate PTSD from CPTSD, gain an understanding of the neurobiology of CPTSD and how symptoms impact treatment, and identify therapeutic interventions for clients who present with CPTSD.

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$15

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$30

Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

Ways to Receive Continuing Education Credit

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Earn continuing education credit by taking advantage of ACA's online professional development programming. Here you can access innovative educational content created for the counseling profession. Learn in a variety of formats such as video-based courses, education sessions, and webinars; as well as text-based book chapters and journal articles.

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When you attend our flagship educational and professional development event, you'll have the opportunity to receive Continuing Education (CE) credit hours. Also as an attendee, you'll explore new strategies for self-care, advocate for the counseling care of tomorrow, and access the latest tools and resources to support your clients. Attend our conference and enjoy networking.

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Continuing Education Courses

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Advocacy in Action: From Insight to Impact

Brought to you by �ֲ��ýPresident Elsa Soto Leggett, this new webinar series explores advocacy—big and small—as a central part of our work as professional counselors.

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An Integrated Approach for Mental and Metabolic Health Recovery New

Comprehensive and engaging, this popular course has been updated and expanded to include more than 170 topics, a detailed instructor guide and more to offer mental health providers the knowledge, tools, and structure to help clients recover from psychological conditions that lead to emotional eating and weight gain.

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Introduction to �ֲ��ýCode of Ethics

This three-part interactive course is an in-depth exploration of the �ֲ��ýCode of Ethics — structured to equip you with the necessary frameworks and concepts, along with reflective and practical exercises, to address issues in counseling practice effectively.

Certificate in Foundations of Child and Adolescent Counseling

Presented by �ֲ��ýand the Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling (ACAC), this eight-session series will equip mental health professionals with foundational knowledge and applied skills for effective, ethical, and culturally responsive counseling with children and adolescents.

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Access the New �ֲ��ýLearning Portal

ACA's new learning platform has launched. It offers an enhanced user experience making it easier for you to track your CEs, review your learning history, attend courses and webinars and more.

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