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.
Do Artificial Intelligence Clients Speak Like Human Clients? Exploring GPT-4’s Content-Level Performance in Counseling Role-Play Free CE
With the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), new opportunities have emerged for enhancing training through AI-driven simulations. Explore the use of GPT-4, a large language model with voice capabilities, for client simulation in counseling role-play practices.
ACA Members
FREE
Nonmembers
$30
Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour
An Integrative Approach to Treat Clients with Grief Featured CE
Explore methods of empathizing, validating and working with clients presenting with any type of grief and learn to integrate post-modern methodologies common for grief and co-morbidities including anxiety, depression and trauma.
ACA Members
$15
Nonmembers
$30
Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour
Introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Featured CE
Delve into the core cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and how to build a cognitive conceptualization and translate it into a practical treatment plan. Also learn how CBT focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, behaviors and body reactions.
ACA Members
$15
Nonmembers
$30
Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour
10 Things Counselors Should Know About Medicare Featured CE
Over 60,000 licensed professionals have enrolled as Medicare-approved providers since becoming eligible. Learn about the Medicare program’s history, demographics and politics, as well as the implications for counselor professional identity and interprofessional collaboration.
ACA Members
$15
Nonmembers
$30
Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour
Coming Soon — A New Learning Experience
Effective January 2026, ACA will launch a new platform for professional development. The new ACA Learning Platform will offer an enhanced user experience making it easier for you to track your CEs, review your learning history, attend courses and webinares and more!
LEARN MOREWays to Receive Continuing Education Credit
Professional Development Center
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.
ACA Conference & Expo
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.
Continuing Education Courses
Introduction to ACA Code of Ethics New
Certificate in Foundations of Child and Adolescent Counseling New
Explore ACA Continuing Education Products
Continuing Education Approval
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
NAADAC: The Association for Addiction Professionals
Association for Play Therapy (APT)
Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC)
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners
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