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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.

XR-Based Exposure Therapy for Phobic Disorders

Given the similar underlying mechanisms of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder to phobias, researchers believe virtual reality-based exposure therapies would have similar treatment outcomes. In this text-based CE, examine the effectiveness of extended reality (XR)-based exposure therapy using physiological markers in combination with patient perceptions of phobic response.

A Clinician’s Guide to Race-Based Traumatic Stress

Through a combination of theory, case studies and evidence-based practices, learn how to identify the signs and symptoms of racial trauma, explore the systemic and psychological impacts of racism, and develop culturally responsive treatment strategies.

Understanding ADHD Through a Neurodiversity-Affirming Lens

Examine common attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) traits and how they impact a client’s identity and mental health. Learn how to implement affirming, strengths-based strategies to support self-awareness, reduce internalized shame and promote therapeutic collaboration through a neurodiversity paradigm lens.

Ways 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.

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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.

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Certificate in Counseling Youth Series

Join us for eight, expert-led sessions that will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to address the range of pressing issues impacting youth today. Completion of all eight sessions will allow participants to earn the ACA Certificate in Counseling Interventions and Evidence-Based Treatment for Specific Issues with Children and Youth.

Certificate in Foundations of Child and Adolescent Counseling New

Presented by ACA and 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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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