Continuing Education - Benefit & advance your counseling career

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.

How to Help: Treatment Strategies for Misophonia

Discover how process-based therapy can serve as a framework for treating individuals with misophonia, learn how to use the BASIC model to identify biopsychosocial processes that need to be changed and identify known evidence-based treatment strategies to tailor to help patients.

Foundation of Decolonized Counseling Practices

Discover how colonialism has affected people, communities and the environment. Also explore how liberation counseling can help raise awareness, support healing, and create more just and peaceful communities.

Ten Years of Teaching Ethics: Themes & Reflections

Reflect on current ethical practices through the presenter’s extensive history of teaching ethics courses to master-level students. Additionally, learn about themes, changes and challenges related to the evolution of professional counseling, reflect on personal ethical journeys and create a plan for continued growth.

Deconstructing the “Strong Black Woman” Archetype

Identify how to frame treatment within a social justice lens and how to use various strategies to recognize and address the complexities of the “Strong Black Woman” stereotype in therapeutic settings. Also, learn conceptualization and treatment strategies that center on neurobiology, historical trauma and relational cultural healing.

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.

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