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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.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Adventure Therapy in Anxiety-Related Disorders: A Meta-Analysis  FREE CE

In this text-based CE, explore the foundations and applications of adventure therapy, research findings related to anxiety, PTSD and other anxiety-related symptoms, and factors that may influence treatment outcomes.


ACA Members
FREE
Nonmembers
$30

 Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

From Compliance to Conscience: Building a Liberatory Counseling Practice  Featured CE

Grounded in abolitionist, decolonial and justice-centered frameworks, critically examine how white supremacy, compliance culture and institutional harm shape counseling norms, and co-create strategies for building conscience-centered, liberatory practices.


ACA Members
$22.50
Nonmembers
$45

 Continuing Education: 1.5 credit hours

Cybercrime, Technology and Trauma: A New Challenge for Counselors  

Designed to increase counselor awareness of a rapidly evolving issue, explore how technology is changing the landscape of victimization, why traditional assumptions about fraud victims may be inaccurate and the emerging need for specialized awareness and training within the counseling profession.


ACA Members
$15
Nonmembers
$30

 Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

Ways to Receive Continuing Education Credit

ACA Learning Portal

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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Continuing Education Courses

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Featured
Advocacy in Action: From Insight to Impact

Brought to you by ACA President 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

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 ACA Code of Ethics

This three-part interactive course is an in-depth exploration of the ACA Code 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. 
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Certificate in Foundations of Child and Adolescent Counseling

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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Access the New ACA Learning 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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