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.

Client-initiated Workplace Violence Among Counselors FREE CE

Learn the prevalence and types of client-initiated workplace violence experienced by counselors, where it most frequently occurs, and evaluate the recommended implications for training, supervision and workplace policy development.

ACA Members

FREE

Nonmembers

$30

Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

Grief and Photography Featured CE

Explore how photography can help process grief and the theoretical underpinnings for how the act of creating, viewing, and sharing images can help make meaning of loss, preserve memories, and externalize complex emotions.

ACA Members

$15

Nonmembers

$30

Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

How Counselors Can Initiate Change in Their Communities Featured CE

In collaboration with the International Association of Addictions and Offender Counselors, learn about the concept of community readiness and an assessment tool to determine a baseline of readiness to change.

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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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 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 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.

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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Coming Soon — A New Learning Experience

Effective February 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 webinars and more!

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