Continuing Education

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.

Latent Profiles of Counselor Burnout: Associations with Self-Discrepancy FREE CE

In this text-based CE, identify heterogeneous counselor burnout profiles using a latent profile analysis and examine the profiles in association with counselors’ personal and professional self-discrepancies in counselor qualities.

ACA Members

FREE

Nonmembers

$30

Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

Social Anxiety Disorder: An Overview Featured CE

Become familiar with a cognitive-behavioral understanding of social anxiety disorder and the underlying processes that perpetuate impairment, and learn a variety of cognitive, behavioral and mindfulness interventions to help manage the disorder.

ACA Members

$15

Nonmembers

$30

Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

When Counseling and Medication Isn’t Enough Featured CE

Explore neurophysiological dysregulation and examine how neurocounseling and neurofeedback may be used to support healthier neurophysiological self-regulation, leading to improved counseling outcomes.

ACA Members

$22.50

Nonmembers

$45

Continuing Education: 1.5 credit hour

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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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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