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.

Counseling Interventions for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review FREE CE

Gain practical insights into evidence-informed counseling strategies that address the complex needs of intimate partner violence victims while promoting safety, empowerment and recovery. Additionally, learn how interventions vary depending on the type of violence present in a relationship.

ACA Members

FREE

Nonmembers

$30

Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

Introducing the ASERVIC (2025) Spiritual and Religious Best Practices Featured CE

In collaboration with Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC), learn the spiritual/religious (S/R) best practices across The Ways Paradigm, how to apply reflection questions that support self-awareness, and to identify resources to grow in the S/R best practices.

ACA Members

FREE

Nonmembers

$30

Continuing Education: 1.0 credit hour

Addiction in LGBTGEQIAP+ Populations Featured CE

Through a trauma-competent, identity-affirming, and ethically precise framework, learn how to respond to addiction-related concerns in LGBTGEQIAP+ populations. Also, explore substance use, behavioral/process compulsions, and relational patterns through a lens that differentiates addiction, compulsion, trauma-shaped regulation and survival responses.

ACA Members

$22.50

Nonmembers

$45

Continuing Education: 1.5 credit hours

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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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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