We're proud to offer the following continuing education courses to social workers (social work CE) under our ASWB ACE provider approval. To see our complete list of CE provider approvals, visit our Approvals page.
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$24Sexual Desire Discrepancy in Couples
Differences in sexual desire are among the most common struggles that lead couples to seek therapy. Lisa Elieson, LPC teaches you to help couples understand and cope with differences, emerging stronger in their relationship. 1.5 hours CE
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$19Introduction to EMDR Therapy
EMDR Therapy is now considered an evidence-based treatment for PTSD, and has been applied successfully to a variety of other clinical problems. Learn the basics of EMDR Therapy's success. 1 hour CE
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FreeSocial Media Ethics for Mental Health Professionals
Even if you're not on social media, your clients are. Learn how to address concerns related to privacy, confidentiality, and professional ethics on social media. 1 hour CE
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$69Suicide Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention
The US suicide rate is rising. So too is our knowledge of how to effectively assess and intervene. This course reviews current research and strategies to prevent suicide, including surprising findings on what doesn't work. 6 hours CE
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$19Understanding Mixed Race Identity Development
The proportion of US residents who identify as part of more than one racial group is rapidly increasing. Help clients address identity development in supportive and uplifting ways. 1 hour CE
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$19Money and Mental Health
Money is a common source of stress for therapy clients, and a risk factor associated with mental health diagnoses. Learn how money links with mental health, and interventions to address money directly with clients. 1 hour CE
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$19Treating Trauma: The ACT Matrix
The ACT Matrix is a powerful tool for helping clients understand their experience and move out of survival stances. Here, you'll learn to apply the matrix specifically with clients who have experienced trauma. 1 hour CE
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$19Supporting Clients through Incarceration of a Loved One
Millions of Americans are currently incarcerated. The impacts of incarceration can be far-reaching in their families and communities. In this course, learn how to provide support to clients who have loved ones in jail or prison. 1 hour CE
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$39HIPAA Compliance in Group and Private Practice
Privacy is a legal and moral imperative for an effective health care relationship. Taught by a licensed mental health professional, this course covers the basics of HIPAA compliance in a group or private practice environment. 3 hours CE
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$34Decolonizing Clinical Supervision
Supervision in mental health care should be about more than monitoring cases. This course focuses on the self-of-the-supervisor as a means of designing supervision from the ground up as equity work. 2.5 hours CE
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$29"Pure O" OCD Subtypes: How to Identify and Treat Them
“Pure O” OCD hides in plain sight. It is often mistaken for generalized anxiety disorder or typical cognitive distortions. This course will teach you how to unmask this disorder, and treat it using evidence-based techniques. 2 hours CE
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$24Ongoing HIPAA Compliance
If you're working in a setting with established data security policies and practices, this course can help ensure your efforts remain up to date. Includes key action items from a 2020 audit of more than 100 covered entities. 1.5 hours CE
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$29Behavioral Case Formulation
Feeling stuck in therapy, or overwhelmed with too much information about a client? Nikki Rubin is here to help, with clear tools to conceptualize cases and organize therapy. And you don't need to be a behaviorist to use them. 2 hours CE
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$19Talking with Clients about Video Games
Most US adults play video games, and many therapists dismiss or even judge gaming behavior. Using powerful case examples, this course debunks stigmas in the interest of a scientifically robust model of gaming psychology. 1 hour CE
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Emotion Dysregulation Disorders
Learn current conceptualization and treatment options, including the difference between DBT and a DBT-informed approach, for clients who have difficulty regulating their emotional state and corresponding social behavior. 2 hours CE
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HIPAA in the Age of COVID-19
Some parts of HIPAA have been relaxed due to the COVID-19 pandemic - and advocates are hoping for permanent changes to the law. But most of HIPAA is still in full force, and privacy audits have taken on added importance. 1 hour CE
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$19Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
People who self-injure are often misdiagnosed as suicidal, or as having Borderline Personality Disorder. In this course, you'll learn how to differentiate NSSI from those concerns, and how to conceptualize and treat NSSI effectively. 1 hour CE
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$19Professional Wills
If you were in a serious accident this weekend, what would happen to your clients on Monday morning? We review the document that can save your practice if you have a personal emergency: The professional will. 1 hour CE
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$19Ethics: Reconsidering Dual Relationships
Some dual relationships are allowed, even desirable — including some where the dual relationship is known to pose risks. Ben Caldwell reconsiders the conservative approach many therapists take. 1 hour CE
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$69Supervision in Mental Health Care
Good supervision creates young therapists who are both clinically effective and inspired to learn more. Ben Caldwell reviews supervision standards, with focus on current supervision research and specific supervision techniques. 6 hours CE
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$19Fundamentals of Therapy with LGBTQ Clients
Providing a welcoming therapy environment for clients who identify as LGBTQ means much more than avoiding bias. In this workshop, James Guay, LMFT describes what it means to truly practice in ways that affirm and support LGBTQ identity. 1 hour ...
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$19Using Dialectics Across Therapeutic Modalities
Dialectics come from DBT, but they can be useful in other forms of therapy as well. Nikki Rubin gives specific examples of how dialectics can be used to facilitate treatment success in any therapeutic model. 1 hour CE
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FreeTelehealth: Legal and Ethical Issues
It's easier than ever to run a telehealth practice in a way that is fully legally and ethically compliant. Presented from a clinician's perspective, this course details how, including discussion of specific issues like state lines. 1 hour CE
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$24Clients Who Threaten Therapists
Dangerous clients are more common than we might want to believe. This course reviews how therapists can stay safe, while continuing to comply with ethical requirements around confidentiality and non-abandonment. 1.5 hours CE
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$24Ethical Issues in Couple and Family Therapy
Working with couples and families brings unique ethical considerations. Should you take sides in family conflict? Who gets to set therapy goals? This course also addresses consent for treatment, family violence, and more. 1.5 hours CE
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$19Family Interaction Cycles
Families often arrive in therapy with piles of problems. Even in deeply distressed families, the mechanisms that promote and inhibit change can be identified, and maladaptive cycles broken. This course shows you how. 1 hour CE
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$19Family Mapping
Understanding a family's power structure can be a key to effective treatment. This course can help you master the assessment and visual representation of power in a family. Includes case examples showing boundaries and coalitions. 1 hour CE
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$19Resistance in Families
Whether your client is an individual, a couple, or a family, there is a good chance that at least one person is working to make therapy fail. Learn how to overcome resistance by honoring it rather than demonizing it. 1 hour CE
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$39Online Supervision in Mental Health
Supervising online requires technical and supervisory skills that differ from what's needed for in-person supervision. This course helps you have the same inspiring impact on supervisees through technology that you have in person. 3 hours CE
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$24Culturally Responsive Counseling with African American Clients
African American clients often struggle to find therapists who can provide culturally responsive care. This data-rich course will help you combat mental health disparities, providing more effective assessment and treatment. 1.5 hours CE
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$19Treating Health Anxiety
In an environment of heightened anxiety about health, how can you help clients keep their worries from doing more harm than good? Bonnie Zucker provides specific guidance and case examples. 1 hour CE
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$19Kink, BDSM, and Mental Health
Kink and BDSM have long been stigmatized in the mental health community, despite being common and usually harmless. Maria Carrington introduces you to a wide range of relationship types, and their mental health connections. 1 hour CE
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Quarter-Life Crisis
Many young adults are feeling anxious, lonely, and without a path forward. Learn how young adulthood has changed, and help those experiencing a quarter-life crisis rediscover their sense of purpose and belonging. 1 hour CE
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Advanced Technologies in Mental Health Care
Several new technologies show promise for making therapy more effective and efficient. Instead of trying to replicate in-person care, telehealth can advance beyond it. This course examines 11 promising technologies. 1.5 hours CE
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$19Sex Talk: Clinician Edition
Therapists can be great sources of information for our adolescent clients and their families. This course helps you prepare both yourself and the families you work with to have "the talk." 1 hour CE
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$19Informed Consent: New Additions
This course reviews several potential new areas for informed consent, including recording devices, animals in the office, social media, therapist safety, and personal values. Includes sample policy language. 1 hour CE
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Financial Anxiety: Helping Clients with Money Stress
Financial stressors are common among therapy clients. Learn specific tools and techniques for assessment and intervention when client anxiety is based in their financial situation. 1 hour CE
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$19Understanding Polyamory
While non-monogamous relationships are common, clients often struggle to find mental health providers who will accept and affirm those relationships without judgment. Learn more about the range of modern relationship structures. 1 hour CE
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$24Techniques for Mindful Resilience
Trauma doesn't always lead to post-traumatic stress. It can also lead to post-traumatic growth. Learn techniques you can implement immediately to help clients emerge from adversity stronger and more empowered than ever. 1.5 hours CE
ASWB ACE approval
SimplePractice, #1749, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Simple Practice maintains responsibility for these courses. ACE provider approval period: 07/06/2020 – 07/06/2021.