Featured Courses
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$24Providing Effective Therapy for Adult ADHD
This course provides a CBT model to use as a framework to guide treatment in Adult ADHD. Learn to apply existing and well-honed clinical skills in ways that are helpful to individuals with ADHD. 1.5 hours CE
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$24Ways to Protect Your License
This course will review current standards of care that all clinicians need to maintain in order to avoid board complaints or civil lawsuits, and to keep their licenses. 1.5 hours CE
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$24Impasses in Couple Therapy
Even when a couple’s problems seem solvable, progress in couple therapy sometimes stalls, leaving clinicians and clients both frustrated. This course provides guidance for addressing some of the frequent reasons why. 1.5 hours CE
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$29How Trauma Impacts Couple Relationships
Individual trauma histories of adults in a romantic relationship impact couple treatment. In this course, learn to understand and address trauma responses in relationships through specific exercises. 2 hours CE
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$44Supervision and Supervisee Well-Being
Prelicensed therapists receive mixed messages about self-care. Learn how to create a supervisory environment that prioritizes the wellbeing of supervisees while simultaneously upholding, and even enhancing, clinical instruction. 3.5 hours CE
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$24Simple Approaches to Complex Bereavement
Learn ways to identify and approach complex grief in session, and come away feeling confident and well-prepared to manage cases of complex bereavement. 1.5 hours CE
Featured Collections
Save when you buy courses together
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$79Ethics CE Collection: 6 hours
Stay current with professional ethics through this collection of uniquely focused courses. Titles include Ethics: Reconsidering Dual Relationships, Secrets and Lies: The Ethics of Truth in Therapy, and more. 4 courses | 6 total hrs CE
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$14912-hour CE Collection
Topics in this unique and engaging collection of CE for counselors and therapists include the ACT Matrix, behavioral case formulation, video games, resistance in families, and more. 9 courses | 12 total hrs CE
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$189California First Renewal Collection
Meet California's CE requirements for first licensure renewal as an LMFT, LPCC, or LCSW. Includes BBS-required 7-hour HIV Awareness course, 6 hours on Law & Ethics, and 5 hours on other clinical topics. 18 total hours CE
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$149Supervision CE Collection: 15 hours
Learn a wide range of supervision models, techniques, and activities in this collection. Teach supervisors to be effective and inspired as they meet their requirements for licensure. Meets CA BBS requirement. 3 courses | 15 total hours CE
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$139California Law & Ethics CE Collection: 6 hours plus Basics of California Law digital book
A full suite of California Law & Ethics resources: All 6 hours of required Law & Ethics CE for renewal as California LMFT, LPCC, or LCSW, and a digital copy of Basics of California Law for LMFTs, LPCCs, and LCSWs (9th ed)
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$79California Law & Ethics CE Collection: 6 hours
Complete all 6 hours of Law & Ethics CE for California LMFT, LPCC, or LCSW renewal. Includes Reconsidering Dual Relationships, California Telehealth Law, Ongoing HIPAA Compliance & more. 5 courses | 6 total hours CE
Annual Review
Ensure your documentation and security practices are up to date.
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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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$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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$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
New Courses
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$79HIV & AIDS Awareness for Mental Health Providers
While HIV treatment is improving, it remains a worldwide epidemic. We review current HIV and AIDS research, guidelines for therapists working with HIV-positive clients, handling confidentiality, and more. 7 hours CE
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$24Parent-Child Conflict: Practical Interventions
Learn a variety of well-supported interventions that can help caregivers to change problematic child behaviors without fracturing their relationship with the child. 1.5 hours CE
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$24Advanced PTSD Case Conceptualization
With clients suffering from PTSD, it's easy to fall into the clinical trap of managing present-day symptoms. This course will help you conceptualize and address the underlying trauma itself, driving progress from the inside out. 1.5 hours CE
Featured Law & Ethics Courses
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$29Secrets and Lies: The Ethics of Truth in Therapy
Clients lie to therapists with surprising regularity -- and there are times when therapists lie to clients, too. In this advanced workshop, we critically examine the moral and ethical framework around truth in therapy. 2 hours 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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$24Ethics: Self-Disclosure in Therapy
How much should clients know about you? New scholarship is drawing distinctions between different kinds of self-disclosure. This course addresses such areas as religion, political affiliation, and experience with mental illness. 1.5 hours CE
Featured Telehealth Courses
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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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Ongoing 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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$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
Featured Couple & Family Courses
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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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$19Infidelity Counseling: Treating Couples in Crisis
Infidelity raises complex clinical issues, and also challenges therapists in a variety of ways. This course examines the complexity within a systematic process of helping couples recover and heal from infidelity. 1 hour 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
CE Provider Approvals
SimplePractice is approved as a continuing education provider by the following organizations. In addition to those listed below, we also are approved by a number of state-specific boards. Please see our Approvals page for complete information. Not all approvals apply to all courses; see course pages for specific applicable approvals.
SimplePractice is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SimplePractice maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Not all courses provide continuing education for psychologists; please see specific course pages for applicable approval and credit information.
SimplePractice has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6961. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. SimplePractice is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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 this course. ACE provider approval period: 07/06/2021 – 07/06/2024.
SimplePractice is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LPCCs, LCSWs, and LEPs (CAMFT CEPA provider #145276). SimplePractice maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Courses meet the qualifications for the listed hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
SimplePractice has been approved as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, NAADAC Provider #186410. SimplePractice is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Click here to view our complete CE approval information, and here for more information about NAADAC approved continuing education providers. Not all courses provide NAADAC continuing education credit; please see specific course pages for applicable approval and credit information.
State-specific approvals: see our Approvals page