Trauma-Informed
Care Institute
Board-Approved
Trauma-Informed Care
Certification
100% Online • 6.5 CE Hours • Lifetime Access
Open to the Public, No Prerequisites
accredited for 6.5 CE hours
with the following institutions
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Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, AMA PRA Category 1™
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Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, ACPE CPE
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American Nurses Credentialing Center, ANCC NCPD (CNE)
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American Academy of PAs, AAPA Category 1
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American Dental Association, ADA-CERP CDE
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American Psychological Association, APA CE
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Association of Social Work Boards, ASWB-ACE
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Commission on Dietetic Registration, CDR CPE
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Board of Certification for the Athletic Trainer, BOC CEUs
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Interprofessional Continuing Education: IPCE
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Or, 20 CEU's with the American Naturopathic medical Certification Board.
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View the full Activity Detail Page (ADP) HERE
After working with thousands of clients and closely with practitioners from various fields, I began to see a pattern I couldn’t ignore.
People said they wanted to heal. They showed up. They followed the plan.
But their results didn’t match their effort.
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That’s when I looked deeper, beyond symptoms and surface behaviors, and what I found changed everything. Adverse childhood experiences and unresolved trauma were quietly shaping every action, reaction, belief, and motivation. Even when someone wanted to change, their nervous system kept pulling them back into old patterns of protection.
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That realization became the heartbeat of this work.
I created the Trauma-Informed Care Certification to help medical professionals, holistic practitioners, and anyone in a position of influence understand why people behave the way they do and how to create the safety that finally allows healing to begin.
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Lisa Ramos, Ph.D.(c), MS
Co-Founder & Lead Trainer, Trauma-Informed Care Institute
Who is this program for?
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Doctors
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Physician Assistants
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Nurses
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Social Workers
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Psychologists
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Pharmacists
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Dentists
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Dietitians/CNS's
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Naturopaths
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Holistic Practitioners ​
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Health Coaches
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Teachers
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Clergy/Spiritual Counselors​
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And, anyone that works with people in an influential capacity.
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And, anyone working with clients online or in-person with the purpose of creating a healing atmosphere or implementing change.
Trauma-Informed Care benefits both you and the client
Trauma-informed care goes beyond traditional support by recognizing how past experiences can shape a person’s behaviors, beliefs, and nervous system responses. This approach is not just beneficial; it’s transformative for both the client and the practitioner.
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Safety and Respect: Clients are more likely to open up and engage in the healing process when they feel seen, heard, and not judged.
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Reduces Retraumatization: Instead of pushing through resistance, trauma-informed care meets clients where they are, avoiding triggers and honoring their pace.
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Deeper, More Lasting Healing: By addressing root causes rather than just symptoms, clients experience profound shifts in emotional, mental, and physical well-being.
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Empowers Self-Agency: Clients are active participants in their healing, learning to trust themselves and their bodies again.
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For the Practitioner:​
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Increases Client Retention and Trust: When clients feel safe and understood, they return and they refer others.
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Creates Clearer Boundaries: Trauma-informed frameworks help practitioners avoid enmeshment or burnout by staying grounded and regulated themselves.
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Enhances Skillset and Confidence: Practitioners become more effective, especially with sensitive or resistant clients, by learning to interpret dysregulation and co-regulate with compassion.
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Reduces Compassion Fatigue: Working from a place of understanding rather than frustration, lightens the emotional load and makes the work more sustainable and rewarding.
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Trauma-informed care doesn’t just support healing, it protects the process. It builds bridges of trust, deepens results, and allows both client and practitioner to thrive in a relationship built on safety, choice, and mutual respect.
What's Inside the Program?
Module 1
Lesson 1: Redefining Trauma
In this lesson we pick up where most programs end and truly redefine trauma in a way that supports depth of understanding. ​
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Lesson 2: Types of Trauma and the lived experience
Discover the many types of trauma and how these influence the lived experience from childhood to adulthood, and even as a practitioner.
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Lesson 3: How trauma Imbeds in the brain and body
Dive into the brain and body to uncover the way trauma embeds itself into these areas to create long-term echoes in all aspects of health.
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Lesson 4: The lived reality of trauma
It's not enough to understand trauma; we need to understand the lived reality. Words on paper and lived experience are often two different things.
Lesson 5: The core principles of trauma-Informed care
This lesson teaches the core principals of trauma-informed care and how these will apply in real practice.
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Lesson 6: Creating safe spaces for healing
Safe spaces include the physical space and virtual spaces in our practice. Learn how the brain and body perceive the space to create safety.
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Lesson 7: The Power of the client/practitioner relationship
What we do as practitioners can be absolutely beautiful and life-changing as well as draining and exhausting....until now. Learn how to use this to support our clients while keeping ourselves from secondary trauma or compassion fatigue.
6.5 CE Hours with AMA, ACPE, ANCC, AAPA, ADA-CERP, APA, ASWB, CDR, BOC, IPCE & ANMCB (20 CEU's)
Module 2
Lesson 1: What the brain does with threat
Discover the process the brain takes when there is perceived or real threat.
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Lesson 2: Shame: The brain under siege: the threat circuitry
Dive deeper into threat and uncover the threat circuitry and how it evolves past just stress to the mind and body.
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Lesson 3: Polyvagal theory and the window of tolerance
Understand how to identify the client's window of tolerance (or, even your own) and how to gradually expand that to balance the nervous system.
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Lesson 4: The Body Remembers: Trauma and chronic illness
There is extensive research showing the impact of stress on the body. In this lesson, you will learn how the body holds on to this and chronic illness can result.
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Lesson 5: The hope of neuroplasticity
Trauma-Informed Care is more than just knowledge, it's about learning to genuinely support our patients for long-term recovery. This lesson begins that journey!
Module 3
Lesson 1: Rethinking behavior: Trauma's survival strategies
Behavior isn't simple, nor is it just personality. Behavior oftentimes is the manifestation of a person's survival strategies.
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Lesson 2: Shame: The hidden driver of behavior
Whether the client (or ourselves) is the victim of major trauma or simply under chronic stress, shame shows up. Discover why and what we can do about it.
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Lesson 3: Dissociation: When disconnection becomes protection
Dissociation is a natural process, but when it goes into overdrive to protect the mind/body it can silently start cutting out the parts of life that are meaningful.
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Lesson 4: Hypervigilance: Living in survival mode
Survival mode is far more common now than it was even a decade ago. However, the body cannot thrive in this mode.
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Lesson 5: People-Pleasing: Safety through self-erasure
With some types of trauma our clients begin to self-erase or start to push themselves away to the point that some may not even know who they are or what they enjoy anymore.
6.5 CE Hours with AMA, ACPE, ANCC, AAPA, ADA-CERP, APA, ASWB, CDR, BOC, IPCE & ANMCB (20 CEU's)
Module 4
Lesson 1: What makes a space "safe"?
A key component of TIC is safety. In this lesson we talk about how to make both virtual and in-person spaces safe for the client.
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Lesson 2: Attunement over intervention
As educated professionals we may want to offer interventions, but that can retraumatize. This lesson teaches how to meet the client where they are at.
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Lesson 3: choice, voice, and collaboration
It is important to always protect the choice, voice, and collaboration ability of our clients. Without these, safety is lost and client results are limited.
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Lesson 4: structure without control
This lesson dives into how to build structure without it seeming like a control mechanism. It gives predictability and consistency....two things clients need.
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Lesson 5: invitations, not expectations
With experience we learn that clients don't always do what they say they will, or even apply what they learn. Trauma is often the cause, learn how to invite, rather than expect to get better adherence.
Module 5
Lesson 1: Why relationship is the foundation of healing
The client's relationships with friends, family, and co-workers are a crucial piece in true healing. Discover why in this lesson.
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Lesson 2: understanding attachment: Infancy to adulthood
Attachment is not a choice, it just happens. However, the quality or type of attachment can be healthy or unhealthy.
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Lesson 3: Co-Regulation: The missing ingredient in most clinical models
Co-regulation is a critical piece of the trauma-informed puzzle. However, how it's handled is as important as its existence.
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Lesson 4: repairing rupture: The heart of relational Healing
Rupture is a moment where connection was broken. While viewed negatively, it is inevitable and can be used as powerful lesson.
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Lesson 5: The practitioner as a healing relationship
What is your role in relationship? Is there one? How to care, without secondary trauma? All important questions.
6.5 CE Hours with AMA, ACPE, ANCC, AAPA, ADA-CERP, APA, ASWB, CDR, BOC, IPCE & ANMCB (20 CEU's)
Module 6
Lesson 1: Why the body matters in trauma recovery
Too often the body is overlooked in trauma recovery, but as most readers probably know, the body is where trauma manifests. Similarly, it also needs attention in recovery.
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Lesson 2: Survival imprints and somatic memory
Somatic exercises help, but to truly process trauma in the long-term it is important to understand the survival imprints coupled with somatic memory.
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Lesson 3: The body's protective patterns
To restore safety, you must first decode the protective patterns. Without doing so, they will remain and resurface when life becomes hard in the future.
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Lesson 4: grounding, movement, and rhythmic regulation
These are not just alternative treatments, they have scientific backing and very specific purposes within the nervous system recovery process.
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Lesson 5: restoring connection through the body
You cannot treat the mind with the mind. You can not will yourself out of psychological concerns. The body is an important and often overlooked component.
Module 7
Lesson 1: Trauma in the bloodline: What we Inherit
This is sometimes called generational trauma, trauma cycles, or even bad parenting but the truth is our trauma coping strategies matter and do pass if they remain unresolved. Learn to teach how to stop this.
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Lesson 2: Racialized trauma and the nervous system
Racial trauma will come up in practice because it is a very real and sad fact of life. But, it can be uncomfortable for some practitioners. This lesson teaches how to navigate this important type of trauma.
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Lesson 3: Collective memory, silence, and survival
In this lesson you will dive into the collective memory such as with families or large social groups and how some people use silence to cope with trauma.
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Lesson 4: Cultural Humility in trauma-informed care
This is an important lesson within TIC because it's about us as the practitioner. It teaches us how to set our own culture aside to keep the space safe for culturally diverse individuals.
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Lesson 5: Repair, resilience, and reclamation
As a practitioner (or anyone) you will have "ruptures" or mistakes that happen. However, these moments give us the ability to repair and show with action that mistakes don't end a relationship.
Module 8
Lesson 1: Your nervous system is the intervention
This entire module changes focusing on the client to focusing on the practitioner. In this lesson you discover the state of your own nervous system and how to use it to support healing in your clients.
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Lesson 2: boundaries are not walls: they're containers
As professionals we must have boundaries, but those boundaries can be presented in a way that adds to the safety and trust our clients feel.
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Lesson 3: co-regulation without enmeshment
You will co-regulate with or without TIC, but without TIC, enmeshment is far more likely. Enmeshment is when you begin to take home the concerns of your clients and/or see yourself in their trauma.​
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Lesson 4: secondary trauma and compassion fatigue
The better you become as a practitioner the more risk you are of getting secondary trauma (perceiving the client's trauma as your own) or falling into compassion fatigue. But, not if you are trauma-informed.
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Lesson 5: supervision, support and ethical self-awareness
In this module we discuss who needs supervision, how it can help, and whether you find a mentor. We also dive into support and discuss ethical self-awareness.
Module 9
Lesson 1: How to conduct a trauma-informed session
At this point we get technical. You will learn a step-by-step approach to adding TIC to your client sessions/appointments without diminishing what you already do.
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Lesson 2: How to apply this work to any modality or setting
This course is designed for anyone working with humans in almost any capacity. For that reason we designed this lesson to be sure that no matter your profession, you will be prepared to add TIC to your business easily.
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Lesson 3: Case study examples
This lesson gives you case study examples so that you can see TIC in action!
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Lesson 4: Resources
This lesson holds all the resources you will need to implement trauma-informed care and feel confident doing so.
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Lesson 5: Certification and CEU's
Congratulations! This is where you get certified and receive your CEUs for adding this very important work to your business. At this point you will stand out above others in your field as a Certified Trauma-Informed Practitioner. (Optional: Board certification is available and granted through the American Naturopathic Medical Certification Board.)
What do prior students say
Dr. Emily Navarro, Naturopathic Doctor
“This trauma-informed certification completely transformed the way I approach patient care. As a naturopath, I’ve always focused on root causes, but now I realize trauma is often the deepest layer. The course helped me understand the nervous system on a whole new level and gave me gentle, practical tools I could immediately use in my practice. My patients feel more seen, and their healing has become more complete. This training is a must for any holistic practitioner.”
Daniel Cho, LMFT,
Trauma Therapist
“Even with years of clinical experience, this certification opened my eyes to nuances I hadn’t fully integrated into my practice. I especially appreciated the emphasis on safety, regulation, and embodiment. It’s a powerful bridge between traditional therapy and holistic approaches, something the field has been missing. I highly recommend it to any therapist looking to deepen their trauma-informed lens.”
Dr. LAura,
Primary Care
Before this course, I had not considered systemic and generational trauma, how inequities, racism, poverty, and family histories of oppression affect clients. I also never thought about past medical trauma or experiences and how it affects my clients current actions. I now understand how to create a safe environment, where clients and colleagues feel validated and supported rather than pathologized.
It's your turn to become
certified in trauma-informed care!
Start Your Trauma-Informed Care Certification Today
Board-Approved • 100% Online • CE Credits Included
What you get:
​In addition to CE credits for 9 national boards (or 20 CEU's with the ANMCB) and certification you will get: ​
Open to the public, no prior education required.
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9 Powerful Modules
47 self-paced lessons, grounded in trauma-informed science and real-life strategies. (Lessons are 15 min or less, so even the busiest practitioners can implement the concepts.) -
Printable's & Tools You’ll Actually Use
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Clear, Practical Strategies
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Support
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Lifetime Access
Go at your own pace, revisit anytime, and return to the tools whenever you need them most.​​
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Regular Enrollment - $697
Enroll Today - For Just $297
Includes Certification and CE Hours
Click Here for CE credit details
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For details on 501c3 or in-person events please contact support@traumainformedcareinstitute.com
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Meet Your Instructor
Lisa Ramos, Ph.d. (c) Health Psychology
Lisa Ramos is an educator, and founder of the Trauma-Informed Care Institute. She specializes in bridging the gap between clinical science and compassionate practice, helping healthcare and mental health professionals integrate trauma-informed principles into patient care.
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With a Master’s in Psychology and advanced doctoral work in Health Psychology, Lisa has spent over a decade studying the intersection of trauma, physiology, and human behavior. She completed trauma-informed care training through Harvard Medical School, which deeply shaped her approach to healthcare education and practitioner wellness.
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Lisa and her husband co-founded the Trauma-Informed Care Institute, which became the first program to offer Board Certification in Trauma-Informed Care and is now accredited across nine national CE boards, including the ACCME (AMA PRA Category 1™), ANCC, APA, ASWB, and CDR.​
FAQs
Q: Is this course only for mental health professionals?
A: No. This course is for anyone working with humans such as MDs, RNs, NDs, nutritionists, teacher, coaches, holistic practitioners, Yoga instructors, clergy, and so much more. If you work in an authoritative role with people, this course is for you!
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Q: How long will I have access to the course?
A: Lifetime access, including all future updates.
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Q: Do I need prior training?
A: Not at all. The course is designed to take you from foundational understanding to applied confidence.
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Q: I have no formal training, can I still take this course?
A: Definitely, there are no prerequisites required. Upon completion of the course you can begin working with clients as a Trauma-Informed Practitioner. Completion of the course also will qualify you for board certification through the ANMCB.
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Q: Can I get more information about the continuing education and your accreditation?
A: Absolutely, In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Pinnacle Conference, LLC and Trauma-Informed Care Institute. Pinnacle Conference, LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity is accredited for 6.5 CE hours with the following institutions
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Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, AMA PRA Category 1™
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, ACPE CPE
American Nurses Credentialing Center, ANCC NCPD (CNE)
American Academy of PAs, AAPA Category 1
American Dental Association, ADA-CERP CDE
American Psychological Association, APA CE
Association of Social Work Boards, ASWB-ACE
Commission on Dietetic Registration, CDR CPE
Board of Certification for the Athletic Trainer, BOC CEUs
Interprofessional Continuing Education: IPCE
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Click Here to see full credit details. ​
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Q: Is this self-paced? How long does it take to complete?
A: Yes, it is self-paced. Timing depends on you. We've had students finish within a couple weeks and others take months.
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Q: I want to take the course but already did my CEs this year. Can I get them to apply to next year?
A: CEs are granted at the time of completion of your final exam (open book) and project. You can delay these by not submitting your final information until you need them.
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Q. Does the ANMCB charge for the Board Certification and do they require anything besides your course?
A. Great questions! The ANMCB does not require any further education or testing. The only requirements are completion of our program, your application, and an application fee (this varies and is collected by the ANMCB) to gain the title of "Board-Certified Trauma-Informed Care Practitioner (BCTP)". Learn more about the ANMCB and our program partnership here (our program is near the bottom of the page) https://www.anmcb.org/certification-1
