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Next Renewal: Mar 30th, 2025
30 CE credit hours required every 2 years — 30 may be earned with Addiction Counselor CE.
Applies To:
- Florida Social Workers
- Florida Counselors
- Florida Marriage & Family Therapists

Addiction Counselor CE’s distant learning courses meet qualifications for continuing education credit for MFT’s, LCSW’s, LMHC’s, as required by the Florida Board, and is fully compatible with Florida’s CE Broker system. Simply enter your Florida state license code using the link provided in your member account.
Licensees are required to completed 30 credit hours every renewal period.
Continuing Education Requirements:
- General Hours: 25 hours required every biennium
- Medical Errors: 2 hours required every biennium
- Ethics & Boundaries or Telehealth: 3 hours required every biennium ( you must alternate this requirement. If you take ethics for one renewal, you must take telehealth for the next.)
- Laws & Rules: 3 hours required every third biennium
- Domestic Violence: 2 hours required every third biennium
Qualified Supervisors must take a 4 credit Qualified Supervisor training every third biennium. We do not currently offer a course that meets this requirement.
View the “Special Requirements” tab for ethics, laws and rules, medical errors, and domestic violence courses that are approved by the board.
Addiction Counselor CE, a service of CE Learning Systems, is approved to offer continuing education courses by the Association of State Social Work Boards (ASWB #1020) and National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC #5951). CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for the courses.
Board Contact Info
4042 Bald Cypress Way
Tallahassee , FL
Phone: 850-488-0595
Website: https://floridasmentalhealthprofessions.gov
Prevention of Medical Errors, 2 CE credit hours
We recommend Medical (Behavioral Healthcare Practice) Errors, course # 101522.
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Addiction Counselor CE offers 1 course applicable to this requirement.
101522: Medical (Behavioral Healthcare Practice) Errors, 4 CE credit hours
Laws and Rules, 3 CE credit hours
Every third biennum after initial licensure, a licensee must complete 3 hour laws and rules continuing education units. This is the only course that offer for that requirement and it can be taken once each renewal period.
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Addiction Counselor CE offers 1 course applicable to this requirement.
102084: A Review of the Florida Laws and Rules for Mental Health Practitioners, 3 CE credit hours
Ethics and Boundaries, 3 CE credit hours
Courses must be taken in alternating biennial renewal periods. One period should be ethics and boundaries and the next period should be telehealth.
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Addiction Counselor CE offers 29 courses applicable to this requirement.
103329: Ethical Humility in Social Work, 1.5 CE credit hour - 103321: Ethics and Risk Management Issues in Supervision, 3 CE credit hours
- 103300: National Board for Certified Counselors Code of Ethics 2023, 1 CE credit hour
- 103299: Ethical Courage: Accessing Your Ethical Superpowers, 3 CE credit hours
- 103295: Maintaining Appropriate Professional Boundaries: Exploring Ethical Obligations of Mental Health Professionals, 3 CE credit hours
- View All 29 Courses
Domestic Violence, 2 CE credit hours
Every third renewal, you must complete a two hour continuing education course on domestic violence.
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Addiction Counselor CE offers 13 courses applicable to this requirement.
103330: A Systematic Review of Intimate Partner Violence Interventions Focused on Improving Social Support And/ Mental Health Outcomes of Survivors, 2 CE credit hours - 103266: Is All Dating Violence Equal?, 2.25 CE credit hours
- 103245: Violence Against Older Women, 3 CE credit hours
- 103235: Improving the Mental Health of Women Intimate Partner Violence Survivors:, 1.5 CE credit hour
- 103214: Impacts of Male Intimate Partner Violence on Women: A Life Course Perspective, 1 CE credit hour
- View All 13 Courses
Telehealth, 3 CE credit hours
Courses must be taken in alternating biennial renewal periods. One period should be ethics and boundaries and the next period should be telehealth.
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Addiction Counselor CE offers 11 courses applicable to this requirement.
103340: Walking the Ethical Line in Providing Telemental Health Services, 3 CE credit hours - 103270: "It's Splendid Once You Grow Into It:" Client Experiences of Relational Teletherapy in the Era of COVID-19, 1 CE credit hour
- 103268: Online and Distance Behavioral Health Practitioners: Ethics and Risk-management Challenges, 3 CE credit hours
- 103267: Covid 19 and Telehealth With Children: What Have We Learned, 1.5 CE credit hour
- 103254: Risk Assessment and Crisis Intervention for Youth in a Time of Telehealth, 1.5 CE credit hour
- View All 11 Courses
Sex Therapy Training (Applies only for sex therapist)
This specialized topic requires special board approval.
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We do not currently offer courses to fulfill this requirement.
Hypnosis Training (Applies only for those performing hypnotherapy)
Courses for this specialized topic require special approval from the board.
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We do not currently offer courses to fulfill this requirement.
Supervisory Initial Training (Applies to supervisors), 12 CE credit hours
Courses for this specialized topic of training requires special approval from the board and it must be 16 hours of live interaction training. This requirement cannot be fulfilled with online coursework. Please check your state board requirements.
This requirement cannot be completed with online coursework.
Qualified Supervisor Renwal Course, 4 CE credit hours
This course meets the requirement of section 64B-6.0025 for qualified supervisors looking to renew their qualified supervisor status.
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We do not currently offer courses to fulfill this requirement.
Course Description | Medium |
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Transdiagnostic Treatment of Anxiety and Related Disorders
3 CE credit hours
Application to Practice; Counseling (Theory and Techniques) |
Recorded Webinar |
Walking the Ethical Line in Providing Telemental Health Services
3 CE credit hours
Ethics; Technology and Counseling; Ethics; Technology |
Recorded Webinar |
Mood and Anxiety Symptoms in Persons Taking Prescription Opioids: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analyses of Longitudinal Studies
1.25 CE credit hour
Treatment Knowledge; Application to Practice |
Reading-Based Online |
Real-time Social Stress Response and Subsequent Alcohol Use Initiation Among Female Adolescents
1.5 CE credit hour
Counseling (Theory and Techniques); Treatment Knowledge; Understanding Addiction |
Reading-Based Online |
CBT Supervision Behind Closed Doors: Supervisor and Supervisee Reflections on Their Experiences and Use of Clinical Supervision
1 CE credit hour
Supervision; Supervision |
Reading-Based Online |
Ethical Humility in Social Work
1.5 CE credit hour
Ethics; Ethics; Prevention |
Reading-Based Online |
Exploring Evidenced-Based Therapies for Suicide
3 CE credit hours
Application to Practice; Treatment Knowledge; Counseling (Theory and Techniques); Clinical Topics & Methods; Suicide |
Recorded Webinar |
Narcissistic Abuse 101
3 CE credit hours
Clinical Topics & Methods; Counseling (Theory and Techniques); Application to Practice |
Recorded Webinar |
Ethics and Risk Management Issues in Supervision
3 CE credit hours
Ethics; Ethics; Supervision; Supervision |
Recorded Webinar |
Native Spirit: Development of a Culturally Grounded After‐school Program to Promote Well‐being Among American Indian Adolescents
1 CE credit hour
Prevention; Cultural & Racial Diversity; Children and Adolescents; Cultural Diversity |
Reading-Based Online |