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
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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
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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
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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 28 courses applicable to this requirement.
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
- 103287: Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in Behavioral Health, 3 CE credit hours
- 103283: Ethics & Cultural Diversity Training: Termination, Abandonment, Cultural Humility and Ethical Considerations, 3 CE credit hours
- View All 28 Courses
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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 12 courses applicable to this requirement.
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
- 103035: Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy for Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence-a Systematic Review, 1 CE credit hour
- View All 12 Courses
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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 10 courses applicable to this requirement.
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
- 103230: Lessons Learned Conducting Dialectical Behavior Therapy Via Telehealth in the Age of COVID-19, 1.5 CE credit hour
- View All 10 Courses
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Course Description | Medium |
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Ethical Courage: Accessing Your Ethical Superpowers
3 CE credit hours
Ethics; Ethics |
Recorded Webinar |
Maintaining Appropriate Professional Boundaries: Exploring Ethical Obligations of Mental Health Professionals
3 CE credit hours
Ethics; Ethics |
Recorded Webinar |
Introduction to the EMDR Model
2 CE credit hours
Clinical Topics & Methods; Clinical Disorders (Adult); Counseling (Theory and Techniques); Understanding Addiction; Application to Practice; Treatment Knowledge |
Recorded Webinar |
Time for a Paradigm Shift: The Adolescent Brain in Addiction Treatment
1.75 CE credit hour
Addictions, Substance Use; Children and Adolescents; Understanding Addiction; Application to Practice; Counseling (Theory and Techniques); Treatment Knowledge |
Reading-Based Online |
Alcohol Use Disorder: The Role of Medication in Recovery
1.25 CE credit hour
Addictions, Substance Use; Medical Health, Pharmacology; Application to Practice; Pharmacology; Treatment Knowledge |
Reading-Based Online |
Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in Behavioral Health: Ethics and Risk Management Challenges
3 CE credit hours
Ethics; Ethics |
Recorded Webinar |
Unwinding Anxiety: New science shows how to break the cycles of worry and fear to heal your mind
14 CE credit hours
Counseling (Theory and Techniques); Application to Practice; Treatment Knowledge; Clinical Topics & Methods |
Book |
Ethics & Cultural Diversity Training: Termination, Abandonment, Cultural Humility and Ethical Considerations: Meets ethics requirement for NY Psychologists
3 CE credit hours
Ethics; Ethics; Cultural Diversity; Cultural & Racial Diversity |
Recorded Webinar |
Polyvagal Theory and Evidenced Based Interventions for Arousal Dysregulation in PTSD
3 CE credit hours
Counseling (Theory and Techniques); Application to Practice; Treatment Knowledge; Clinical Topics & Methods |
Recorded Webinar |
Cocaine Use Disorder (CUD): Current Clinical Perspectives
1.5 CE credit hour
Understanding Addiction; Treatment Knowledge; Application to Practice; Addictions, Substance Use |
Reading-Based Online |