Continuing Education to Support the Beautiful Work You Do

Practical CE grounded in research and practice for psychologists, social workers, and counselors, taught by clinicians active in therapy, supervision, and testing.

MQA is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) as a continuing education sponsor for psychologists. Our courses count toward license renewal for psychologists, clinical social workers, and professional counselors, so your whole clinical team can train together without anyone having to find a separate program that counts for them.

Support for your hardest cases

Our clinical CEs focus on the issues that stall treatment, strain your team, and stay on your mind after the session ends.

That starts with the child who hasn’t been to school in six weeks. Our school refusal course covers what works: exposure-based planning, coordinating with schools, and keeping parents from undoing progress at 7 a.m. on a Tuesday. Many of those same families need a clinician who can work with the parents as much as the child. Our parent support training is for clinicians working with parents of kids with big feelings and even bigger behaviors –  parents who are trying their best, feeling exhausted, unseen and defensive and have usually been told what they’re doing wrong by everyone around them.

We also cover eating disorders, where missed signs carry medical risk and generalists are often the first to see a client. Our course on dignity and person-centered care for clients with dementia addresses how to keep the person at the center when cognition is declining and the people around them have started talking over them.

Serving the people you serve, well: structured, practical training in how to do better.

Our courses on cultural humility, implicit bias awareness and mitigation, and microaggressions are about what happens in the room: assumptions in intake questions, comments that damage a therapeutic relationship, and how to repair a rupture when you’ve caused one.

For LGBTQIA+ clients, our course on negativity bias looks at a quieter problem. Much of the research and clinical framing these clients encounter is about risk, pathology, and poor outcomes. When that’s all a clinician brings into the room, clients notice. This course helps clinicians take minority stress seriously without treating a client’s identity as the problem, and make room for resilience, connection, and joy in the treatment plan.

For clinicians working with trans and gender nonconforming clients, we offer training on building therapeutic relationships, and a focused course on gender-affirming care for autistic youth, a population where two areas of specialized knowledge overlap and few clinicians feel prepared for either.

Sex and sexuality in therapy covers the topic most clinicians were not trained to raise and many avoid. Clients bring it up with or without permission: in couples work, after trauma, with medication side effects, and in questions about identity. This course gives clinicians the language and comfort to address it directly and professionally, in a way that affirms the client’s humanity.

Assessment that helps the person it’s about

A testing report follows a child or adult for years. Parents read it, teachers read it, and eventually the client reads it. Our course on writing affirming psychological testing reports shows how to write findings that are accurate and clinically useful without reducing a person to their deficits. The goal is a report that helps the family understand their child and moves services forward.

Moving services forward usually means dealing with the school. Our course on navigating IEPs and 504 plans covers what clinicians need to know and rarely get taught: how eligibility actually works, the difference between a diagnosis and an educational classification, how to write letters and recommendations that school teams can act on, and how to support a family in the meeting without derailing it. Your clinical judgment is only useful to the family if the school can use it.

Staying in this work

Clinicians absorb a lot. Every week your team sits with other people’s worst moments, and that has a cost that doesn’t disappear at the end of the day. Left alone, it shows up as irritability, numbness, cynicism, and eventually resignation letters.

Our course on vicarious trauma names what’s happening, including the early signs clinicians tend to dismiss in themselves and their colleagues. Trauma stewardship goes further: it treats your own mental health as a finite resource, and sustaining yourself in this work as a professional skill. Both courses are especially useful for supervisors, who are often the first to see a clinician struggling and the last to acknowledge it in themselves.

A team that knows how to carry this work stays longer and serves clients better.

Protecting your clients, your team, and your license

Some training is required, and all of it should be engaging and worthy of your time. Our ethics in clinical practice course works through the gray areas clinicians actually face, not a restatement of the code. Telehealth competencies and best practices covers clinical judgment, safety planning, and boundaries when the client is in their car, their kitchen, or another state. Mandated reporter training and sexual harassment prevention are taught by people who understand clinical settings, so the content applies to your work instead of reading like a generic HR module.

Several of these topics meet Illinois license-renewal requirements, so your team can meet its obligations and improve its practice in the same training.

Why clinical teams choose MQA

• Taught by practicing clinicians. Our instructors do this work every week – both as clinicians and as supervisors.
• Designed for teams. When the whole team trains together, consultation improves, handoffs go better, and systemic knowledge gaps are addressed.
• Easy to justify. Each course addresses a specific gap: clinical risk, liability, required training, clinician retention, or populations your team already serves.