David Cecil, PhD, LICSW-S
On-Demand Continuing Education for Real Clinical Practice

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 2 weeks to complete
3 months of access to course materials

Practical, evidence-informed continuing education for social workers, counselors, and other mental health professionals—taught by an experienced clinician, educator, and trainer.
Built for Clinical Practice

Practical 

Go beyond theory with training that connects research and clinical knowledge to the decisions you make with clients every day.
Designed for Clinicians 

Engaging

Clear, engaging instruction with clinical examples, demonstrations, and practical applications—not hours of slides being read to you.
Educator-Practitioner

Experienced

Learn from David P. Cecil, PhD, LICSW-S, an experienced psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and longtime university professor.

DSM-5-TR and Psychopharmacology

Take Dr. Cecil's Overview of DSM-5-TR along with CEs focused on specific domains, including Personality, Anxiety and Trauma-Stressor Related, Psychotic Disorders, Bipolar and Depressive, Neurodevelopmental, Neurocognitive, and Feeding and Eating Disorders

Motivational and Clinical Interviewing 

Learn from watching and practicing! These courses focus on how we actually interact with our clients. Dr. Cecil emphasizes a Motivational Interviewing and Emotionally Focused approach to assessment, building rapport, and long-term engagement with our clients. 

Ethics

We all need those Ethics CEs and there are so many important and fascinating nuances to explore. Dr. Cecil will talk you through both the fundamentals of Codes of Ethics (from numerous disciplines) and ethical decision making around a host of important and controversial topics, including use of technology in psychotherapy. 

Clinical Supervision 

Dr. Cecil talks through leading best practices in clinical supervision. He will also talk through various challenges to clinical supervision in modern-day practice, emphasizing cultural humility and productive inter-generational discourse.


Advanced Clinical Interventions

Attachment Theory, Psychoanalytic, Yalom's Existential, Cognitive-Behavioral, Rogerian, Emotionally Focused, and Neurobiologically-Based (e.g., EMDR)... look for these and more here! 
Your learning, your rules

Learn from Someone who Teaches- and Practices

David P. Cecil, PhD, LICSW-S is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, educator, and continuing education presenter with more than two decades of experience in social work education and clinical practice.

After many years as a university professor and academic administrator, Dr. Cecil now maintains a full-time psychotherapy practice while continuing to teach and train mental health professionals. His approach to continuing education combines research, theory, clinical experience, and practical application—with an emphasis on material clinicians can actually use.

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TESTIMONIALS

What others have shared about these CE courses... 

This was the best ethics training I have ever been in. It gave real world situations and then we got to discuss it which also helped understand different points of view.

This was the best DSM course I have ever taken! Informative, engaging, tremendously helpful in navigating the diagnostic manual.
I thought this training was really helpful in refreshing my original learning about psychopharmacology and added to it. I appreciated the ways you were able to explain the science in an engaging and simplified way. I also appreciated ways you engaged the group. 
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How it Works

Choose a course. 
Learn at your pace. 
Complete the assessment. 
Receive your certificate. 

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