Tools for staying license-ready.
Practical checklists, guides, templates, and calculators for continuing-education compliance and license renewal, for clinical social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, addiction counselors, and psychiatric nurse practitioners. They’re free to use, written in plain language, and grounded in how real practices and professionals actually track their hours.
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What to Keep for a CE Audit
Learn what boards ask for when they audit CE, how long every state says to keep certificates, what the audit notice looks like, and how long you get to answer. It also explains why audits fail and includes a printable checklist.
Counseling Compact States: Map, Live States, How It Works
See which states have enacted the Counseling Compact, which are issuing privileges to practice, who qualifies, how to apply through CompactConnect, and why the compact isn't reciprocity. Membership is verified against the Commission and dated.
US Mental Health Workforce: Open Dataset
See where 1.4M+ active mental-health providers practice, with per-capita density for every state and county from the NPPES registry, the provider-type mix, and registry-entry trends. The CSV downloads are free under CC BY 4.0.
State of Mental Health CE Requirements 2026
Our annual report ranks CE burden across all 50 states for LCSW, LPC, LMFT, licensed psychologists and addiction counselors. It also covers ethics minimums, online CE caps, and one-time mandates, drawn from 400+ board-verified rulesets.
What Counts as Ethics CE
This practical guide explains what boards and credentialing bodies usually mean by ethics CE, where requirements differ, and how to verify a course before renewal.
Group Practice CE Compliance Checklist
This 15-section operational checklist helps you track clinician licenses, renewals, ethics hours, and audit readiness across a whole roster.
How to count one CE course toward ethics and general hours
Record a partial-ethics course once, with the correct hours for each category. Includes 7-hour and half-hour examples.
PMHNP CE Requirements by State
See every credential a psychiatric nurse practitioner renews in each state: the RN and APRN licenses, any state controlled substance registration, the ANCC certification and the DEA registration, with the pharmacology and prescribing hours each board sets.
Addiction Counselor CE Requirements by State
See what each state board asks licensed and certified addiction counselors to complete before renewal, including total hours, ethics minimums, and the share that must be specific to substance use disorders, sourced from the board itself.
Addiction Counselor CE Hours Calculator
Pick your state to prefill the real board numbers, then set your completed hours to see what an addiction counselor still needs: hours left, ethics left, and a monthly pace.
How to Become an LCSW in Florida
A first-license guide to social work education, intern registration, supervised experience, the ASWB Clinical exam, required courses and application fees.
How to Become an LMHC in Florida
A first-license guide to counseling education and accreditation, intern registration, supervised experience, the NCMHCE and application fees.
Psychologist CE Requirements by State
See what each state board asks licensed psychologists to complete before renewal, including total hours, ethics or law minimums, and one-time mandates like suicide-risk training, sourced from the board itself for all 50 states.
Psychologist CE Hours Calculator
Pick your state to prefill the real board numbers, then set your completed hours to see what a licensed psychologist still needs: hours left, ethics left, and a monthly pace.
Ethics CE Requirements by State
This single table shows every state's explicit ethics minimum for LCSW, LPC, LMFT, psychologist and addiction counselor licensees, with each board's own name for the requirement and links to the full rules.
Online CE Limits by State
See which states still cap self-study or recorded CE, with the exact hour caps, percentage caps, and live-hours minimums, plus the states with no stated limit.
Baker Act Training in Florida
Find out who actually needs a Baker Act certificate, what the training covers, whether it counts toward Florida CE hours, and how to pick an online course.
Florida Domestic Violence CE Requirement
Florida LCSW, LMHC, and LMFT licensees owe a one-time 2-hour course after initial licensure, plus 2 more hours every third renewal.
Florida Qualified Supervisor Training
Learn about the 12-hour course that makes you a board-qualified supervisor for Florida registered interns, plus the 4-hour refresher due every third renewal.
Florida Laws & Rules CE
Learn how the 8-hour pre-licensure laws and rules course differs from the 3-hour CE that's due every third renewal.
LMFT CE Hours Calculator
Pick your state to prefill the real board numbers, then set your completed hours to see what a licensed marriage and family therapist still needs: hours left, ethics left, and a monthly pace.
LPC CE Hours Calculator
Pick your state to prefill the real board numbers, then set your completed hours to see what a licensed professional counselor still needs: hours left, ethics left, and a monthly pace.
LCSW CE Hours Calculator
Pick your state to prefill the real board numbers, then set your completed hours to see what a licensed clinical social worker still needs: hours left, ethics left, and a monthly pace.
LCSW CE Requirements by State
See what each state board asks licensed clinical social workers to complete before renewal, including total hours, ethics, and any state-specific categories, sourced from the board itself.
LPC CE Requirements by State
See what each state board asks licensed professional counselors to complete before renewal, including hour totals, ethics, and the categories unique to that board, sourced from the board itself.
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