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Bhava CE Classes are thoughtfully and intelligently designed to deliver current research, insights, practical tools and guidance for you to feel nourished and to better help you provide effective therapy.
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Our CE Courses are Nationally Accredited by the ASWB and NBCC and in New York State by the NYSED

Your time is precious, your learning and growth as a mental health practitioner is invaluable. We offer both live virtual as well as pre-recorded self-paced classes to meet your learning needs. Learn more about our offerings by state below: New York State Licensed Clinicians on the left and All Other US States and Canada on the right.

Meeting the Grieving

Pre-Recorded, Self-Study

This course designed for mental health professionals, social workers and psychotherapists, will address how to work with grief, loss and mourning from an experiential and integrative lens.

Expressive Arts & Experiential Practices

Pre-Recorded, Self-Study Version COMING SOON!

Expand your mind, build out your toolbox and invigorate your work with your clients. You don’t have to be a certified expressive arts therapist to harness the power of creativity with your clients.

Introduction to Couples Work

Pre-recorded, Self-Study Version Coming Soon

Feel more competent and capable to reach and support your couples to heal and be their best. Learn effective interventions to help your couples break unproductive and habitual patterns and find new ways of relating and finding joy with one another.

Resiliency Building and Post Traumatic Growth

Live, Online 3/8/24

Resilience building skills can be taught and honed just as any skill set and are essential to a life well lived. Personal shifts, changes and a new sense of purpose is possible. Join us for this class and learn how.

Clinical Supervision Skills

Live, Online 4/11/24

Great clinical supervisors don’t lecture, they inspire and nurture growth. Clinical supervision is a privilege to nurture the next generation of helpers. Take time to hone your skills in a safe and supportive learning environment.

Introduction to the Wisdom of the Enneagram

Live, Online 4/26/24

See others more clearly and distinctly. Recognize patterns in how others interpret the world around them and how they manage themselves. The Enneagram is a comprehensive personality typing system that reaches far beyond the bounds of personality.

Helping Your Clients Break Free From OCD

Live, Online 5/9/24
 
OCD doesn’t have to limit your clients life or disempower you as a therapist. In this class you will learn from an expert in the field how to help your clients break-free from their OCD.

Introduction to Somatic and Experiential Psychotherapy

Pre-Recorded, Self-Study

Effect deep, profound and lasting change in your clients through somatic and experiential approaches

Anxiety Insight & Management

Live, Online 5/31/24

How can we be of best service to those struggling with anxiety when it seems everywhere you turn there are valid reasons to be anxious? This 3 hour class will broaden your understanding of anxiety and teach you valuable ways to work with anxiety.

What Our Clients Are Saying

Veronica was terrific! Can’t say enough positive feedback. Very affirming to my own work after 36 years in the Field!

What Our Clients Are Saying

This was an excellent course and I loved everything about it! The integrative approach; that no one methodology dominates. The sharing of anecdotal cases at the right time and the clear design of the slides and information that was presented, and time for questions. Truly an excellent course!

What Our Clients Are Saying

I appreciate how relatable you are and how much of your instruction stems from your current work, as well as your humility and groundedness. You are an excellent teacher and all Bhava CE classes I’ve taken have been truly invaluable to my practice.

What Our Clients Are Saying

I can always count on great class flow, great information and great group discussion in a Bhava CE class! Keep it up!

What Our Clients Are Saying

A truly wonderful, informative and engaging class, I didn’t want to miss a minute!

What Our Clients Are Saying

I thought I was knowledgeable about OCD before the presentation but found that I didn’t know as much as I thought!

What Our Clients Are Saying

The instructor’s knowledge was immeasurable and his way of teaching was so engaging and relatable, it was such an enjoyable experience all around.

What Our Clients Are Saying

I’ve taken a number of CE classes with Bhava Therapy Group and I always leave feeling nourished and grateful for the experience.

What Our Clients Are Saying

You can tell the teacher teaches from not only their extensive experience but from their heart and soul.

What Our Clients Are Saying

Before taking CE classes with Bhava, I found CE classes dry and boring. Taking CE classes through Bhava Therapy Group has been a completely different, enjoyable and enriching experience, I’m so grateful for the good work you do!

FAQ

How do I gain access to and sign up for continuing education classes?
All of our CE courses – Live Virtual & Pre-Recorded Self-Paced classes – are hosted on an online class platform called “THINKIFIC” This is a secure, password protected hosting platform that allows for protection and easy access to all of the courses and your course completion certificates you earn through your learning with us. The URL for the Bhava Therapy Group CE program is: https://bhava-therapy.thinkific.com/

Will I need to have a Thinkific account to take classes?
Yes. When you sign up for your first class with us, whether it is a Live-Virtual class or a Pre-recorded class, you will be prompted to enter a valid email address. The email address you use at this first point of registration and class purchase will be saved as your “username”. You will then be prompted to create a password. Save this email address and password, this will be your access to our online CE program.

Will I be able to see my past courses and future courses?
Yes, every class that you have taken and completed as well as future, upcoming courses you have registered will be saved in your personal, secure, password protected online class account.

I did not receive a link to the video session for the online class. How do I access the online Zoom class?
The Zoom link for the CE class is stored as a module within the class framework on the online class platform, so you will not receive an email with a Zoom link. You must sign into the Thinkific class platform at https://bhava-therapy.thinkific.com/ with your username and password. You will be prompted to read through each module and click complete before moving on to the next module. Once you reach the Zoom link module, it will be accessible from within the online course platform.

What if I lost my username and password to enter the online class platform?
Your password is what you designated as such at the time that you registered for the continuing education course. If you cannot remember your Password, please select the FORGOT PASSWORD button in the lower right corner of the SIGN UP page and follow the prompts. If you cannot remember your Username, please email ce@bhavatherapygroup.com for further assistance.

I logged into the online course platform but can’t find the class(s) I’ve registered for?
If, once you go to the url https://bhava-therapy.thinkific.com/ and you do not see your name in the upper righthand corner of the page, please login again where it says SIGN IN in the upper righthand corner of the page and enter your username and password. Then select MY DASHBOARD from the menu which will bring you to the list of courses you have registered for.

I don’t know how to access either the posttest or the course evaluation?
Both the posttest and the course evaluation are included as individual modules in the course accessible through the link. You will return to the online course platform by visiting this url https://bhava-therapy.thinkific.com/ and using your personal email/username and password to sign in. Then you will select MY DASHBOARD to see a list of classes in your profile that you have either already completed, are in process or planned for the future. Select the course you need to complete the posttest and course evaluation for and then select RESUME COURSE. This will bring you back to the last course module you were active in. Press the COMPLETE AND CONTINUE button at the bottom to lead you to the next module to complete. You must COMPLETE AND CONTINUE on all previous modules prior to accessing the posttest and the course evaluation.

How do I obtain my certificate of completion after the course has ended?
After finishing both the Posttest and the Course Evaluation, you will receive a message congratulating you for completing the course and at the bottom of that message you can click the GET YOUR CERTIFICATE button and your CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION will be viewable, and you can choose to either COPY LINK or DOWNLOAD your Certificate of Completion. It will also be stored in your Personal Password Protected Bhava Therapy/Thinkific CE Course Account. You will also receive an email with a link to you certificate of completion.

What if I am licensed in two different states including NY and another state – Do I have to register twice?
If you are registered in NY as well as another state, please email our CE course administrator at ce@bhavatherapygroup.com so they can further assist you in obtaining dual certificates of completion, one for NY state and one for the other state you are licensed to practice in.

ACE

Bhava Therapy Group, #1782, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Bhava Therapy Group maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 12/09/2022 – 12/09/2025.

ACEP

Bhava Therapy Group has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7242. 8/4/22-8/1/25. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Bhava Therapy Group is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. For questions, concerns, or to request accommodations, please email CE@bhavatherapygroup.com or call 646-389-5801

ACEP

NYC Therapy Group LCSW’s Psychotherapy Professionals PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department as an Approved Provider of Continuing Education for Licensed Masters and Clinical Social Workers, SW-0307; Licensed Mental Health Counselors, MHC-0051; Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists, MFT-0029; Licensed Creative Arts Therapists, CAT-0019; Licensed Psychoanalysts, P-0023; and Licensed Psychologists, PSY-0001.

System Requirements:
Windows XP or higher, MacOS9 or higher, Android 4.0 or higher Internet Browser: Internet Explorer 9.0 or higher, Google Chrome, Firefox 10.0 or higherBroadband Internet Connection: Cable, High-speed DSL & any other medium that is internet accessible.

Course Completion Requirements:
To earn CE credit, social workers and mental health clinicians must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course and complete both the online posttest and course evaluation. Upon completion of the live course, you will be immediately prompted to complete the posttest and then the course evaluation. Once you receive a passing score of 80% or above (you will have an unlimited number of attempts to take the posttest), you will be prompted to complete the course evaluation. Participants will have a 24-hour time window from the end of the live course, within which both the posttest and the course evaluation must be completed in order to receive credit. A certificate of completion will appear within your bhava-therapy.thinkific.com account and you will receive an email congratulations message and link to your Certificate of Completion as well.

Refund Policy
Refunds for live in-person courses are offered up to 1 week in advance of the course start date. Refunds for live online courses are offered up to 24 hours prior to the start of the course. Refunds are issued in the original form of payment used. Any cancellations or requests for refunds after the 1 week or 24 hour window respectively are reviewed on a case by case basis. Requests for refunds or cancellation after the 1 week or 24 hour window, if granted, may qualify only as a credit for future courses not as a refund of the original payment used.

If you are unable to attend the class you registered for, please email Veronica Vaiti to request your credit.

Grievance Policy
The Bhava Therapy Group Continuing Education Program (BTGCEP) aims to provide an educational experience that meets and exceeds the highest standards for professional continuing education. The BTGCEP strives to address and meet each participants’ learning needs in an easy to use, transparent, supportive and openly communicative manner with substantive and quality content and instruction.

If at any time, a participant experiences a difficulty or grievance of any kind such as access to CE course, delivery of courses, attendance to courses, quality of or level of instruction of the courses, receipt of certificates of completion and the like, the BTGCEP team commits to respond promptly and in a timely manner with as much clarity, respect for the request or expressed grievance and work to resolve the grievance in a satisfactory and integrous manner.

In-Service/On-Site Training & Workshops

The Bhava Therapy Group CE Program is also available to provide our continuing education courses and training on-site at your organization. If you or the members of your organization are unable to make it to one of our training or if your organization has a specific request for a training in a particular area of expertise that you don’t see listed as part of our posted curriculum, please email Veronica Vaiti to discuss further.

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