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Continuing Education

Continuing Education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors

Clinically grounded courses taught by practicing Lighthouse clinicians, approved for NYS LMHC continuing education credit.

#MHC-0287

Lighthouse Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0287.

Course Catalog

6 Contact Hours

Documenting Medical Necessity: Clinical Documentation and Treatment Planning

Instructor: Lynda Simon-Taylor, LMHC-D

Write progress notes and measurable treatment plans that clearly establish medical necessity and stand up to payer and audit review.

3 Contact Hours

Making a Differential Clinical Diagnosis

Instructor: Faye Fichera, LMHC

Sharpen diagnostic reasoning: rule conditions in and out, weigh overlapping presentations, and apply DSM criteria with confidence.

3 Contact HoursNYS Required

Professional Boundaries and Dual Relationships

Instructor: Lynda Simon-Taylor, LMHC-D

Recognize boundary crossings and violations, manage dual relationships, and apply ethical decision-making in clinical practice.

6 Contact Hours

Developing an Effective, Ethical Clinical Supervisor

Instructor: Lynda Simon-Taylor, LMHC-D

Core supervision models, gatekeeping, feedback and the ethical responsibilities of clinical supervisors.

6 Contact Hours

Skills Beyond DBT

Instructor: Faye Fichera, LMHC-D

Extend DBT-informed skills to help clients regulate emotion, tolerate distress and build interpersonal effectiveness.

3 Contact Hours

Assessment Training

Instructor: Ashley Dixon, LMHC-D

Conduct thorough clinical assessments and turn intake findings into a clear case conceptualization.

3 Contact Hours

Culturally Responsive Care

Instructor: Sybil Cherisme, LMHC

Recognize how culture, identity and lived experience shape care, and adapt assessment and treatment to meet each client where they are.

3 Contact Hours

Working with Minors

Instructor: Sybil Cherisme, LMHC

Consent, confidentiality, parental involvement and developmentally informed practice when counseling children and adolescents.

Coming Soon

Attachment, Trauma and the Couple: An Attachment-Informed Approach to Couples Therapy

Instructor: Lynda Simon-Taylor, LMHC-D

How each partner's attachment style and trauma history shape conflict and connection, and how to work with both in the room.

How It Works

  1. RegisterChoose a course and complete your registration.
  2. LearnComplete all course content.
  3. Post-testScore 80% or higher. Retakes are unlimited.
  4. EvaluateComplete the course evaluation.
  5. CertificateYour certificate of completion is emailed to you.

Requirements for Credit

  • Complete all course content.
  • Pass the post-test with a score of 80% or higher.
  • Submit the course evaluation.
  • Certificates list your name, course title, contact hours, completion date and provider #MHC-0287.
  • NYSED allows no more than 12 of the 36 required hours in each three-year registration period to be self-study.

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