Continuing Education
Loyola University Chicago is a licensed CEU provider through the Illinois Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. Our CEU programs, both online and in person, help you stay up to date on the current best practices and cutting-edge theories in behavioral health. Leading experts in the field develop each course, and courses are vetted for compliance.
Continuing education hours are required and necessary for a social worker’s career. Not only to keep your license up-to-date, but so you can provide your clients with updated and accurate care. Now you can get the continuing education you need to be well-informed on new treatment developments and strategies, plus build your career through a convenient and affordable way that’s adaptable to your personal and professional needs.
Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy
The School of Social Work offers post-graduation certification in advanced psychodynamic psychotherapy in partnership with the Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy. This program is a year-long commitment, designed for full-time, working professionals that provides licensed clinicians the training needed to expand and update clinical skills, enrich care provided to clients, and enhance one’s overall practice. The framework incorporates multiple theoretical disciplines and offers a method of case conceptualization that includes various listening and intervention techniques from a variety of treatment approaches.
Comprising three learning formats (on-site residency, virtual small-group consultation, and webinars) the program enables participants to continue their daily professional practices while earning this Advanced Psychotherapy Certificate. Time commitment is approximately 2.5 hours per week for the year. The certificate program offers 72 hours of Continuing Education credits for psychologists and 72 hours through IDFPR. New cohorts begin in late October/early November of each year.
More information on IAP can be found on their website.
Women in Therapy Workshop
Presented by Shweta Singh, Ph.D., Jackie Anderson-Carter, Ph.D., and Sinda Rosenberg, LCSW
Women clients in therapy bring a complex context including culture, class, religion, gender, motherhood and marital statuses. This workshop will explore working with women clients across several of these contexts as issues of women’s wellbeing are hidden within them.
This workshop will discuss issues of women at work, issues of women in marriage and motherhood, and issues of women across class and race.
Friday, March 6
1:30-4:00 p.m.
Offered via Zoom
Supervisor Training Education Program - FREE
STEP is a collaboration between Loyola’s School of Social Work and Adelphi University’s Social Work Practice Fellows program designed to build skills and competencies for mental health practitioners in Lake County. This 36-hour intensive training course is funded by the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County, making it FREE for participants.
- Individual and Group Supervision Advancement
- Self-care and Resilience Implementation
- Trauma-Informed Supervision for Social Justice
- Address Performance & Organizational Challenges
- Reaching assessment and planning skills in work with individuals and families
- Furthering supervisors’ capacity to address performance and organizational challenges
Starting March 13, participants will meet twice a month (once in person, once via Zoom) from 9:30 a.m - 12:30 p.m. In-person meetings will be held at University Center of Lake County - 1200 University Center Drive, Grayslake, IL, 60030. A full schedule and curriculum is listed below.
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Date |
Topics |
Faculty |
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March 13 9:30-12:30 |
Advancing skills in individual and group supervision
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Jackie Anderson-Carter |
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March 27 9:30-12:30 Zoom |
Advancing skills in individual and group supervision
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Jackie Anderson-Carter |
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April 10 9:30-12:30
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Teaching assessment and planning skills in work with individuals and families
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Lu Rocha |
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April 24 9:30-12:30 Zoom |
Teaching assessment and planning skills in work with individuals and families
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Lu Rocha |
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May 8 9:30-12:30
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Trauma-informed supervision through a social justice lens
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Katie Foster |
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May 22 9:30-12:30 Zoom |
Trauma-informed supervision through a social justice lens
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Katie Foster |
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June 12 9:30-12:30
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Supervision to advance knowledge of health challenges impacting individuals and families across the life course. (3 hours)
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Katie Foster |
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June 26 9:30-12:30 Zoom |
Teaching and Implementing Self-care and Professional Resilience (3 hours only)
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Katie Foster |
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July 17 9:30-12:30
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Supervision to advance knowledge of mental health and substance use challenges impacting individuals and families across the life course
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Lu Rocha |
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July 31 9:30-12:30 Zoom |
Supervision to advance knowledge of mental health and substance use challenges impacting individuals and families across the life course
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Lu Rocha |
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August 7 Zoom
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Furthering supervisors’ capacity to address performance and organizational challenges and Graduation
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Jackie Anderson-Carter |
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August 21 |
Furthering supervisors’ capacity to address performance and organizational challenges.
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Jackie Anderson-Carter |
Spirituality and Religion: Cultivating Sources of Strength and Hope in the Latine Community
Spirituality and Religion: Developing A Source of Strength and Hope in the Latine Community
Monday March 30, 1-2pm
Held via Zoom
Presented by Dra. Maribel López, Ed.D., MSW and Dra. Diana Franco, DSW, LCSW
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Identify spirituality and religion as sources of resilience, hope, and meaning making after trauma for Latine clients.
- Use a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach when discussing spirituality and religion with Latine clients who have experienced trauma, respecting their unique relationship with faith and how it intersects with culture.
Registration
Register by emailing Manager of Extension Education Caroline Gosselin (cgosselin@luc.edu) with the subject line "Spirituality and Religion".
Group Relations Conference
Effective leadership and the meaningful exercise of authority require more than intellectual and technical understanding. The Group Relations model in the Tavistock tradition provides a well-defined context within which to examine group-level forces and dynamics as they occur in the here-and-now. As people work in groups, families and other social systems, their participation takes on many different meanings — influencing thoughts, feelings and actions. The confluence of individual meanings powerfully affects the identities, roles and authority we take on in groups, schools, organizations, institutions, communities and society.
Members of a group relations conference have the opportunity to directly experience:
- How people join and engage in group work, delegate and resist authority, and develop roles and reputations.
- How people contribute to and obstruct getting the group’s task accomplished.
- How members of a group exercise authority, power and influence in meaningful and appropriate ways — both as leaders and as followers.
- Group collusion in the creation and enabling of maladaptive roles.
- Group cooperation in the creation and enabling of adaptive roles.
In applying the learning from group relations conferences, having two or more people from the same organization attend the conference together is often useful.
Navigating Insurance Issues As a Depth Therapist
June 5th, 2026 || 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Zoom Webinar
$95 with CEUs, $25 without CEUs
During this informative and timely webinar, experts in the field will provide participants with the skills needed to navigate working with insurance companies while still providing impactful depth therapy. Clinicians will leave this webinar with an understanding of the role insurance companies play within therapy, including how to work with them, how to push back when necessary, and how to document insight-oriented therapy in a way that meets insurance standards, and how to assess tradeoffs of joining practice management platforms that offer credentialing and billing support. Templates and step-by-step instructions will be provided.
This event is presented in partnership between the Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy Action Network
Eligible participants will receive 2 CEUs through IDFPR or APA*
Questions can be directed to Katelyn Tippett at ktippett@luc-iap.com
Michael Stokely Kelly Summer Institute 2026
- Explore how technology is impacting childhood development
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Discuss current trends in school
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Assess and intervene gaming related mental health concerns
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Examine ethical and equity issues in the use of technology in learning
12 CEUs will be available for social work re-licensure.
More details and registration to come.
Loyola University Chicago is a licensed CEU provider through the Illinois Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. Our CEU programs, both online and in person, help you stay up to date on the current best practices and cutting-edge theories in behavioral health. Leading experts in the field develop each course, and courses are vetted for compliance.
Continuing education hours are required and necessary for a social worker’s career. Not only to keep your license up-to-date, but so you can provide your clients with updated and accurate care. Now you can get the continuing education you need to be well-informed on new treatment developments and strategies, plus build your career through a convenient and affordable way that’s adaptable to your personal and professional needs.