TMH605: TeleMental Health Credential Training
This comprehensive 9-hour course provides licensed mental health professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to deliver competent, ethical, and legally compliant telemental health services. Covering the full landscape of virtual practice from regulatory frameworks and HIPAA compliance to clinical adaptations and crisis intervention, this course addresses the six BC-TMH training content areas, state-by-state regulatory differences, platform selection, informed consent, evidence-based treatment modifications, special populations, ethical decision-making, interstate practice, and sustainable telehealth business models.
9
CE Hours
14
Modules
30
Quiz Questions
11
Est. Minutes
What you'll learn
- Describe the history, terminology, delivery modalities, and research evidence for telemental health, and explain why specialized training is part of competent virtual practice (Orientation to Telemental Health).
- Conduct and document a telehealth suitability assessment and obtain telehealth-specific informed consent that addresses technology risks, privacy limits, recording, emergency planning, and technology-failure procedures (Practitioner Protocols and Informed Consent).
- Select and configure a telehealth platform and workspace using HIPAA security criteria, and adapt clinical assessment and evidence-based treatment for video and audio delivery (Implementation of Telemental Health).
- Apply the client-location rule, state licensing board telehealth rules, the Counseling Compact, HIPAA requirements, and telehealth billing and documentation standards to multistate practice (Professional, Legal, and Compliance Standards).
- Use an ethical decision-making framework to resolve telehealth dilemmas involving confidentiality, competence, digital boundaries, social media, artificial intelligence tools, and culturally responsive care (Professional Ethics).
- Implement a remote crisis protocol, including pre-session location and emergency-contact verification, structured risk assessment, safety planning, technology-failure procedures, 988, and coordination with emergency services where the client is located (Crisis Management).
Who it's for
Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC/LPCC),Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHC),Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW),Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT),National Certified Counselors (NCC),Psychologists,Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
Approval & credit
CounselorReady is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP #7760). This course awards 9 NBCC-approved CE hours; a certificate is issued on completion. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CounselorReady is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.