TeleMental Health Training Certificate (THTC)

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Description

This course is restricted to participants from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Do not enroll unless you have been directed by your instructors. 

Every client deserves competent, ethical, and effective care—whether in person or online. As telehealth becomes the standard of modern behavioral health practice, clinicians can no longer afford to “figure it out as they go.”

The TeleMental Health Training Certificate (THTC) Online Self-Study equips you with the confidence, clarity, and skills to deliver safe, effective care through telehealth. With 15.5 CE hours of comprehensive instruction, this certificate course is your pathway to ensuring your clients—and your practice—thrive in the digital era.

Raymond Barrett, LMHC, LPC, is your instructor. As the founder and CEO of the Telehealth Certification Institute, Ray has trained more than 40,000 clinicians worldwide and helped establish national telehealth standards with organizations such as the ATA, CCE, and CARF. His expertise combines legal, ethical, and clinical mastery with years of hands-on telehealth practice, making him one of the foremost authorities in the field.

Ray’s teaching approach blends real-world application with best-practice standards. He distills complex regulations into clear, actionable guidance and demonstrates clinical techniques through practical examples. His goal is not just to teach the rules of telemental health but to help you integrate them seamlessly into your daily practice.

In this training, you’ll explore the full scope of telemental health practice—from its history and benefits to its legal, ethical, and cultural dimensions. You’ll learn to navigate licensing laws, privacy regulations, and HIPAA requirements; select compliant technology; conduct phone and video sessions with confidence; establish emergency protocols; screen clients for telehealth readiness; and provide culturally competent care and supervision.

Key Takeaways:

• Comprehensive foundation: Understand the research, benefits, risks, and regulations that define safe and effective telemental health practice.

• Practical skills: Learn how to run secure, professional phone and video sessions, establish emergency management plans, and address technological barriers with clients.

• Ethical and cultural competence: Build confidence in applying privacy law, boundaries of competence, and cultural humility to telehealth services.

Why this certificate program?

• Unmatched authority: Learn from the instructor who helped write national telehealth guidelines and shape the BC-TMH credential.

• All-in-one training: Instead of piecemeal CE courses, this bundle integrates legal, ethical, clinical, and cultural training into a single certificate program.

• Future-proof your practice: Gain the expertise to serve clients safely, confidently, and ethically—no matter what changes come to technology or regulation.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the history, research and settings of telemental health.

• Explain how to determine if or when you can legally practice telemental health by reviewing and discussing state licensing laws and federal regulations.

• Explain how to ensure you practice within your boundaries of competence when using digital or communication technology in your practice, by holding telemental health services to the same standard of care expected for same-location/ face-to-face services.

• Describe the clinical, legal and ethical considerations when selecting technology, including HIPAA considerations, so you can apply these considerations to technology decisions you employ in your practice.

• List and explain the possible benefits, drawbacks and risks of telemental health.

• Demonstrate how to establish with the client an emergency management plan for each session in both a supervised and unsupervised environment and the process of responding to an emergency during a telemental health session.

• Use three criteria to assess if a prospective and/or current client is a fit for telemental health services.

• Demonstrate how to provide an effective video or phone session from start to finish.

• Demonstrate how to prepare the client for a video or phone session and to address technological challenges.

• Define cultural competence and cultural humility as they relate to ethical professional practice.

• Adapt technology, assessment, and treatment services to fit specific cultural needs.

Telehealth is no longer an optional skill—it’s a professional standard. The clients who rely on you deserve care that is safe, ethical, and effective in every setting.

Enroll in the TeleMental Health Training Certificate (THTC) Online Self-Study today, and gain the clarity, competence, and confidence to deliver the highest quality care online.

Format and Access

This is a self-study program that consists of 15.5 hours of instruction, post-tests and course evaluations.

Course Details

Availability: 

From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for participants from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructor

About Raymond Barrett, CEO, LMHC

Raymond Barrett is the founder and CEO of the Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC (TCI). A licensed mental health counselor (LMHC), Ray is an innovator and leader in the field of telemental health. He’s an expert telehealth trainer, a respected speaker, and a trusted consultant.

Ray’s inspiration for TCI came from his clients that started asking him to conduct their therapy sessions over the phone. Ray had discovered a knowledge gap in mental health training. He wanted to fill that void with comprehensive and practical training in telemental health - so Ray created that training for himself and fellow clinicians. 

Since 2014, TCI has delivered comprehensive telehealth training and consultation to a global network of more than 40,000 healthcare organizations and professionals. TCI now offers over 180 specialized courses, a vast array of telehealth resources, and ongoing free continuing education opportunities for telehealth providers. Among the most sought-after courses offered by TCI is the Telemental Health Training Certificate (THTC Certificate) program. 

Ray played a significant role in developing the initial curriculum for the Board Certified Telemental Health credential (BC-TMH) for the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE). He reviewed every training module. He helped draft content, including questions for exams. He even wrote and developed the initial draft of one of the training modules: Telemental Health Settings and Coordination of Care.

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) - the most respected organization for telehealth - recently overhauled its guidelines. Ray was on the writing committee that developed Best Practices in Synchronous Videoconferencing-Based Telemental Health in March 2022.

In 2019, Ray participated in a task force for developing a clinical rating process for mobile apps designed to help treat depression.  The recommendations were presented to ATA.

The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is an independent, nonprofit organization that provides accreditation services worldwide at the request of health and human service providers. As part of the International Standards Advisory Committee (ISAC), Ray helped establish CARF’s standards for virtual services.

Ray also is a frequent speaker and consultant for professional organizations. He has presented for over 20 organizations since 2015.

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

Credit Hours: 

The THTC program consists of 15 hours 46 minutes of video training. This course provides 15.5 continuing education credit hours (4 of which are ethics)

Counselors:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC 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-0048.

Marriage and Family Therapists: 

Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations.  You can check with your board to determine if this course would be accepted by your licensing board.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC 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 marriage and family therapists #MFT-0135, effective May 8, 2025.

Social Workers:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 15.5 total credits including 8 clinical and 7.5 ethics continuing education credits.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0435.

Addiction Professionals:

Telehealth Certification Institute is an approved provider of continuing education by NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, provider #193104. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.

Psychologists:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0128.

Art Therapists:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC 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 creative arts therapists #CAT-0093.

Other Professionals: 

This course qualifies for 930 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

This is a non-interactive, self-study program.

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