Best Practices for TeleMental Health Being Used in Graduate Behavioral Health Students' Field Experiences

Description

Supporting graduate students through the shift to TeleMental Health isn’t just a challenge—it’s a professional responsibility. As field placements adapt to remote models, supervisors, faculty, and clinicians must be prepared to ethically guide novice counselors in delivering competent, client-centered care online.

This one-hour course offers practical guidance and evidence-informed strategies to help you navigate this evolving landscape with confidence. Discover what works—so your students can thrive, your clients can be protected, and your supervision process can remain strong, no matter the format.

Taught by two highly experienced instructors, Dr. Nivischi Edwards and Dr. April Crable, this course blends academic insight, clinical expertise, and real-world examples from the early days of the COVID-19 transition. Both educators have trained graduate students online for years and operate virtual counseling practices across multiple states. Their frontline experience equips them to speak directly to the ethical, emotional, and logistical challenges of telehealth field placements.

Dr. Edwards and Dr. Crable present the material through a structured yet conversational format grounded in real student and faculty experiences. Drawing from their work as educators and clinicians, they incorporate reflective questions, case examples, and supervision scenarios to help learners apply ethical and trauma-informed strategies in their own settings. Their approach emphasizes practical insight, flexibility, and compassion—equipping supervisors to adapt confidently to the evolving demands of remote clinical education.

This course addresses the unique supervision challenges of TeleMental Health in graduate field experiences through a practical, real-world lens. Topics include maintaining professionalism in virtual settings, supporting students through trauma and moral injury, and navigating the emotional toll on faculty and site supervisors. You'll also explore legal and ethical issues specific to telehealth, supervision protocols for novice counselors, and tools to foster student resilience and competence in online environments. Grounded in real case examples, this training offers relevant insights for clinical supervisors, educators, and behavioral health leaders guiding students through remote care delivery.

Key Takeaways:

• Healthy transition strategies: Learn practical, trauma-informed self-care methods to support students adjusting from in-person to remote counseling.
• Supervision readiness tools: Gain protocols and reflection questions to assess a student's competency and comfort with delivering care online.
• Ethical and legal guidance: Understand the implications of supervising TeleMental Health and how to navigate compliance across different states.

Why This Course?

• Practical + Relevant: Focuses specifically on the telehealth challenges of graduate-level behavioral health students—an often-overlooked population in CE training.
• Led by trusted experts: Learn from two respected clinician-educators with firsthand experience guiding students through telehealth transitions.
• Offered by a leader in telehealth education: Telehealth Certification Institute is committed to providing practical, ethical, and forward-thinking CE designed for the realities of today’s behavioral health professionals.

Learning Objectives:

• Illustrate healthy self-care strategies as one transitions from face-to-face to TeleMental Health. 
• Assess protocols to supervise novice counselors when using TeleMental Health, and examine the legal implications of TeleMental Health with students.
• Examine the ethical impact TeleMental Health has on client care, and discern the emotional impact pandemics have on site supervisors, faculty, and students.

With this course, you'll be better prepared to support the next generation of clinicians in delivering safe, ethical, and confident TeleMental Health care. Whether you're a site supervisor, faculty member, or licensed clinician, this training offers you the tools you need to navigate a rapidly changing educational environment with clarity and care.

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Format and Access

This is a non-interactive self-study course. Instruction consists of 1 hour of video instruction and a post-test.

Course Details

Availability: 

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

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

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

Instructors

About Dr. Nivischi N. Edwards, Pd.D, LPC, LMHC, NCC, BC-TMH

About Dr. April R. Crable, Ph.D., MBA, LPC, NCC, SOTP, CSAC

Dr. April R. Crable is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the states of Arizona, Florida, Texas, New York and Virginia. Additionally, she is both a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor and Sex Offender Treatment Provider in the state of Virginia. A graduate of Old Dominion University and Regent University respectively. April has worked in the mental health field for over a decade as a private practice owner, executive director, clinical director, clinical supervisor, clinical consultant, therapist, college administrator, professor, and national presenter.

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:

This course consists of 1 ethics continuing education hour of credit.

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: 

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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:

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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:

This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

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 60 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.

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