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

Description

This course does not offer CE Credits. The same course is available for purchase and offers 1 CE hour for behavioral health clinicians.  See "related products" below.

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 program and consists of an hour of video instruction and 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 clinicians who provide behavioral health services. This continuing education course is designed for licensed behavioral health professionals and provides training in suicide prevention using expressive arts as an integrative approach. However, this is not a creative arts therapy course and does not provide training in creative arts therapy.

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.

Instructors and Disclosures

Instructors

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

Dr. Nivischi N. Edwards holds a Doctoral degree in Counselor Education from the University of Central Florida, Master’s degree in Community Counseling from Andrews University, and Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Syracuse University. Dr. Nivischi is a Licensed Counselor in two states and operates a virtual private practice as a Board Certified TeleMental Health Counselor. She also trains master’s and doctoral level counseling students online with Liberty University.

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(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

This course does not offer CE credits, just great content.

The same course is available for purchase and offers 1 ethics CE hour for behavioral health clinicians.  See "related products" below.

This course is a non-interactive, online self-study.

Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of completion to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.

Accommodations and Policies

Close Captioning is available for live webinars and recorded video presentations.

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• Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities.
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• Grievance Policy
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