Facilitating Wellness & Resiliency Approaches for Military Life: Telehealth Services

Description

The demands of military life don’t end on the battlefield—they reverberate through families, homes, and the minds and bodies of those who serve. Behavioral health clinicians need specialized insight and tools to truly meet the complex needs of service members, veterans, and their families navigating the invisible wounds of military culture, trauma, and reintegration.

In this transformative course, you’ll gain clinical strategies grounded in cultural competence, telehealth innovation, and evidence-based wellness practices that allow you to offer the kind of care military-connected individuals truly need—and deserve.

Dr. Mark A. Stebnicki, a nationally recognized expert in military counseling, draws on more than 35 years of clinical, academic, and personal experience working with veterans, service members, and their families. As the creator of the Clinical Military Counseling Certificate (CMCC), Dr. Stebnicki brings a deep well of knowledge on military trauma, chronic illness, and reintegration stress—giving you access to the insights that matter most for this population.

Through practical frameworks and engaging material, Dr. Stebnicki helps clinicians understand the unique culture, stressors, and psychological profiles of military clients. He highlights how to leverage telemental health tools to deliver client-centered, trauma-informed, and resiliency-focused care.

This course explores military culture and the mental health impact of combat and non-combat roles, occupational stress, deployment cycles, chronic pain, moral injury, and complex PTSD. You’ll examine the reintegration process, stigma around help-seeking, and emerging telehealth models for military mental health care. The course provides clinicians with specific strategies to support clients through trauma, family strain, and transitions using accessible virtual tools and community-based military resources.

Key Takeaways:

• Use of Military Telemental Health Services: Gain familiarity with the many telehealth options and platforms uniquely tailored to military-connected populations.

• Culturally Competent Military Counseling: Learn how to deliver care aligned with military ethos, identity, and the real-world challenges of reintegration and family systems.

• Resiliency and Wellness Tools: Apply practical, strengths-based tools that foster recovery, personal growth, and whole-person wellness.

Why this course?

• Built for Today’s Clinician: This course addresses the very real challenge of supporting military populations via telehealth—a growing reality for many clinicians.

• Trusted Instructor and Content: Dr. Stebnicki is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on military mental health and counseling—his guidance is both evidence-based and field-tested.

• Mission-Driven Organization: Offered by Telehealth Certification Institute, this course reflects our values of excellence, collaboration, and equipping you to deliver the highest standard of care.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore Telemental Health programs, services, and resources offered through military health providers and private organizations that can assist active-duty members, veterans, and military families achieve optimal medical, physical, and mental health functioning throughout military life.

• Apply the principles of military resiliency, wellness, and coping resources using Telemental Health services as the primary care provider.

• Identify the psychosocial stressors in the military transition and reintegration process using Telemental Health services to assist in adjustment to civilian life.

By equipping yourself with the insights and tools provided in this course, you not only expand your clinical competencies—you also become a trusted ally in the lives of those who’ve served. It’s a meaningful opportunity to elevate your practice and support healing where it’s most needed.

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Format and Access

This is a non-interactive self-study course. Instruction consists of 1.5 hours 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

Instructor

About Mark A. Stebnicki, Ph.D.

Mark A. Stebnicki is professor emeritus and former coordinator of the Military and Trauma Counseling (MTC) Certificate Program (which he developed in 2015) in the Department of Addictions and Rehabilitation at East Carolina University. He also developed the national Clinical Military Counseling Certificate (CMCC) in 2016, a 12-hour CE program offered nationally through the Telehealth Certificate Institute. Dr. Stebnicki has been a counselor, educator, researcher, and practitioner with over 35 years of experience in the fields of rehabilitation and mental health counseling.

He has practiced and published in areas related to stress, traumatic stress, disaster mental health response, and the psychosocial aspects of chronic illness and disability. He has extensive experience working with active-duty military service members, veterans, veterans with disabilities, and military families. Dr. Stebnicki has published 11 professional books, over 40 journal articles, and book chapters and has provided over 120 national and regional presentations. He has served on many statewide and national professional counseling boards.

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor(s) 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 1.5 continuing education hours 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: 

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 your licensing board would accept this course.

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 1.5 clinical 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:

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 90 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 course.

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