Your Path to Professional Certification
Looking for a certification that actually moves the needle with clients and employers?
PESI offers more than 50 recognized certifications across trauma, grief, DBT, EMDR, ADHD, CBT, and other specialties in behavioral health, healthcare, and rehabilitation, developed in collaboration with partners like Evergreen Certifications. Each one is built to be affordable, CE-eligible, and immediately useful in your practice.
With PESI certifications, you can take the next step in your career while gaining the skills and credibility that today's clients and employers demand.
DBT Certification
Becoming Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy equips you with proven tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, so you can guide clients through crisis moments instead of just managing them.
ADHD Certification
Becoming certified in ADHD Treatment sharpens your command of behavioral, medication, and relationship-based interventions, so clients can thrive at any age or stage of life.
Somatic Therapy Certification
Becoming Certified in Somatic Therapy trains you to work with trauma stored in the body, so clients get relief that talk therapy alone sometimes can't reach.
Grief Counseling Certification
Becoming Certified in Grief Counseling deepens your ability to support clients through loss in its many forms, so you can meet grief with more than general counseling skills allow.
CBT Certification
Becoming Certified in CBT strengthens your ability to help clients reframe unhelpful thought patterns across anxiety, trauma, and OCD, so one certification serves a wide range of your caseload.
Trauma Certification (CCTP)
Becoming a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional builds your expertise in treating acute and complex trauma, so clients get care shaped by specialized training, not general practice alone.
EMDR Certification
Becoming certified in EMDR gives you a structured, research-backed method for helping clients process traumatic memories, so healing doesn't stay stuck in talk alone.
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Why Earn Certification?
Deepen Your Clinical Skillset
Certification pushes your training past the basics, giving you protocols and frameworks you can bring into session right away, not just a broader base of knowledge.
Stand Out to Employers
When promotions or new roles come up, a recognized certification shows you've gone further than your continuing education requirements ask of you.
Build Client Trust
Clients want to know if the person treating them has real depth in that specialty. Certification gives them that reassurance before the first session even starts.
Join a Global Network of Certified Professionals
PESI certifications are held by clinicians across the world, connecting you to a community trained in the same evidence-based approaches you are.
Show Off What You've Earned
Every certification comes with a digital badge you can add to your email signature, website, or LinkedIn, a visible marker of the specialized work you've put in.
Trust Standards Built by Experts
Every PESI certification is developed and reviewed by an advisory board of leading clinicians in that specialty, so the bar for earning it actually means something.
Flexible Learning
Whether you want the accountability of a live cohort, the flexibility of a self-paced course, or the immersion of a destination retreat, PESI certifications come in the format that fits how you actually learn.
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