Workshops

Advance Your Clinical Skills with CE-Certified Workshops

Ackerman Institute workshops offer live, expert-led training in couple and family therapy for mental health professionals.

Whether online or in-person at our NYC location, each event is designed to deepen your practice with evidence-based strategies and diverse clinical perspectives.

Earn Continuing Education (CE) contact hours for LCSW, LMSW, LMFT, and licensed psychologists in New York State.

View our Workshop FAQ below. 

  • Playful Practices to Use in Family Therapy with Children
     December 3, 2025
     12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Catherine Lewis, LCSW, MS

1.5 CE Credit Hours

Online

Online events are held in Eastern Standard Time (ET). A link will be emailed 1 day before the event.


Politics Invading the Sibling Relationship

  • I'm Not Coming to my Sister’s Wedding: Politics Invading the Sibling Relationship
     December 5, 2025
     10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Karen Gail Lewis, MSW, EdD

3 CE Credit Hours

Online

Online events are held in Eastern Standard Time (ET). A link will be emailed 1 day before the event.


Risks, Resilience & Relationships

  • Raising Neurodivergent Children
     December 10, 2025
     12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Judy Grossman, DrPH, OTR

1.5 CE Contact Hours

Online

Online events are held in Eastern Standard Time (ET). A link will be emailed 1 day before the event.


Four Dimensions of Hope for Couple Interventions After Exposure to Trauma

  • Back to Connection: Four Dimensions of Hope for Couple Interventions After Exposure to Trauma
     January 23, 2026
     10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Ron Nasim, PhD

3 CE Contact Hours

Online

Online events are held in Eastern Standard Time (ET). A link will be emailed 1 day before the event.


Strategies for Supporting Young Adults and Their Parents

  • Healing Estranged Relationships
     February 11, 2026
     12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Peter Abrons, PhD

1 CE Credit Hour

Online

Online events are held in Eastern Standard Time (ET). A link will be emailed 1 day before the event.


A Self of Therapist Workshop on Working with Interracial, Intercultural, and Interfaith Couples and Families

  • Who Are You Bringing in the Room
     February 13, 2026
     1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Gita Seshadri, PhD, LMFT and Dumayi Gutierrez, PhD, LMFT, LMHP

3 CE Credit Hours

Online

Online events are held in Eastern Standard Time (ET). A link will be emailed 1 day before the event.


Race, Gender, Culture & Clinical

  • Body Image Through an Afro-Latinx Caribbean Lens
     February 25, 2026
     12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Narolyn Méndez, PhD

1.5 CE Credit Hours

Online

Online events are held in Eastern Standard Time (ET). A link will be emailed 1 day before the event.


  • Understanding Complex Trauma and Paths to Recovery
     February 27, 2026
     1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Judith Lewis Herman, MD

2 CE Credit Hours

Online

Online events are held in Eastern Standard Time (ET). A link will be emailed 1 day before the event.


Transnationality and Virtual Technologies as New Normalities

  • Globalized Families: Transnationality and Virtual Technologies as New Normalities
     January 9, 2026
     10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Maria Borcsa, PhD

5 CE Contact Hours

In-Person at Ackerman Institute for the Family

936 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York City [Google Map]


  • A Relational Frame for Substance Use Disorders
     January 30, 2026
     10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Molly Bobek, Salah Bustami, Genoveva Garcia, Frank Wells

5 CE Credit Hours

In-Person at Ackerman Institute for the Family

936 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York City [Google Map]


We’ve made our most popular workshops available on-demand so you can learn from Ackerman’s expert faculty whenever and wherever it fits your life.

These workshops are designed for non-clinical audiences and do not offer continuing education credits.

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Continuing Education / CEUs:

  • The Ackerman Institute for the Family 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-0049.
  • The Ackerman Institute for the Family SW CPE 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 #0052.
  • The Ackerman Institute for the Family 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-0174.

FAQs: Attending an Ackerman Workshop

A link to attend the workshop via Zoom will be emailed to you one day in advance of the training. Please check your spam and filtered folders for this message before contacting us.

If you have not received a link by the day of the training, please contact: workshops@ackerman.org.

For technical support for an online workshop, please refer to the Zoom customer support center.

Ackerman staff are not able to respond to your technical inquiry.

Ackerman workshops are not recorded. Due to federal HIPAA regulations, unauthorized recording of clinical material is not permitted.

Ackerman Institute trainings are intended for qualified mental health professionals only, unless otherwise noted. Eligible attendees must be trained in mental health, and currently employed in the field of social work, marriage and family therapy, counseling, psychology, or another mental health profession. If you have questions about your eligibility to attend an Ackerman training, please contact: workshops@ackerman.org.

Please review our Refund Policy for details on cancellations and credits.

Mental health practitioners who hold LCSW, LMSW, or LMFT or psychologist licensure in New York State are eligible to earn Continuing Education Contact Hours (CEUs). Please check with your license provider to confirm eligibility.

You must attend the full duration of a training to be eligible for CE contact hours. Registrants will complete an evaluation form at the conclusion of the training to verify attendance. Certificates are delivered by email within 14 business days.

Participants must attend the full duration of a workshop to be eligible for full CE Contact Hours. As proof of attendance, trainees must complete an evaluation form at the conclusion of the training. Per the NY State of Education, we do not provide credit for partial attendance.

Eligible participants will receive CE Contact Hours via email within 14 business days. Certificates of completion are distributed by email only. To ensure prompt delivery, please add workshops@ackerman.org to your email contact list.

Your payment receipt is the confirmation email you receive at the time of registration. Please check your email inbox, filtered messages, and spam folders for this message. To ensure prompt delivery, add workshops@ackerman.org to your email contacts list.

Ackerman does not offer student or professional discounts.

There is a fee associated with trainee participation in workshops. Tuition discounts are only available to alumni of Ackerman’s clinical externship.