This page contains all online, hybrid, and live course descriptions plus dates each is offered. Just click on a class name to register. Seven Cedars Live & Online Training offers all the required Colorado courses for both levels of certification and the Licensed Addiction Counselor credential.
All CAC students must be in the CERTS database beginning January 1, 2018. More information HERE.
Certified Addiction Counselor Courses
- Training requirements for Certified Addiction Technician HERE.
- Training requirements for Certified Addiction Specialist HERE.
- Training requirements for Licensed Addiction Counselor HERE.
If you would like a one page printable 2024 schedule, click HERE.
How our online courses work:
- Courses are NOT self-directed.
- Students get a syllabus with due dates for readings, forum posts, and written assignments.
- Learning materials must be read before engaging in the written material.
- Late submission can result in a big loss of points and can result in not passing the class.
- An hour a day should be set aside for coursework, this can be any time of the day or night.
- Student engagement is monitored by consulting activity logs.
- Courses can be worked from a computer or tablet but not cell phones. Cell contacts do not record in activity logs and any work done on a cell phone will have to be redone.
- Online lessons contain live links to materials on the internet and elsewhere. Courses must be worked online to access these materials, which are an important part of the learning.
- Instructors actively participate throughout the course.
- A new student orientation is provided virtually at noon on the first day of all online courses and need only be attended once. Students are strongly encouraged to attend to familiarize themselves with the training shell. This is the only time students are asked to meet face-to-face during online classes.
- Students must have a score of 70% or more on the course material to sit for the final exam, and a score of 70% or more on the final exam to pass the course.
Hybrid courses provide flexibility as they save one day away by providing one week of instruction online (instead of one day in person) followed by a live two-day section delivered via Zoom, and satisfactory completion of both sections is required to pass the course.
How our live courses work:
All live courses are taught via Zoom. Students will need the following:
- A computer with a videocam and working speakers. (Screens on tablets tend to be too small for this application.)
- High-speed, reliable internet.
- A quiet room where you can be alone for two days during class time. Please do not do this from your living room or anywhere the family hangs out. The space needs to be quiet and private. We suggest you sit at a desk or in an office chair rather than on a couch or a bed so you can stay present.
- Print all the handouts requested in the course and have them ready ahead of time.
- Headphones or earbuds will give you the best experience but are not required.
- Be signed into the meeting room no later than 8:15 a.m. on your first day of class. The meeting room will be open by 8 a.m. each day.
- A score of 70% on the final exam to pass the course.
We will provide you:
- A dedicated link for Zoom each day.
- Technical assistance (to the best of our ability) to get started the first day.
Live training days run 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
If you are interested in registering for a class listed below, click on the class name.
Courses can be taken in any order but prerequisite requirements must be met.
Tuition: $230 (non-refundable)
This three-day live course is one of the foundational core courses germane to the CAC credential. The purpose of this class is to provide a counseling framework for working with substance abuse clients, learning client-centered, counselor-directed, motivationally-enhanced counseling skills known to be effective with these clients. About 2 1/2 days will involve skills practice and filming.
Live via Zoom:
January 15 – 17, 2025
February 19 – 21, 2025
April 2 – 4, 2025
May 28 – 30, 2025
Tuition: $185
This two-week online class will provide the counselor with an understanding of the client clinical record. Participants will be exposed to screening and assessment, ASAM levels of care, write a treatment plan and progress note, plus learn about other important clinical and administrative documentation.
Online training dates:
December 9 – 20, 2024
March 31 – April 11, 2025
Tuition: $160
The professional counselor has an obligation to understand the client’s context and learn to communicate in a manner that the client is likely to be able to hear, understand and accept. The counselor must have the courage and insight to explore their own biases and misconceptions of others with cultural and ethnic differences. This two-week online class will provide a basic foundation for understanding how cultural competence, awareness and sensitivity can improve quality of care and increase positive outcomes.
Online training dates:
February 17 – 28, 2025
May 19 – 30, 2025
Ethical Practice in Addiction Treatment (formerly Professional Ethics I: Ethics & Jurisprudence)
(14 Hours offered online over two weeks)
Tuition: $160
This two-week online class will provide the knowledge of ethics and jurisprudence for the addiction counselor which is essential for safe practice. Seven hours will be focused on ethical issues specific to the practice of addiction counseling, and seven hours will focus on jurisprudence, which is the law and the practice of psychotherapy in Colorado. There will be an emphasis on developing ethical decision making skills, knowledge of confidentiality and the prohibited activities in the Mental Health Practice Act. The addiction counselor will become familiar with the NAADAC Code of Ethics and acquire the tools for ethical and legal practice.
Online training dates:
February 3 – 14, 2025
April 28 – May 9, 2025
Group Counseling Skills
HYBRID COURSE – 7 Hours offered online over one week and live for two days (14 hours) via Zoom.
Tuition: $230 (non-refundable)
Prerequisite: Addiction Counseling Skills
Often group counseling is more effective in treating substance abuse clients, due to the fact it reduces isolation, enables group members to have their experiences “normalized” by hearing others with stories similar to their own. This course will provide instruction and practice for group therapy including group facilitation for the culturally diverse, managing group process, managing difficult behaviors, and employing the group as the change agent.
One week of didactic material will be delivered online, followed by two days in-person. Successful completion of both the online and in-person sections is required to pass the course. Note: A minimum of six students is required for each location.
Hybrid training dates:
February 24 – 28, 2025
Live via Zoom March 6 – 7, 2025
May 12 – 16, 2025
Live via Zoom May 22 – 23, 2025
Motivational Interviewing
HYBRID COURSE – 7 Hours offered online over one week, and live for two days (14 hours) via Zoom
Tuition: $230
Prerequisite: Addiction Counseling Skills
Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered collaborative style of conversation designed to strengthen a person’s motivation for and commitment to change. MI is counselor-directed in that the counselor is skilled at managing ambivalence, eliciting change-talk and honoring the client’s autonomy about taking the next step toward a commonly agreed upon goal (Miller & Rollnick, 2010). The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) has identified MI as a best practice within the addiction treatment field.
In this hybrid course you will be introduced to the concepts and tenets of Motivational Interviewing during the one-week didactic portion of class, worth 7 hours. Then the following week you will meet for live instruction for two days (14 hours) of practice with our expert Motivational Interviewing instructor. Satisfactory completion of both modules is required to pass the course. Note: a minimum of six students is required for each live site.
Hybrid training dates:
January 20 – 24, 2025
Live via Zoom January 30 – 31 OR February 6 – 7, 2025. Please reach out to Denise with your live session preference at Denise@7cedarstraining.com
April 14 – 18, 2025
Live via Zoom April 24 – 25, 2025
Pharmacology I
(14 Hours offered online over two weeks)
Tuition: $160
Training in pharmacology is a cornerstone of addiction counseling and a major part of what differentiates the professional field of addiction counseling from other mental health disciplines. This two-week online class will provide a solid base of knowledge about the drugs of abuse including what is happening in human physiology and behaviors.
Online training dates:
January 6 – 17, 2025
April 28 – May 9, 2025
Tuition: $210
This three-week online class presents the history and theories of addiction, the competencies required of an addiction counselor and scope of practice, and the NIDA principles of effective treatment. There will be an exploration of current evidence-based practices, addiction counselor certification and licensure in Colorado, and levels of care offered for addiction treatment. Expect to spend about seven hours per week on coursework.
Online training dates:
December 2 – 20, 2024
March 3 -21, 2025
Tuition: $160
This two-week online course will describe and define what trauma informed care is and ways in which a traditional treatment setting can be modified to increase the sense of safety experienced by consumers within this setting. Participants will learn how to incorporate trauma-informed practices into treatment with diverse populations, such as military veterans, women, people with co-occurring disorders and other groups. Although trauma treatment approaches will be considered this class will not teach how to do trauma-specific treatment.
Online training dates:
January 13 – 24, 2025
April 21 – May 2, 2025
Courses can be taken in any order but prerequisite requirements must be met.
Advanced Case Conceptualization (formerly Clinical Assessment & Treatment Planning)
(14 Hours offered online over two weeks)
Tuition: $170
Prerequisite: Client Record Management
This two-week online course will consider the differences between screening and assessment and use of assessment instruments. The class will consider the components of the clinical assessment such as a bio-psychosocial interview, assessing risk for self-harm, identifying cultural needs and supports, problem domains, determining stage of readiness for change and strengths of the client. Determining diagnosis and resulting level of care for the client will be discussed using the ASAM PPC-2. Stages of treatment and systems of care will be covered along with facets of treatment planning.
Online training dates:
March 10 – 21, 2025
Tuition: $200 (non-refundable)
Prerequisite: Motivational Interviewing
This 14-hour two-day live Level III course will offer a brief review of the fundamental spirit, principles and skills of MI, then focus intensively on advanced MI clinical skills development. It is expected that participants will be able to demonstrate the foundational MI skills by conducting a client interview using the OARS, and responding to no‐change talk (resistance). The format will be interactive and experiential in nature, and participants will receive individualized feedback from student and trainer ratings.
All Locations Live via Zoom
December 5 – 6, 2024
June 19 – 20, 2025
Tuition: $170
Prerequisite: Pharmacology I
This Level II 14-hour two week online class will explore the neurobiological basis of addiction and how addictive drugs produce neurochemical changes in the brain’s reward pathway. Addictive drugs have habit-forming actions that can be localized to a variety of brain regions which activate the reward circuitry in the brain. Neuroscience and genetic research on addiction continues to make significant progress toward understanding the changes in the brain that underlie drug use and addictive behaviors.
Online training dates:
February 24 – March 7, 2025
Tuition: $200
Prerequisite for Specialist trainees: Ethical Practice in Addiction Treatment
Prerequisite for LAC trainees: None
This 14-hour two day live course takes a comprehensive overview of advanced ethical and risk management issues, with a special emphasis on professional conduct and professional boundaries, dual relationships, professional distance, and appropriate use of counselor self‐disclosure. We’ll also discuss standards of care as defined in statutes, licensing board regulations, case law, code of ethics of professional associations, and community norms. Guidelines for ethical risk management will be presented.
All Locations Live via Zoom
January 23 – 24, 2025
May 15 – 16, 2025
Tuition: $170
This 14-hour online course is designed to provide an overview of the specialized models of counseling for behavioral health environment as well as providing services to co-occurring mental health and addiction interventions.
Online training dates:
December 2 – 13, 2024
June 2 – 13, 2025
Clinical Supervision I
HYBRID COURSE – 21 hours offered online over one week, and live for two days (14 hours) via Zoom.
Tuition: $230 (non-refundable)
Prerequisites for Specialist trainees: Addiction Counseling Skills, Group Counseling Skills, Motivational Interviewing, & Advanced Motivational Interviewing.
Prerequisites for LAC trainees: None
Clinical supervision is the process by which the clinical practice provided by the counselor is evaluated. This hybrid course prepares the addiction counselor with basic supervision tools and models to use as a standard of practice. We cover counselor/supervisor developmental level, cultural and contextual factors, ethical and legal issues, performance monitoring, and supervisory competencies. Some videotaping will occur. You will be introduced to the concepts and tenets of Clinical Supervision during the one-week didactic portion of class, worth 7 hours. Then the following week you will meet for live instruction for two days (14 hours) of practice with our expert Clinical Supervision instructor. Satisfactory completion of both modules is required to pass the course. Note: a minimum of six students is required for each live section.
Hybrid training dates:
February 10 – 14, 2025
Live via Zoom February 20 – 21 or 27 – 28, 2025 (Please reach out to Denise with your live session preference at Denise@7Cedarstraining.com)
May 19 – 23, 2025
Live via Zoom May 29 – 30, 2025
Tuition: $200 (non-refundable)
Prerequisites for Specialist trainees: Clinical Supervision I & Advanced Motivational Interviewing.
Prerequisites for LAC trainees: Clinical Supervision I.
The key to supporting the use of Motivational Interviewing in counseling is supervisory feedback and coaching. This two-day live course features Motivational Interviewing Assessment: Supervisory Tools for Enhancing Proficiency (MIA: STEP), which trains supervisees to use Motivational Interviewing in client assessments for joining and engaging the client, receiving better and more accurate information during the assessment, and improving client commitment to treatment following the assessment.
All Locations Live via Zoom:
December 19 – 20, 2024
March 27 – 28, 2025
Tuition: $170
This two-week online class will address clinical assessment, treatment philosophy, strategies, and guidelines to provide integrated treatment with co-occurring disorders. It will include an introduction to the diagnostic criteria for the mental disorders most often seen with substance use disorders. The essential values, attitudes, and competencies of the counselor working with this population are discussed. Evidence based practices and models of integrated treatment are presented.
Online training dates:
February 3 – 14, 2025
Tuition: $170
In this two-week online course, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) will be explored as a treatment approach that has gained widespread application in the treatment of addictions and mental health disorders. CBT is structured, goal-oriented, and focused on the immediate problems faced by substance abusers entering treatment who are struggling to control their substance use. Participants in this course will learn and practice effective ways to integrate tools specific to CBT in a comprehensive treatment strategy.
Online training dates:
April 7 – 18, 2025
Tuition: $170
In this three-week online training, the focus will be on the complex relationship between the client’s drugs of choice, lifestyle choices, and physiological health. Discussions will include immune system health, liver function, harm reduction and specific diseases such as HIV and hepatitis. Strategies will be presented for screening to determine level of risk, referral, and education about disease prevention and treatment. Expect to spend about five hours per week on coursework.
Online training dates:
March 24 – April 4, 2025
Tuition: $170
Prerequisite: Culturally Informed Treatment
Addiction counselors work to improve people’s lives by identifying and treating the effects of substance abuse disorders. Addiction counselors may work with people from the general public or they may specialize in specific populations, such as gender specific, persons involved in the criminal justice system, families, LGBTQIA, veterans and the opioid overuse epidemic. This course will provide a more in depth overview of the diverse populations in the addiction treatment realm.
Online training dates:
April 14 – 25, 2025
Courses can be taken in any order but prerequisite requirements must be met.
Tuition: $170
Prerequisite: Pharmacology I
This Level II 14-hour two week online class will explore the neurobiological basis of addiction and how addictive drugs produce neurochemical changes in the brain’s reward pathway. Addictive drugs have habit-forming actions that can be localized to a variety of brain regions which activate the reward circuitry in the brain. Neuroscience and genetic research on addiction continues to make significant progress toward understanding the changes in the brain that underlie drug use and addictive behaviors.
Online training dates:
February 24 – March 7, 2025
Tuition: $200
Prerequisite for Specialist trainees: Ethical Practice in Addiction Treatment
Prerequisite for LAC trainees: None
This 14-hour two day live course takes a comprehensive overview of advanced ethical and risk management issues, with a special emphasis on professional conduct and professional boundaries, dual relationships, professional distance, and appropriate use of counselor self‐disclosure. We’ll also discuss standards of care as defined in statutes, licensing board regulations, case law, code of ethics of professional associations, and community norms. Guidelines for ethical risk management will be presented.
All Locations Live via Zoom
January 23 – 24, 2025
May 15 – 16, 2025
Clinical Supervision I
HYBRID COURSE – 21 hours offered online over one week, and live for two days (14 hours) via Zoom.
Tuition: $230 (non-refundable)
Prerequisites for Specialist trainees: Addiction Counseling Skills, Group Counseling Skills, Motivational Interviewing, & Advanced Motivational Interviewing.
Prerequisites for LAC trainees: None
Clinical supervision is the process by which the clinical practice provided by the counselor is evaluated. This hybrid course prepares the addiction counselor with basic supervision tools and models to use as a standard of practice. We cover counselor/supervisor developmental level, cultural and contextual factors, ethical and legal issues, performance monitoring, and supervisory competencies. Some videotaping will occur. You will be introduced to the concepts and tenets of Clinical Supervision during the one-week didactic portion of class, worth 7 hours. Then the following week you will meet for live instruction for two days (14 hours) of practice with our expert Clinical Supervision instructor. Satisfactory completion of both modules is required to pass the course. Note: a minimum of six students is required for each live section.
Hybrid training dates:
February 10 – 14, 2025
Live via Zoom February 20 – 21 or 27 – 28, 2025 (Please reach out to Denise with your live session preference at Denise@7Cedarstraining.com)
May 19 – 23, 2025
Live via Zoom May 29 – 30, 2025
Tuition: $200 (non-refundable)
Prerequisites for Specialist trainees: Clinical Supervision I & Advanced Motivational Interviewing.
Prerequisites for LAC trainees: Clinical Supervision I.
The key to supporting the use of Motivational Interviewing in counseling is supervisory feedback and coaching. This two-day live course features Motivational Interviewing Assessment: Supervisory Tools for Enhancing Proficiency (MIA: STEP), which trains supervisees to use Motivational Interviewing in client assessments for joining and engaging the client, receiving better and more accurate information during the assessment, and improving client commitment to treatment following the assessment.
All Locations Live via Zoom:
December 19 – 20, 2024
March 27 – 28, 2025
Tuition: $170
In this three-week online training, the focus will be on the complex relationship between the client’s drugs of choice, lifestyle choices, and physiological health. Discussions will include immune system health, liver function, harm reduction and specific diseases such as HIV and hepatitis. Strategies will be presented for screening to determine level of risk, referral, and education about disease prevention and treatment. Expect to spend about five hours per week on coursework.
Online training dates:
March 24 – April 4, 2025
Pharmacology I
(14 Hours offered online over two weeks)
Tuition: $160
Training in pharmacology is a cornerstone of addiction counseling and a major part of what differentiates the professional field of addiction counseling from other mental health disciplines. This two-week online class will provide a solid base of knowledge about the drugs of abuse including what is happening in human physiology and behaviors.
Online training dates:
January 6 – 17, 2025
April 28 – May 9, 2025
Tuition: $210
This three-week online class presents the history and theories of addiction, the competencies required of an addiction counselor and scope of practice, and the NIDA principles of effective treatment. There will be an exploration of current evidence-based practices, addiction counselor certification and licensure in Colorado, and levels of care offered for addiction treatment. Expect to spend about seven hours per week on coursework.
Online training dates:
December 2 – 20, 2024
March 3 -21, 2025
