Boundaries vs rapport is a core ethical issue in helping relationships. Trust and connection are essential, but they must never blur professional roles. Rapport supports client goals and autonomy. Boundaries protect against harm, dependency, and role confusion. Ethical practice requires self awareness, supervision, and clear limits so the relationship remains client centered, purposeful, and professionally appropriate.

This course explores how addiction reshapes the brain through neuroplastic processes and how targeted interventions can promote measurable neural healing. Participants will examine the biological foundations of recovery, understand how substance use reorganizes reward, stress, and executive systems, and learn evidence-informed strategies that actively support brain repair across the recovery timeline.

This course examines substance use and addiction within probation and parole populations. Participants explore the intersection of addiction, criminal justice involvement, trauma, and systemic barriers, as well as the impact on treatment engagement and recovery. The course highlights practical approaches for assessment, justice-informed counselling, and coordinated support.

This course examines the intersection of borderline personality disorder and substance use disorders. Participants explore emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, relational instability, and self-harm risk as they relate to addiction and treatment engagement. The course highlights counselling considerations that support structure, safety, and integrated, evidence-informed intervention.

This course introduces addiction professionals to Internal Family Systems (IFS) as a therapeutic approach for working with substance use clients. Participants will explore core IFS concepts and consider how parts-based interventions can support insight, self-regulation, and recovery-oriented treatment planning.

This course examines the relationship between sexual trauma and the development of compulsive behaviors, including substance use and process addictions. Participants explore trauma-related coping patterns, shame responses, and emotional regulation challenges that can reinforce compulsivity. The course highlights trauma-informed counselling considerations that support safety, stabilization, and recovery.

This course examines the co-occurrence of complex post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders. Participants explore how prolonged trauma, emotional dysregulation, and relational harm contribute to addiction vulnerability and treatment complexity. The course highlights trauma-informed counselling considerations that support stabilization, safety, and integrated recovery.

Certification Course for CNTP

This course provides an overview of the role of addiction counsellors within drug court settings. Participants examine interdisciplinary collaboration, ethical considerations, and the balance between therapeutic support and judicial requirements. The course highlights practical responsibilities related to assessment, reporting, and client engagement.

Trauma Informed Addiction Treatment trains addiction counsellors to recognize trauma and integrate trauma informed care into practice. The course explores trauma and ACEs, the neurobiology of trauma and addiction, trauma responses, and creating safety in therapeutic relationships. Participants examine complex trauma, attachment, cultural considerations, and gender responsive care. This three hour CACCF course equips counsellors with practical trauma informed treatment skills.

This course examines the therapeutic use of ketamine in the treatment of substance use disorders, with a balanced focus on clinical potential, limitations, and associated risks. Addiction professionals will explore current evidence, safety considerations, ethical issues, and the counselor’s role in supporting clients receiving ketamine-assisted interventions.

This 3-hour course provides foundational knowledge in clinical supervision for addiction counselling professionals. Topics include supervision roles, historical and theoretical foundations, ethical and legal frameworks, developmental models, supervisory relationships, power dynamics, communication, assessment, cultural responsiveness, and addiction-specific demands. Participants also explore self-care, vicarious trauma prevention, and ethical dilemma management.

This course explores the relationship between substance use disorders and criminal thinking patterns. Participants examine common cognitive distortions, belief systems, and behavioural rationalizations that can interfere with treatment engagement and recovery. The course provides insight into counselling approaches that address thinking errors and support accountability and behaviour change.

This course explores the relationship between housing instability, poverty, and substance use. Participants examine structural, social, and psychological factors that increase vulnerability to addiction and complicate recovery. The course highlights counselling considerations and service approaches that support stability, harm reduction, and long-term recovery.

Women and Addiction: Gender-Specific Issues trains addiction counsellors on gender-specific factors in substance use disorders. Topics include telescoping, trauma, relapse prevention, treatment barriers, trauma-informed care, pregnancy challenges, mental health, body image, and relationship dynamics in recovery. Gender-responsive models and empowerment approaches are explored. This two-hour course, presented by CACCF, equips counsellors with competencies for gender-responsive care.

This course examines post-acute withdrawal syndrome and its impact on mood, cognition, stress tolerance, and relapse risk during early and long-term recovery. Participants explore common PAWS symptoms, timelines, and contributing factors across substance types. The course provides practical strategies to support stabilization, client education, and sustained recovery planning.

This course examines how unresolved anger and resentment can increase vulnerability to relapse during recovery. Participants explore emotional triggers, cognitive patterns, and interpersonal dynamics that sustain these states. The course highlights counselling considerations that support emotional regulation, accountability, and relapse prevention.

This course examines burnout risk among addiction professionals working in high-demand and emotionally intensive environments. Participants explore contributing factors such as workload, secondary trauma, and boundary erosion, along with early warning signs. The course highlights practical strategies to support resilience, self-care, and long-term professional sustainability.

This course explores ethical challenges that arise in the delivery of addiction counselling through telehealth platforms. Participants examine issues such as confidentiality, informed consent, professional boundaries, and risk management in virtual settings. The course highlights considerations that support ethical practice, client safety, and professional accountability in remote care.