Continuing education for Texas LPCs
20 Hours of Continuing Education.
One Practical Course.
From Guardrails to Wisdom is a professional continuing education course for counselors who work with children, adolescents, parents, and families navigating smartphones, social media, gaming, pornography exposure, online exploitation, AI relationships, and other digital-age concerns.
20.0
Total CE hours
3.0
Professional ethics & responsibility
3.0
Distinct population: children & adolescents
The 3.0 ethics hours and 3.0 distinct-population hours are included within the 20.0 total — they are not additional hours.
- 20.0 total CE hours
- 3.0 ethics
- 3.0 distinct population competency
- Online · self-paced
What can these hours count toward?
Texas LPCs currently complete 24 hours of continuing education during each renewal period, including required hours in ethics and competency with a distinct population. This course is designed to award hours that may be applied toward those categories.
Total continuing education
Texas requirement: 24 hours
This course: 20.0 hours
Professional ethics & responsibility
Texas requirement: 6 hours
This course: 3.0 hours
Distinct population competency
Texas requirement: 3 hours
This course: 3.0 hours designated for Children & Adolescents
Designed to address Texas's 3-hour distinct-population competency requirement.
- 20.0 of the 24 total CE hours
- 3.0 of the 6 required ethics hours
- 3.0 hours designated for the 3-hour distinct-population requirement: children & adolescents
The 3.0 ethics hours and 3.0 distinct-population hours are already included within the 20.0-hour course total. Completing this course does not by itself complete every Texas LPC renewal requirement. Licensees are responsible for determining whether this continuing education activity meets the requirements applicable to their license and renewal period.
What else might I need for renewal?
Depending on your circumstances, requirements remain beyond what this course provides. For a standard Texas LPC, this course does not itself provide:
- • The remaining CE hours needed to reach the full 24-hour renewal total.
- • The remaining ethics hours needed to reach the 6-hour ethics requirement.
- • The required Texas LPC jurisprudence examination.
Under current Texas rules, successful completion of the Texas LPC jurisprudence examination may be claimed as 1 hour of ethics continuing education. This course does not provide or satisfy the jurisprudence examination.
For LPC Supervisors: this course is not designated as supervision continuing education. Texas LPCs maintaining supervisor status have a separate 6-hour supervision CE requirement, which this course does not address.
Ready to start your 20.0 hours?
Online, self-paced, with a verifiable completion certificate.
Why the distinct-population designation is children & adolescents
Develop competency in assessing, counseling, and supporting children and adolescents, and in coaching caregivers, regarding technology-related developmental, behavioral, relational, and safety concerns.
What you'll learn
Professional learners work through the same 16-module curriculum families receive, plus a clinician-only layer built on top of it. This is not a parenting course repackaged with a certificate: each module carries a Professional Application that turns the material into assessment, formulation, caregiver consultation, and documentation work.
16 modules of core instruction
Screen time and the developing brain, social media, gaming, pornography exposure, predators and grooming, cyberbullying, AI companions, sextortion, identity, hard conversations, and more.
A Professional Application in every module
Applied clinical work, completed and saved as you go.
An 8-block ethics sequence
Professional-only, covering confidentiality, consent, reporting, escalation, scope, and documentation.
Module reviews, final assessment, attestation
A 30-question CE assessment and completion attestation before the certificate is issued.
Professional Applications included
One in each of the 16 modules — for example The Displacement Intake, Attention Differential, Social Media Risk Stratification, Functional Substitution Map.
3.0 hours of professional ethics & responsibility
The course includes a professional-only ethics sequence of 8 blocks, written for clinicians working with minors and their caregivers around digital-age concerns.
Block 01
Confidentiality With Minor Clients
Block 02
Informed Consent, Assent & Caregiver Expectations
Block 03
Digital Disclosures & Limits of Confidentiality
Block 04
Mandatory Reporting Decision-Making
Block 05
Suicide / Self-Harm & Acute Safety Escalation
Block 06
Scope of Competence, Consultation & Referral
Block 07
“Please Don't Tell My Parents”
Block 08
Ethical Decision-Making & Documentation
These 3.0 ethics hours are included within the 20.0 total CE hours. This course does not provide all 6 ethics hours required for Texas LPC renewal.
What completion requires
The certificate is earned, not purchased. Professional CE learners complete:
- The required course lessons
- Module reviews
- The Professional Application in each module
- The Professional Ethics & Responsibility sequence
- The final CE assessment
- The course evaluation and completion attestation
Final assessment
30 questions · 70% passing score · unlimited attempts.
Your CE certificate
On successful completion, the system generates a certificate documenting:
- Learner name
- Course title: From Guardrails to Wisdom — Professional CE Edition
- Completion date
- 20.0 total CE hours
- 3.0 Professional Ethics & Responsibility hours
- 3.0 Distinct Population Competency: Children & Adolescents hours
- Provider and instructor: Elevate Counseling Group · Andrew Simmons, LPC-S
- Certificate number
- Verification code
- Course version (rkdw-v1-2026-08)
Certificates can be checked independently through this site's public verification page, which displays only the name on the certificate, the course title and version, the completion date, and the hours awarded. License numbers and other private learner information are never shown publicly.
Andrew Simmons, LPC-S
Andrew Simmons is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor in Texas and the founder of Elevate Counseling Group. This training was developed out of his work with children, adolescents, parents, and families, and his role supervising other counselors.
The professional version translates the family-facing material into clinical assessment, ethical decision-making, caregiver consultation, documentation, and intervention considerations.
Earn 20.0 CE hours on your own schedule
Enroll in the Professional CE track of From Guardrails to Wisdom. You'll be asked for your license type and number so they can appear on your CE record.
20.0 continuing education hours
— one-time
Online · self-paced
- 20.0 total CE hours
- 3.0 Professional Ethics & Responsibility hours (included within the 20.0)
- 3.0 hours designated as Distinct Population Competency: Children & Adolescents (included within the 20.0)
- A Professional Application in every module
- Final CE assessment
- Verifiable completion certificate
One-time payment · Secure checkout · 7-day refund policy
Licensees are responsible for determining whether this continuing education activity meets the requirements applicable to their license and renewal period.