PESI Free Training for Mental Health, Rehab, and Healthcare Professionals
Learn from leading experts in the field at no cost. Add CE credit whenever you need it.
As a nonprofit, PESI has spent more than four decades working toward one mission: to connect knowledge with need. Free training is one of the most direct ways we live that out.
Every program on this page is free to attend. You'll learn from founders of therapeutic models, bestselling authors, and master clinicians like Peter A. Levine, PhD, Dan Siegel, MD, Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C, Kate Truitt, PhD, MBA, and Tian Dayton, PhD. The tools you pick up here are the same evidence-based strategies taught in our full-length courses, and you can bring them into your next session.
CE isn't included with free training, and that's intentional. We want the learning itself to be open to everyone: students, early-career clinicians, seasoned professionals exploring a new modality, and anyone who wants to grow. When you need credit for your license, most programs let you add CE for a small fee or upgrade to the full course.
How Free Training Works
Pick the format that fits your week. Both start at no cost, and both give you a path to CE if you want it.
Free Live Events
Join a leading expert in real time for a focused, practical training on a single topic. Ask questions, hear real case examples, and leave with strategies you can use right away. Seats are open to everyone, and you just need to register ahead of time.
Free On-Demand Courses
Start learning today with free 10 & 30-day access to the first part of a full PESI course. Watch at your own pace, see if the material fits your practice, then decide whether to keep going.
Need CE?
Free training is about the learning. When you need credit for your license or certification, you can add CE hours or upgrade to the complete course, often for less than the cost of a single seminar. Check each program for the CE hours available and your board's approval details.
FREE Live Events
Get dozens of easy-to-use evidence-based interventions that produce the kind of corrective healing experiences that repair attachment wounds, rewire shame and rebuild a genuine sense of self in clients looking to heal after growing up with addiction.
FREE Online Courses
Why We Make Expert Training Free
Because Access Shouldn't Be the Barrier
The clinicians who most need new tools often have the least room in their budget: graduate students, new professionals working toward licensure, and providers in community agencies and rural settings. As a nonprofit, we believe cost should never stop a social worker from learning a better way to treat trauma, or keep a counselor from exploring DBT before committing to a full course. Free training puts real clinical knowledge in the hands of the people doing the hardest work.
The Same Experts, the Same Standard
Free never means watered down. These programs are taught by the same faculty who lead our certifications and multi-day conferences, including the developers of models like Somatic Experiencing and Mindsight, a past president of the American Psychological Association, and clinicians who have trained thousands of their peers. Expect evidence-based content, real case examples, and strategies built for practice, not just theory.
Skills You Can Use This Week
Every free program is built for real-world application. Whether you're learning interventions for complex trauma, fresh approaches to grief, or ethical guidance on AI in therapy, you'll walk away with something concrete to try in your next session. That's the point: when you learn something useful, your clients benefit right away.
Explore Before You Commit
Curious about a new modality or eyeing a certification? Free training is a no-pressure way to see if an approach fits your practice and your clients. Many free programs connect to deeper PESI courses and certification tracks, so when you're ready to go further, your next step is already mapped out.
CE on Your Terms
Some days you need credit for your license. Other days you just want to learn. Free training respects both. Attend or watch at no cost, and add CE through the program page whenever you need it. You decide when credit matters, and the learning is yours either way.
Free Training FAQs
Yes. There's no cost to register for or attend any program on this page. You'll just create a free PESI account so we can send your access details.
No. CE isn't included with free registration. Most programs offer CE hours as an optional add-on or through an upgrade to the full course. Each program page lists the CE hours available and approval details for your profession.
Follow the instructions on the program page or in your registration email. For on-demand course previews, you can upgrade to the full course within your 30-day access window to unlock every part of the training and the ability to earn CE.
Free live events happen on a set date, so you learn in real time with the presenter. On-demand previews give you 30 days of free access to the first part of a full course, so you can watch whenever it works for you.
Mental health, healthcare, and rehab professionals at every stage, from students and pre-licensed clinicians to experienced practitioners exploring something new. If you want to grow your skills, you're welcome here.
We add new free live events regularly throughout the year. Check back often, or sign up for PESI emails to hear about new programs first.
Knowledge Belongs With the People Who Need It
Since 1979, PESI has worked to put world-class clinical education within reach of every professional who wants it. Free training is part of that promise. Find a program that speaks to your work, learn something you can use tomorrow, and come back whenever you're ready for more.
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