RETROACTIVE CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT FOR LMFTS

We encourage individual applicants to advocate for sponsors to include LMFTs in their CE offerings. In cases where they have not, NEAFAST strives to approve qualifying individual retroactive applications in a timely manner to ensure clinicians have ample time to prepare for renewal. NEAFAST's retroactive CE application review stops on December 15th and resumes January 1st of each year. It is applicants’ responsibility to monitor for approval and apply for an application extension with the Massachusetts Board of Allied Mental Health and Human Services as needed. 

Trainings provided or certified by the AAMFT DO NOT require submission through the retroactive MFT CEU program. If a training has been pre-approved, your certificate will state the program has been approved by NEAFAST or the AAMFT for LMFT Continuing Education. If your training does not say this, or states that it is eligible for MFT CEUs, it has NOT been approved for LMFT CE Credit. NEAFAST recommends that all LMFTs confirm that an individual program that is not provided by NEAFAST or the AAMFT has been approved prior to taking the training. Per the Massachusetts Board of Allied Mental Health and Human Services, all trainings not approved or sponsored by NEAFAST or the AAMFT must be approved for retroactive credit before they may be used to meet licensure continuing education requirements.

Clinicians licensed in multiple states must ensure that their CEUs have been approved by all states in which they are licensed. Please be aware, if a training is specific to a single state (e.g. a training on legal requirements for documentation in California) it will not be approved for CE credit in Massachusetts as the knowledge is not generalizable to all states or practice. 

FEES AND REQUIREMENTS

All individuals applying for retroactive CEUs MUST complete the retroactive CE application to ensure criteria have been met for approval. For more information about approval criteria for programs please click here. For general information about license renewal please click here. All trainings must meet ethical and legal standards as published by the AAMFT Code of Ethics and the Massachusetts Board of Allied Mental Health and Human Services to receive approval.

Clinicians may submit up to 5 separate activities per application. In the case of single events that provide multiple separate CE certificates for subsections of the training, each portion of the training will need to be submitted as an event to allow for a full review of all portions of the training. 

Please allow 6 weeks for processing of all CE’s and 3 weeks for expedited applications.

NEAFAST CANNOT GUARANTEE EXPEDITED APPLICATIONS WILL BE APPROVED OR APPROVED PRIOR TO RENEWAL DEADLINES.

Please review all criteria carefully as NEAFAST does not offer refunds for application fees in circumstances where programs are rejected for not meeting the continuing education requirements. 

If you have any questions not addressed above please contact [email protected]