Stay certified and grow your skills with self-paced, on-demand CEU courses designed specifically for Texas Mental Health and Recovery Support Peer Specialists and Peer Specialist Supervisors. Start anytime, learn at your own pace, and earn the CEUs you need for recertification.
Peer Academy’s most comprehensive self-paced courses. Each multi-hour course combines video, practical readings, real-world scenarios, reflection, activities, downloadable tools, and knowledge checks, so you build skills you can use in real peer support practice.
Communication, Relationships and the Drama Triangle
Strengthen boundary awareness, communication, and role clarity. Recognize Drama Triangle patterns, practice voicing boundaries, and use supervision to keep your peer practice ethical and sustainable.
4 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Diversity, Equity, and Connection Across Differences
Build culturally responsive, ethical practice. Explore identity, implicit bias, cross-cultural communication, CLAS Standards, and health disparities, and practice asking instead of assuming.
6 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Confidence, Connection, and Guiding Meaningful Groups
Lead welcoming, organized, trauma-informed groups online or in person. Learn to set expectations, structure meetings, co-facilitate, and handle conflict and low engagement.
4 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Recovery, Wellness, and Meeting the Whole Person
Build mental health literacy while staying within the peer role. Explore non-stigmatizing language, treatment and support pathways, and how to respond to distress without stepping into diagnosis.
4 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Practical Tools, Critical Thinking, and Confident Decisions
Approach complex situations with clarity. Use power mapping, the PICBBA process, and Nonviolent Communication to move from identifying a problem to action, while supporting choice.
4 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Balance, Resilience, and Building a Sustainable Peer Practice
Build realistic self-care practices that protect your recovery and capacity. Recognize compassion fatigue, separate personal and professional self-care, and map the supports you can rely on.
6 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Recovery, Support, and Self-Determination
Build practical substance use literacy grounded in choice and dignity. Explore stages of change, MAT and MOUD, harm reduction, mutual aid, and multiple pathways to recovery.
4 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Presence, Purpose, and Intention
Strengthen the self-awareness, listening, and conflict skills needed to support others with intention, without fixing or rescuing, while working within a larger recovery team.
5 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Safety, Support, and Recovery
Understand how violence and abuse affect people and communities. Learn trauma-informed responses to disclosure and person-owned safety planning, while staying grounded in the peer role.
4 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Practical, concentrated learning on a specific area of peer support or supervision. These self-paced courses go deeper than a one-hour training without the time commitment of a Flagship Course.
Who It’s For
Certified peer specialists and supervisors
Format: On-Demand
Self-paced, 1–3 hours
Includes: CEU completion certificate
Influence, Language, and the Power of Your Voice
2 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Ethics, Boundaries, and the Power of Showing Up
1 Total CEU Hour
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Collaboration, Scope, and Your Professional Team
2 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Leadership, Identity, and Influence
3 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
Observation, Feedback, and the Mechanics of Strong Supervision
3 Total CEU Hours
Self-Paced On-Demand
CEU Completion Certificate
This is a complete 40-hour certification training that gives you the skills, ethics, and confidence to provide professional mental health peer support. You’ll learn how to share your story purposefully, support others through crisis, and navigate the Texas certification process with clarity.
Package Includes
One-time payment
Or pay monthly: $200/month × 12 months
Flexible payment plan available
Perfect For: Peers Needing Recertification (20 CEU hours including 3 ethics)
Eight standalone, self-paced courses exploring whole-person wellness through the realities of peer support work. Take any course on its own, or complete the full series for a broader look at whole health in professional practice.
Learning Series: each course can be completed on its own. Choose the topics most relevant to your work.
Four standalone, self-paced courses to help you respond to crisis with clarity, confidence, and ethical grounding, from legal and ethical responsibilities to direct conversations about suicide and presence over control.
Learning Series: each course can be completed on its own. Choose the topics most relevant to your work.
Six standalone, self-paced courses for peer specialist supervisors. Take the competencies you need most, or complete the full series to cover all 20 Peer Specialist Supervision Core Competencies.
Learning Series: each course can be completed on its own. Choose the topics most relevant to your work.
| Example Course Path | General CEUs | Ethics CEUs | Total Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boundaries | 03 | 01 | 04 |
| Cultural Competency | 05 | 01 | 06 |
| Self-Care | 05 | 01 | 06 |
| Supporting Others | 04 | 01 | 05 |
| TOTAL | 17 | 04 | 21 Hours |
Mix and match: Choose any combination of Flagship, Focused, and Learning Series courses to reach your 20 hours.
Browse every on-demand CEU course on Peer Academy Learn. Start today and earn your certificate at your own pace.
Flagship Courses, Focused Courses for Peers, and the Peer Learning Series are designed for certified peer specialists (MHPS and RSPS). Courses marked “For Supervisors” are designed for certified peer specialist supervisors.
All courses are 100% on-demand and self-paced through Peer Academy Learn, our online learning platform. Start anytime and move through video, readings, real-world scenarios, activities, and knowledge checks on your own schedule.
A CEU completion certificate is provided after you complete each course.
Texas peer specialists need 20 CEU hours, including 3 hours of ethics. Every Flagship Course includes 1 Ethics CEU, so you can mix and match courses to meet the requirement.
Yes. Each course in a Learning Series is standalone. Take the topics most relevant to your work, or complete the full series.
This page covers continuing education for certified peers. If you’re working toward certification, explore our CORE, MHPS, and PSS training pages, or view the training calendars.
