The Mental Health Administrative Professional (MHAP™) certification is designed to help you hit the ground running and be a valuable contributor to any mental health organization including private practices, inpatient facilities, non-profits and government agencies.

The MHAP™ consists of the following nine modules, in this order:

1. Overview of the mental health field and professional roles.
2. Compliance and HIPAA.
3. Risk assessment, crisis response and conflict resolution. 
4. Cultural expectations of the mental health workplace.
5. Scheduling and Other Key Client Interactions.
6. Billing and Insurance Overview.
7. Key Office / Software Skills (Spreadsheets, Email, etc.)
8. Contributing to Organizational Profitability and Efficiency. 
9. Capstone Project.

After completion, all graduates and their guests will be invited to an online graduation ceremony to celebrate their accomplishment.

The MHAP™ certification does NOT prepare you to provide direct therapeutic services, but instead provides you a solid foundation to be a valuable member of the team that supports clinicians. 

You will be better prepared than most however, to further pursue your education and opportunities as a therapist or clinician, with the head start that the MHAP™ certification provides. 

The MHAP™ will absolutely serve as a differentiator that helps you stand out to employers and compete for the best jobs, best pay and best promotions. 

While no certification or training can ever guarantee a job, we are confident that the seeing the MHAP™ certification on your resume will move you to the front of the line. 

Yes, the MHAP™ will help you in your practice launch. 

Whether you are an individual clinician who has been considering taking the leap into private practice, or a non-clinician who is helping someone launch their practice, we whole-heartedly believe that the MHAP™ certification will help shorten your learning curves, smooth your launch, and result in greater profitability, sooner. 

The MHAP™ is a trademark if SemiPrivatePractice.com, one of the leading training and peer support organizations within the mental health industry. 

At this time, the certification does NOT count towards graduation requirements at any institute of higher learning, but also may prepare you to move through your education faster. 

While some portions of the MHAP™ utilizes separate online courses that are primarily designed for clinicians and themselves offer CE's for completion (approximately 5 CE's), the MHAP course itself does not offer CE's for completion.

Please check with your individual state board about the applicability of this coursework to any continuing education requirements for your license in your state. 

Yes!!

As an alternative to the upfront fee of $2,500, SemiPrivatePractice.com offers a 9-month payment plan of $300 per month. Our payment plan requires a credit card to be placed on file and to be billed automatically each month. You can opt-in to the $300 per month payment plan when you register. 

We do offer $500 discounts for veterans / first responders (verification required), as well as organizational discounts for training multiple staff at the same time. If you are interested in arranging a quantity enrollment discount, fill out this form. 

We offer a limited number of need based scholarships each year to individuals seeking employment in the mental health field for the first-time. You can fill out our online scholarship application here.