Continuing Education with a Focus on Transpersonal Psychotherapy
Expand your skills through transformative learning grounded in transpersonal principles through Continuing Education courses
Transform Yourself,
Transform The world.
A 2-year MATP for those who seek to transform themselves and others to reach their fullest potential.
Let's start with a conversation.
Curious about deepening your skills in transpersonal psychotherapy or exploring which Continuing Education course fits your path?
We’re here to help—reach out and let’s start the conversation.
🧭 Why Students Choose Sofia
Students choose Sofia when they want continuing education that expands their clinical skills and supports their inner development.
For nearly five decades, Sofia University has led the way in holistic, experiential learning rooted in transpersonal psychology. Our Continuing Education courses blend academic depth with personal insight, taught by faculty who bring expertise in consciousness studies, psychotherapy, healing modalities, and integrative approaches.
Practitioners use these tools to strengthen their therapeutic work, deepen self-awareness, and bring more presence and compassion to the clients and communities they serve
What Makes Sofia University’s Continuing Education Courses Unique?
Our CE courses go beyond traditional clinical training by integrating mind, body, spirit, and consciousness. Each course draws from Sofia’s rich transpersonal lineage, helping practitioners deepen their therapeutic presence while expanding awareness of the inner self.
Rooted in Transpersonal Psychology
Every course is designed to strengthen your clinical practice with tools you can apply immediately—from supporting psychedelic integration to working with intuition, dreams, and ancestral trauma. You’ll gain techniques that enhance sessions and support deeper healing for your clients.
Practical Skills for Real Clinical Work
Learning with Expert Scholars
Courses are taught by experienced clinicians and researchers who specialize in transpersonal psychotherapy and integrative healing. Their real-world expertise brings depth, nuance, and guidance—bridging academic knowledge with practical, lived experience.
Our fully online, self-paced format allows you to complete CE units on your schedule while still engaging deeply with the material. Whether you're a working therapist, a coach, or a lifelong learner, you can advance your skills without pausing your life or practice.
Flexible, Self-Paced, and Accessible
Real Growth Starts with Real Conversation
If you’re ready to expand your therapeutic skill set and take the next meaningful step in your personal and professional growth. Sofia’s Continuing Education courses can help you get there.
Questions about which course is right for you? Contact John Elfers at
John.Elfers@sofia.edu
for guidance.
Explore the CE Courses
Supporting Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
7 CE Units
This course reviews the value of psychedelic therapies to mental health treatment and personal growth. It takes an in-depth look at the power of psychedelics to transform and current research on therapeutic benefits. It guides the navigation of the legal and ethical terrain for making appropriate referrals. This course is not designed to train clinicians to be psychedelic guides. Rather, it develops competence in supporting client use of psychedelic therapies and support clients integrating psychedelic experiences
Intuition as a Clinical Tool
4 CE Units
The therapeutic use of intuition is a skill that is used by many experienced mental health clinicians. This course reviews a variety of definitions, models and theories of intuition, and in particular, definitions of intuition used in clinical settings. Instruction is provided in accessing personal intuition and how to distinguish intuition from countertransference and projection. This course offers guidance in applying intuition to the therapeutic setting for the therapist and in supporting clients in accessing their own intuition.
Introduction to Clinical Dreamwork
4 CE Units
This course reviews a variety of definitions, tools and ways for working with dreams in individual therapy. Instruction is provided in understanding the benefits of clinical dreamwork, tools for working effectively with dreams and an experience of working with a dream. This course offers guidance in using client’s dreams in clinical practice and in supporting clients to create their own dream work practice.
Healing Ancestral Trauma
3 CE Units
This course introduces ancestral trauma as the physical, psychological, and spiritual harm that can pass between generations. The effects of ancestral trauma can have a profound impact on mental health. Here you will learn to recognize ancestral trauma and screen clients for evidence of this form of trauma. Clinical models for how to address this trauma are presented.
Over 6,577 graduates and counting!
The Continuing Education Courses are for you if you're...
Someone looking to deepen your therapeutic practice with holistic, integrative approaches
A clinician, coach, or healer seeking tools that support both client transformation and your own inner growth
Someone curious about modalities like intuition, dreamwork, psychedelic integration, or ancestral healing—and ready to apply them ethically and skillfully in your work
Your Transformation is Our Mission
Since 1975, Sofia University has supported learners on paths of personal discovery, professional excellence, and holistic growth. Our Continuing Education courses carry this legacy forward—blending academic depth with experiential practices that expand awareness, strengthen therapeutic presence, and cultivate meaningful transformation.
We’re not just offering CE units.
We’re helping you deepen your insight, refine your clinical skills, and grow as a whole person—so you can make a more conscious, compassionate impact in the lives you touch.
Ready to Grow Personally and Professionally?
Let’s connect—your admissions counselor is here for you to ask questions, share goals, and find out how our Continuing Education Courses fit your vision.
