Help Clients with Terminal Illness Find Peace and Meaning With End of Life Psychotherapy, Navigate the Right to Die and Medical Aid in Dying, and Explore the Pros and Cons of Aggressive Advance Directives
In this heart-felt, experiential 6-hour Ethics CE Course you'll ...
✔️ Help people with terminal illness find peace and meaning with end of life psychotherapy
✔️ Differentiate desire to hasten death from suicidality among people living with terminal illness
✔️ Gain a deeper understanding of the Right to Die movement, Medical Aid in Dying, and Death With Dignity
✔️ Learn to ethically support individuals and families participating in Death With Dignity
✔️ Explore philosophical problems associated with advance directives related to dementia end of life care
Informed Consent: This is an experiential workshop that asks participants to participate in end of life activities and reflect on end of life experiences of their own. As a result, this workshop may elicit strong emotions. Please take this into account when registering.
End of Life Ethics & Psychotherapy
-6 CE Ethics Credits-
When: Live Webinar 12/12/25 at 9-4:30 EST
Where: Zoom link emailed to you upon registration
CE Credit: Earn 6 Ethics CE Credits / 6 CMC Contact Hours
CEs for: Social Workers, Psychologists, Therapists, LMFTs, Counselors, Aging Life Care Experts, and Care Managers (ASWB, APA, NBCC, NACCM, CAMFT approved)
Can't attend live? No problem. Register here and you'll automatically get access to the recording (also eligible for CE credits)
Cost: $249 Early Bird Rate (Expires 11/21/25, then rate becomes $299)
Informed Consent: This is an experiential workshop that asks participants to participate in end of life activities and reflect on end of life experiences of their own. As a result, this workshop may elicit strong emotions. Please take this into account when registering.
Registration Closes 12/11/25 at 5pm ET.
Can't Attend Live?
No problem. Register here and we'll send you access to the recording (also eligible for CE credit following successful completion of post-test). You'll have access to the recording for one year, but you must register before the deadline for access to recording and bonuses.
What Therapists Are Saying About This Ethics Course
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FREE BONUS #1
Life Review Therapy Clinician's Guide + Tools
Give your clients (and yourself) a trusted map for meaning-making. This warm, practical guide walks you through how to use Life Review Therapy with older adults—so you can help them weave their stories into a coherent, healing whole.
Inside, you’ll find:
✅ A simple, session-by-session framework (6–8 meetings) for guiding life review from early memories to legacy.
✅ Therapist question prompts for each life chapter.
✅ How to balance joyful and painful memories to foster dignity, resilience, and emotional closure
✅ Adaptations for cognitive impairment and dementia.
✅ Research-informed benefits you can share with clients and families (reduced depression/anxiety, greater life satisfaction)
This guide turns conversation into transformation—helping you honor the full arc of a person’s life with compassion, clarity, and evidence-based structure.
Retail Value: $47 – Yours FREE With Enrollment
FREE BONUS #2
Assessing Desire for Hastened Death – Clinician’s Guide
Confidently navigate one of the most sensitive conversation in end of life care. This practical guide helps you distinguish desire for hastened death from suicidality, structure your assessment, and respond with compassion and ethical care.
Inside, you’ll get:
✅ A concise overview of Desire for Hastened Death (DHD) vs. suicidality.
✅ Step-by-step assessment checklists and key questions you can use in session.
✅ Assessment Tools for identifying psychological distress in context of Desire to Hasten Death
This resource turns uncertainty into a grounded, ethical pathway for support.
Retail Value: $47 – Yours FREE With Enrollment
FREE BONUS #3
Suicide Safety Planning With Older Adults – Clinician’s Guide + Worksheets
Turn one of the hardest moments in care into a compassionate pathway to safety. Designed specifically for late life, this guide equips you to assess risk, co-create a practical safety plan, and mobilize supports.
What’s inside:
✅ A warm, clinician-led flow from rapport to action using the Stanley-Brown Safety Planning Intervention—adapted for aging and brain health.
✅ The “Five D’s” framework (Disease, Depression, Deadly Means, Disconnectedness, Disability) to quickly recognize late-life risk patterns you might otherwise miss.
✅ Step-by-step safety planning.
✅ Special sections for dementia, sensory loss, and long-term care settings.
✅ Fill-in safety plan worksheets
Retail Value: $47 – Yours FREE With Enrollment
Can't Attend Live?
No problem. Register here and we'll send you access to the recording (also eligible for CE credit following successful completion of post-test). You'll have access to the recording for one year, but you must register before the deadline for access to recording and bonuses.
What Therapists Are Saying About This Ethics Course
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I'm so glad you're here!
End-of-life psychotherapy is sacred work. It invites us into sensitive, complex terrain—grief and love, autonomy and protection—and sometimes into conversations about Death with Dignity/Medical Aid in Dying. Systems don’t always make space for this depth, but you can.
As therapists, social workers, psychologists, and aging-services professionals, you are a secure base for clients, families, and teams. You are uniquely positioned to hold complexity and fear, and help people navigate ethical dilemmas with clarity and compassion.
I’m Dr. Regina Koepp, a Stanford-trained, board-certified clinical psychologist and geropsychologist, and founder of the Center for Mental Health & Aging. For more than two decades across major health systems, ethics committees, and collaborative care teams, I’ve helped professionals deliver trauma-informed, ethically sound care to medically vulnerable adults.
This training offers practical tools and a steady framework to honor self-determination, dignity, and safety—while supporting people who are dying and their families with tenderness. I’m grateful you’re here. Together, we can ensure older adults receive expert, compassionate care at the end of life.
Can't Attend Live?
No problem. Register here and we'll send you access to the recording (also eligible for CE credit following successful completion of post-test). You'll have access to the recording for one year, but you must register before the deadline for access to recording and bonuses.
This 6-hour intermediate ethics course will challenge conventional thinking about the rights of older adults living with terminal illness and separately older adults with dementia disorders. Participants will learn three (3) models of psychotherapy for use at the end of life and gain tools for differentiating desire to hasten death when living with a terminal illness from suicidality. In addition, the right to die, Medical Aid in Dying (MAID)/Death With Dignity (DWD) movements will be explored, including ethical considerations and dilemmas, and therapists will discover unique ways that they may support people with MAID. This webinar will also explore the topic of aggressive advance directives and discuss ethical considerations and philosophical problems related to dementia end of life care, including the questions: Is someone with severe dementia the same person as they were prior to this state? Are people living with dementia allowed to evolve, change, and make decisions for their own life?
After attending this intermediate-level program in full, participants will be able to:
- 1. Deepen therapists’ clinical and ethical competence in providing psychotherapy to older adults with terminal illness and dementia, applying three (3) psychotherapy models tailored to end-of-life care.
- 2. Strengthen clinicians’ ability to differentiate between suicidality and a desire to hasten death among clients with terminal illness, and to respond therapeutically and ethically in ways that promote dignity and alleviate suffering.
- 3. Increase understanding of ethical, legal, and philosophical considerations in the Right to Die, Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), and Death With Dignity (DWD) movements, including implications for clinical practice and the therapeutic relationship.
- 4. Enhance clinical skill in supporting individuals and families navigating end-of-life decisions by integrating evidence-informed psychotherapy approaches with ethical decision-making frameworks.
- 5. Promote reflective practice and self-awareness in working with death, dying, and autonomy, helping therapists examine personal values, countertransference, and societal attitudes toward aging and end-of-life care.
Course Schedule:
With successful completion of course requirements, this course is eligible for 6 ETHICS Continuing Education (CE) Credit/6 CMC Contact Hours for therapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, care managers, and more.
Dr. Regina Koepp is a Stanford-trained, board certified clinical psychologist, geropsychologist, and founder and CEO of the Center for Mental Health & Aging, the go-to place for mental health and aging. Dr. Koepp is a sought-after speaker and educator, and provides staff training and continuing education courses to professionals on topics surrounding mental health and aging as well as sexual health and aging.
She was formerly a lead psychologist at University of Vermont Medical Center, Assistant Professor at Emory University Department of Psychiatry, and psychologist at the Atlanta VA Health Care System, where she provided direct patient care and consultation on the Geropsychiatry Outpatient Mental Health team for more than a decade and served on the VA Central Office’s Geriatric Mental Health Field Advisory Committee.
She is formerly Vice Chair of the Georgia Psychological Association Ethics Committee and served on the Atlanta VA Medical Center’s Ethics Committee, the Clinical Advisory Workgroup, and as chair of the Psychology Professional Standards Board for several years.
Dr. Koepp has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Next Avenue, AARP, and other national media outlets. She is a contributing writer at Psychology Today and Psychotherapy Networker, where she discusses mental health and aging.
Dr. Koepp earned her doctorate at the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences where she won the Richard W. Morrell Community Commitment Award.
Financial: Regina Koepp, PSYD, ABPP is founder and owner of the Center for Mental Health & Aging (CMHA) and co-director of the CMHA CE Training Program. She serves on the board of GrayHawk Health
Non-financial: Regina Koepp is a member of GPA, APA, ASA. The CMHA CE Training Program advisory committee independently reviews Dr. Koepp’s CE presentations to ensure that Dr. Koepp’s presentations meet CE program requirements.
There is no known commercial support or conflict of interest for this CE program, content, or sponsor.
Every Mental Health & Aging Services Professional Needs To Take An Ethics And Aging Course.
Here's Why:
✔️ Older adults face a distinct set of ethical issues like end-of-life decisions, autonomy, and informed consent, especially in cases of cognitive decline. You'll need tools to navigate these challenges.
✔️ You’ll be in positions to advocate for the rights and dignity of your older clients, empowering them to make informed decisions about their mental health, well-being, and end of life care.
✔️ You’ll be asked to guide professionals and families on navigating an older person’s independence and self-determination while ensuring their safety and well-being.
✔️ Understanding the ethical considerations surrounding family dynamics, caregiver stress, and intergenerational conflicts is essential for effective and compassionate care.
What Makes Us Different Than Other Continuing Education Companies?
We’re not just another mass market CEU provider. We’re on a mission to ensure every mental health professional has tools to meet the mental health needs of older adults.
✔️ Specialized Training for Aging Clients – Unlike other CE providers that go broad, we go deep and provide trainings exclusively on the mental health needs of older adults.
✔️ Expert-Led - Our courses are led by experts in the field of mental health and aging.
✔️ Mission-Driven & Inclusive – We are a woman-owned, independent company committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in aging mental health care.
This isn’t just another CE training—it’s a movement toward better mental health care for older adults.
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Can't Attend Live?
No problem. Register here and we'll send you access to the recording (also eligible for CE credit following successful completion of post-test). You'll have access to the recording for one year, but you must register before the deadline for access to recording and bonuses.
Continuing Education Approvals
Social Workers
Center for Mental Health & Aging, #1801, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Center for Mental Health & Aging maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/25/23-3/25/26. Social workers completing this course receive 6 ETHICS continuing education credit(s).
Psychologists
Center for Mental Health & Aging is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Center for Mental Health & Aging maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Counselors
Center for Mental Health and Aging (CMHA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7230. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Center for Mental Health and Aging (CMHA) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Care Managers
CMHA is approved by the National Academy of Certified Care Managers (NACCM) as a continuing education provider, #21-905CMHA. This activity approved for 6 CMC contact hours.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs)
Center for Mental Health & Aging (CMHA), Provider #1032775, is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for California LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. CMHA maintains responsibility for this program/course and it’s contents
Center for Mental Health & Aging is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. In many state licensing jurisdictions, APA approved continuing education programs qualify for LMFT CE credits. See what your state requires here.
This course is available LIVE on 12/12/25 via Zoom. You must attend LIVE to earn LIVE Ethics CE Credits. Attendance is taken for live participation. A Zoom link will be emailed following purchase. Registration for Live event closes 12/11/25 at 5pm ET.
Can't attend live? No problem, when you register, you'll be automatically enrolled in the recorded version of this webinar- available 24-48 hours after live program. You'll get instant access to the bonuses when you purchase this course (if you purchase within the "limited time offer" window).
Following purchase, you'll receive an email from "Dr. Regina Koepp- Center for Mental Health & Aging" with your receipt and another email with links to your courses (don't forget to check your spam folder). For LIVE CE Webinars, you’ll receive an email with a Zoom link to join on the day of the live webinar.
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This is a limited time offer. To get access to this course at the "early bird" rate and the free bonuses, you must purchase by the deadline. If you miss the deadline, you can purchase these courses at their regular rates on our website here.
Participants will have their participation registered through the Center for Mental Health & Aging. To earn continuing education (CE) credits you must complete the following steps for on demand/pre-recorded courses::
Certificates of completion will be emailed immediately following submission of electronic survey and also available for download in the course platform. It's that simple!
Center for Mental Health & Aging is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in continuing education activities and will conduct all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. If participants have special needs, reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate them. Please contact [email protected] with questions, concerns or to request special accommodations.
CMHA will respond to grievances in a reasonable, ethical, and timely manner. Grievances may be submitted by course participants in writing to [email protected]. CMHA’s complete Grievance Procedure will be provided upon request. You may request Grievance Procedure by emailing [email protected].
In order to be successful with online learning, you must have basic computer or mobile device and internet skills. You should be able to use a browser, such as Chrome or Firefox, and keep it updated to the most recent version. You will need to be able to create an account at courses.mentalhealthandaging.com, complete the purchase process, and visit your account again to access your materials.
You should understand how to click buttons, use video controls such as pause and play, and download and open PDF files. For live programs, you will also need to know how to operate Zoom.
ALL LIVE workshop refunds will be honored for cancellations if received within 30 days of purchase AND at least one (1) day prior to the date of a live webinar or live workshop. All on demand/pre-recorded courses are backed by a 7-day money back guarantee. Please note that payments made via Credit Card have certain fees associated with them, some of which are non-recoupable and are therefore non-refundable by Center for Mental Health & Aging. Therefore, payments made by Credit Card will have a three percent (3%) credit card fee deducted from the refund. Should you have any questions regarding our refund policies, please contact [email protected].
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Registrant is responsible for ensuring that CE credits meet the criteria for their own jurisdiction requirements.
Content and materials in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession’s standards.