GWI designs and delivers accredited Continuing Professional Development (CPD) trainings for mental-health professionals — helping guidance counselors, psychometricians, and psychologists keep their practice current, competent, and compliant.
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What is CPD?
Continuing Professional Development is the ongoing learning that keeps licensed professionals competent and up to date after they qualify. For mental-health practitioners it means staying current with ethics, methods, and evidence — so every client receives safe, effective, and principled care.
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The law that governs it
In the Philippines, CPD is mandated by Republic Act No. 10912, the Continuing Professional Development Act of 2016. It makes CPD a requirement for the practice of all regulated professions under the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).
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The implementing guidelines
The PRC administers RA 10912 through its Implementing Rules and Regulations and each profession’s CPD Council. GWI’s programs serve professionals under two PRC boards — the Professional Regulatory Board of Psychology and the Professional Regulatory Board of Guidance and Counseling — whose CPD Councils accredit providers and programs and set the credit units each activity carries, including the ethics units required in every compliance period.
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What it means for your practice
Registered psychologists, psychometricians, and guidance counselors must earn CPD credit units within each three-year compliance period to renew their Professional Identification Card (PIC). GWI’s CPD trainings are accredited activities that award CPD credit — so the time you invest counts directly toward keeping your licence active.
Our established CPD trainings
A progression of branded programs GWI has developed and delivered for the mental-health community — from foundational skills to advanced psychotherapy practice.
Level 1 · FoundationsLevel 1
Who can joinFresh graduates & new professionals; a refresher for helping professionals
DurationAbout 14 hours
FormatLecture + demonstration workshops
Basic Counseling Skills
Equips fresh graduates and new professionals with the core skills of counseling, and serves as a refresher for helping professionals — grounded throughout in counseling ethics and best practice.
What participants build
Fundamentals & principles of counseling
Ethics in counseling
The stages & process of counseling
Core counseling skills (with return demo)
Traits of an effective counselor
Applying skills across multi-sectoral & multicultural clients
Deepens practical counseling skill through in-depth techniques and approaches delivered by industry experts — equipping practitioners to support individuals across varied settings.
Who can joinLicensed & experienced counselors and psychologists
Duration3 days
FormatLecture, demonstration & return demo
Advanced Counseling and Psychotherapy
For seasoned practitioners: a deeper exploration of psychotherapy across the major counseling schools — using experiments, emotional exercises, and dream work to help each participant develop their own personalized counseling framework. Subtitle: Experiments, Emotional Exercises & Dream Works.
Dates, fees, and venues for the next runs are scheduled per cohort. Register your interest — or request an in-house run for your school, agency, or organisation — and our training team will follow up with details and CPD documentation.
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