Who Are We?

The Spiritual Competency Academy is committed to cultivating a safe and inclusive learning environment for mental health professionals to increase their spiritual competency and promote emotional wellbeing, connection to their spirituality, and appreciation for the diversity of spiritual beliefs and practices. We strive to nurture a community of professionals who are equipped to bring greater awareness and healing to their own lives and the world.

As a spiritually competent mental health professional, you can:

  • Build a Stronger Therapeutic Alliance with Your Patients

    This alliance is based on showing respect toward your clients’ deeply held beliefs and values. This quality is all the more important in light of the pandemic.

  • Improve Your Practice

    SCA's courses allow you new insights and techniques when working with the realm of spirituality and religion in your therapy practice.

  • Grow Your Client Base

    Expertise in spiritual competency is a key to more successful outcomes that can lead to more referrals.

  • Conduct Spiritual Assessments with Your Clients

    These groundbreaking ethically-sensitive spiritual assessments will address clients' spiritual strengths, beliefs, and problems.

  • Discuss Contemporary and Alternative Treatment Outcomes

    You will be able to have evidence-based and ethically-sensitive conversations with clients about how to improve their recovery and treatment outcomes.

  • Share Your Knowledge

    Access our free online resources including guided practices by leading mental health experts.

  • Understand Your Clients More Deeply

    Harness your clients’ religious and spiritual strengths.

  • Earn CE Credits

    SCA is approved by the American Psychological Association, California Board of Registered Nursing and other boards.

Spirituality 101
for Mental Health Professionals

  • Spiritual Competency: Introduction and Overview

    4 CE Credit Course


    Spirituality and religion are important components of multicultural competency equivalent in importance to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. This course summarizes the need to include religious and spiritual competencies in healthcare professional training. It also reviews the research conducted by the authors to establish a set of religious and spiritual competencies (attitudes, knowledge, and skills) that all healthcare professionals should be trained in and utilize with clients.

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  • An Evidence‑Based, Ethically-Sensitive and Strength‑Based Approach to Spiritual Assessment

    4 CE Credit Course


    This course trains you in the foundation of spiritual competency and how to conduct a spiritual assessment with clients. This will enable you to elicit information for treatment planning and build a stronger therapeutic alliance.

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SCA courses provide approved CE and CME credits for psychologists, physicians, social workers, counselors, nurses, chiropractors, occupational therapists, and coaches 
through the following accreditation agencies:

✦American Psychological Association                             ✦California Board of Behavioral Sciences 

✦California Board of Registered Nursing                        ✦The California Board of Chiropractic Examiners

✦The California Board of Occupational Therapy           ✦The National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching 


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Testimonials

"The information and guidance in Dr. Lukoff's courses will soon be, if not already, mandatory for all health care professionals who choose to remain current and literate in their fields."

-Jeanne Achterberg, Ph.D. , Former Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School

"An excellent job of guiding people through the mental health resources."

-John Suler, Ph.D , Department of Psychology, Rider University Webmaster: Psychology of Cyberspace

"I am so excited to know that I am not the only one seeing the importance of this concept and how it would help to broaden the area of wellness and emphasis on the mind, body, and spirit/psyche/soul."

"This course has helped me to see the progression of the relationship between spiritual and religion. The section on the history of religion and spirituality was fascinating."

"The information presented here will help me demonstrate to my interdisciplinary colleagues that spirituality is foundational to human care...or rather is the foundation of human/holistic care."


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