What an NIBM Credential Recognizes
- ✓Continuing professional development
- ✓Specialized education, training, and defined assessment or competency requirements
- ✓Professional skill enhancement
- ✓Commitment to ethical and evidence-informed practice
What an NIBM Credential Does Not Mean
- —A state, federal, or other governmental professional license
- —Expanded legal scope of practice
- —Authorization to provide services for which you are not qualified
- —Guaranteed employment, advancement, or licensure
- —Guaranteed acceptance by an employer, licensing board, educational institution, insurer, or other organization
NIBM CERTIFICATIONS
Build deeper knowledge.
Strengthen your practice.
Sustain your professional impact.
NIBM provides private professional certifications and durable-skill development designed to enhance the knowledge, resilience, and effectiveness of behavioral health and helping professionals.
NIBM credentials support professional development and skill enhancement. They do not constitute governmental licensure or independently expand a participant’s legal scope of practice.
KNOWLEDGE
RESILIENCE
ETHICAL PRACTICE
GREATER IMPACT
TWO PATHS FOR PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
Professional Certifications
and Durable Skills
NIBM offers two complementary pathways to support your professional development, skill enhancement, and long-term impact in the people and communities you serve.
Professional
Certifications
More comprehensive specialty credentials recognizing defined education, assessment, and competency requirements.
Durable Skills
Focused professional-development credentials emphasizing transferable capabilities that strengthen effectiveness across roles and settings.
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
Specialized Knowledge. Greater Impact.
NIBM professional certifications are designed to strengthen your knowledge, enhance practice, and support sustainable, ethical, and trauma-informed care across diverse professional settings.
Certified Professional Resilience Specialist
(c-PRS)
Develop the knowledge and skills to support professional resilience, occupational well-being, and sustainable helping careers.
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Certified Trauma-Informed Care Specialist
(c-TICS)
Build understanding and practical application of trauma-informed principles within your professional role.
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Compassion Fatigue and Burnout Prevention Specialist (CFPS)
Understand compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress, and learn evidence-informed prevention and sustainability strategies.
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Certified Trauma Recovery Specialist
Develop knowledge of trauma and recovery, trauma-informed support, and recovery-oriented principles within appropriate professional boundaries.
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DURABLE SKILLS
Foundational Capabilities for Lasting Impact
NIBM durable-skill credentials focus on essential, transferable capabilities that strengthen professional effectiveness across roles, settings, and stages of a helping career.
Essential Employability Skills (EES)
Strengthen the communication, professionalism, adaptability, teamwork, and workplace-readiness skills that support effectiveness across professional settings.
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Trauma-Informed (TI)
Develop practical understanding of trauma-informed principles, including safety, trust, collaboration, empowerment, and sensitivity to the impact of trauma.
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Mindfulness-Informed (MI)
Build practical skills in present-moment awareness, attention, emotional regulation, and intentional responding within appropriate professional roles.
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Social and Emotional Intelligence (SEI)
Strengthen self-awareness, emotional regulation, empathy, communication, and interpersonal effectiveness across professional relationships and settings.
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PUBLIC VERIFICATION
Every Approved Certification Includes Public Credential Verification.
As a condition of certification, NIBM may list the following information in our public verification directory:
Name
Credential
Certification Date
Expiration/Renewal Date
Current Status
WHO THESE PROGRAMS ARE FOR
Designed for Professionals Who Help People Thrive
NIBM professional certifications and durable-skill credentials are designed for individuals whose work involves supporting people, strengthening communities, improving well-being, or helping others navigate change, challenge, and growth.
Behavioral health professionals
Healthcare professionals
Human-service professionals
Educators and student-support professionals
First responders
Caregivers
Other helping professionals
These credentials are intended to support professional development and skill enhancement within a participant’s existing role and scope of practice.