Who is Eligible:
To be eligible for certification, the applicant must have a state or national license/credential and incorporate mindfulness in their professional work in an educational, healthcare, or clinical setting.
- Education Professionals
- Mental Health Professionals
- Case Managers
By applying for certification, the applicant agrees to adhere to Evergreen Certifications’ Professional Code of Ethics
Training Requirements:
A minimum of 12 hours of continuing education in specific mindfulness topics.
Pre-approved, 3rd party trainings that meet the training requirements for CMIP certification include:
- 2-Day Intensive Training: Mindfulness Certification Course by PESI – Certification Included!
- Mindfulness and Body-Based Approaches: Interventions for trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and more Online Course by PESI
- Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional (CMIP) Course: Evidence-based Interventions for Anxiety, Trauma & More by PESI – Certification Included!
- Mindfulness in Psychotherapy Certification: New Evidence-Based Interventions That Work by PESI – Certification Included!
Wondering if a course meets the requirements for CMIP certification? Submit a copy of or link to the course title, speaker, outline and learning objectives to info@evergreencertifications.com for review.
Please note that Evergreen Certifications does not offer continuing education, all training must be purchased directly through the accredited training organization. Training is not included in the certification fee.
Application Process:
For your initial 1-year certification, please complete the following steps.
- Complete a qualifying training
- Remit your initial application payment of 99.99 USD online
- Upload the following documents to your account:
- A copy of the candidate’s professional license
- Evidence of completion of qualifying training, in the form of a CE or completion certificate
Evergreen Certifications will certify applicants who meet the above requirements.
Please note: Certification does not imply endorsement of competency. 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.
Renewal Process:
To maintain CMIP certification, a renewal is required. After your initial 1-year certification, you have the option to renew for 1, 2 or 3 years. A 1-year renewal requires 6 clock hours of mindfulness and/or meditation-focused training since you were last certified; a 2-year renewal requires 12 clock hours, and a 3-year renewal requires 18 hours.
Sample CMIP renewal trainings include:
- The Advanced Mindfulness Toolbox for Rewiring the Brain by PESI
- Mastering Mindfulness: Applying Powerful Practices to Help with Anxiety, Trauma, Depression and More by PESI
- 15 Must-Have Mindfulness Techniques for Clinicians: Skills to Transform Your Treatment Plans for Stress, Depression, Anxiety, Anger, Trauma, Guilt and Shame by PESI
- 100 Brain-Changing Mindfulness Techniques to Integrate Into Your Clinical Practice by PESI
Renewal CE content cannot be the same content used for prior renewal or initial certification
Renewal Process
- Complete a qualifying training
- Upload the following documents to your account:
- A copy of the candidate’s professional license
- Evidence of completion of qualifying training, in the form of a CE or completion certificate
- Remit your CMIP renewal fee online
- $49.99 for a 1-year renewal
- $79.99 for a 2-year renewal
- $99.99 for a 3-year renewal
Renewal training hours need to have been taken in the time since you were certified or last recertified.
Renewals are calculated from the date that your certification was issued. If you allow your certification to lapse for more than 3 years, you are no longer eligible to renew your certification and instead can reapply for certification.
Debra Alvis - PhD
Debra Alvis, PhD is a licensed psychologist, private practitioner, and yoga therapist with over twenty-five years of clinical experience in supporting clients’ recovery from shame, trauma, anxiety, depression, and relational concerns. She retired as faculty from the University of Georgia where she developed and led the Mind/Body Program, created a clinician training program integrating contemplative approaches into psychotherapy, and taught health psychology graduate students to apply neuroscientific and somatic approaches.
Debra’s interest in the treatment of shame began in the early 1990’s while exploring self-psychology and neuroanatomy. Her curiosity about how psychotherapeutic interventions could best engage the brain’s capacity to grow and change led her to study with leading experts Dan Siegel, Rick Hanson, and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She combined this neuroscientific/somatic foundation with attachment, contemplative, and cognitive approaches. She discovered that wedding brain-based principals and body-oriented approaches with traditional psychotherapeutic orientations helped clients to recover more quickly from shame. As the shame lessened, clients’ co-morbid anxiety, depression, and addictions resolved more easefully. Debra has refined the application of her integrative shame treatment model through her work in private practice and as a clinical supervisor, educator, and consultant.
Terry Fralich - LCPC
Terry Fralich, LCPC, is a co-founder of the Mindfulness Retreat Center of Maine and former adjunct faculty member of the University of Southern Maine Graduate School. He has led more than 400 seminars, trainings and retreats both nationally and internationally. His expertise consists of mindfulness, neuroscience, CBT brain change, emotional intelligence, stress reduction, meditation and the treatment of anxiety and depression. He has been teaching transformative mindfulness skills and practices for 20 years and has pursed his own practice of mindfulness and meditation for 40 years. Terry studied extensively with his Holiness the Dalai Lama for 25 years and with some of the American pioneers of mindfulness. He is the author of Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A 7-Step Guide to Mindfulness and The Five Core Skills of Mindfulness: A Direct Path to More Confidence, Joy and Love.
Elana Rosenbaum - MS, LICSW
Elana Rosenbaum, MS, LICSW, has been integrating mindfulness with psychotherapy for over 30 years. She is a leader in the clinical application of mindfulness meditation to cancer care and is a pioneering teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the Center for Mindfulness, the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She has authored, Here for Now: Living Well with Cancer through Mindfulness and Being Well (even when you’re sick): Mindfulness Practices for People Living with Cancer and Other Serious Illness. Elana has a private practice in psychotherapy in Worcester, Massachusetts and is a sought-after mindfulness coach, teacher, speaker, Course leader and research consultant. She has been featured in “Chronicle” on CBS and mentioned in many magazine articles including Yoga Journal, Health, Coping, and the PBS audio series, “Walking through the Storm”. She is currently working on her third book, a workbook of mindfulness exercises for optimal living.
Pavel Somov - PhD
Pavel Somov, PhD is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Pittsburgh, PA. He holds a PhD in Counseling Psychology from SUNY Buffalo, with 20+ years of clinical experience and is the author of numerous books on self-help 7 of which are on mindfulness-based applications to a variety of psychological issues.
Dr. Somov is on the Advisory Board for The Mindfulness Project (London, UK). Over the years, Dr. Somov has conducted a variety of continued education workshops domestically and internationally on the topics of shame and guilt and self-criticism, on mindful eating, on perfectionism, on anger management, and on mindfulness applications for worry, dysthymia, insomnia and substance use. His work has been discussed in a variety of radio interviews (Martha Stewart's Radio/Whole Living, Fully Alive!, etc.) and mentioned in a variety of print publications (Martha Stewart'sBody + Soul Magazine, Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine).
Dr. Somov offers an original, mindfulness-based approach to working with perfectionism, self-criticalness, and negative self-view/self-esteem issues. A recent, randomized study—published by Mindfulness Journal—shows that Somov’s approach (described in his 2010 book Present Perfect) is effective as a standalone intervention. The study found that those who had read Present Perfect experienced a statistically significant reduction of self-criticalness, a result that was still maintained at a six weeks follow-up (Wimberley, Mintz, & Suh, Mindfulness, Nov. 2015).