Certified Veteran and Military Mental Health Professional

Military Culture: Develop a foundational understanding of the military structure and culture as well as its impact on Service member and Veteran healthcare. Understand the impact of transitioning from military status to civilian and the role providers play in assisting a smooth transition. Gain awareness of the resources accessible to Service members and Veterans and how this helps with building and maintaining resilience.

Military Deployment: Understand the psychological impact of deployments on the servicemember and their family members.

Betrayal Trauma: understand the impact of how basic military training creates a unique level of trust that gets violated through Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and the system is therefore impacted. Special consideration for individuals with previous sexual abuse trauma. Understand how MST influences other forms of trauma common within the Military. Increase awareness of the Bystander Intervention within the military.

Assessment and Diagnostics: gain knowledge regarding effective assessment processes with Service members and Veterans and how to take an effective military history. Learn how to employ various evidence-based gold standard tools used to inform the diagnostic process, increase awareness of the common disorders amongst veterans and military personnel. Understand the impact of significant disorders on their ability to serve and ability to access resources.

Most Common Issues Amongst Veterans and Military Services Members:
• Sleep Disorders: Understand how deployments, shift work, and other common stressors experienced by service members negatively impact sleep.
• Substance Abuse: types of substances, assessments, effective treatments, military and veteran resources and the importance of continuity of care and why this is in the best interest of the Service Member.
• PTSD: learn the various types common amongst veterans and service members: MST, Combat; being able to know how to diagnosis PTSD and how to treat using Cognitive Processing Therapy, Prolonged Exposure Therapy and EMDR as these are standard treatment modalities for PTSD.
• TBI: understand comorbidities between TBI and PTSD, understand how to refrain from attributing conditions to TBI and know when to refer out to a Neuropsychologist.
• Adjustment Disorder: understand how and why adjustment disorder is the number one diagnosis given to service members and how to treat it.

Treatment: trauma-based modalities including Unified Protocol, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Insomnia, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, etc. Suicide Prevention: Be aware of current suicide risk factors specific to service members. Understand correlations between suicide and common mental health disorders for servicemembers (i.e., PTSD). Be able to implement a safety plan or crisis response plan with a suicidal individual. Learn and implement Lethal Means Counseling and Motivational Interviewing techniques to increase firearm safety.

Chronic Pain: understand the contributing factors to chronic pain, and develop knowledge related to the treatment process for pain management.

Moral Injury: develop an understanding of what moral injury looks like amongst veterans and military service members and how to address it in the therapeutic process; understand the relationship between PTSD and Moral Injury.

Diversity: intersectionality between cultures and military cultures. Suitable education sources are approved continued education courses as documented by certificates of completion from the accredited training organization

Evergreen Certifications will accept courses that have been completed within 2 years of initial application for certification

To become CVMHP certified, you must complete all requirements outlined in the certification standards. If you have taken a training not listed as a pre-approved training, please send the course title, outline, learning objectives, and speaker information to info@evergreencertifications.com for review.

When your certification application is approved, you may use the credential “CVMHP”

Your digital badge is automatically in your online account when your certification is active.

Once your application is approved, your certification is granted for two years. To maintain certification, a renewal is required every two years.

Yes, to maintain certification, a renewal is required every two years.

To maintain your CVMHP certification, you need to renew your certification every two years. Renewal requires taking a minimum of 8 hours of continuing education focused on treating veterans and military personnel and their families, submitting your completion certificate(s), a copy of your professional license, and the renewal fee to Evergreen Certifications. Re-certification training hours need to have been taken in the time since you were initially certified or last renewed. Renewals are calculated from the date that your certification was issued.

If you allow your certification to lapse for more than 2 years, you are no longer eligible to renew your certification and instead can reapply for certification.

Evergreen Certifications will accept courses that have been completed within 2 years of initial application for certification.