About Us
Roamers Academy was created with an important goal in mind: to create a space that truly understands the role of learning in a clinician’s journey.
Clinicians are asked to dedicate a certain amount of time during their careers to learning selected topics as part of their master’s or licensure requirements. However, continued learning and education play a much larger role in a clinician’s journey than simply maintaining licensure or earning a certificate. They are essential and irreplaceable parts of their clients’ care, clinicians’ own self-care, and also public health protection.
Providing clients with the care they truly need means becoming competent in theory, deeply understanding clients’ circumstances, identities, and culture, and approaching learning thoughtfully, with nuance, and with the utmost reflection possible. This, however, is not an easy task. Clinicians already work at a fast pace, with stacked caseloads and juggling countless tasks and documents waiting to be completed. On top of that, they must navigate hundreds of CE providers to find courses that are truly worth their time, ones that go beyond what they already know, offer up-to-date, practical insights they can apply in practice, and still meet their licensure requirements.
We understand how continuing education, while critical for client care and public health, can become overwhelming or frustrating for clinicians. We believe that when well-supported and well-designed, continuing education not only helps clinicians stay competent and effective but also supports their well-being, making them more resilient against burnout. Roamers Academy was founded with this inspiration: to truly understand clinicians’ needs and support their learning journey at every stage, so CE doesn’t become a burden but something they're excited to work on.
Our Story
Our founder, Shaysa Villa (she/they), created Roamers Therapy with the intention of offering care that felt thoughtful, grounded, and genuinely human. Over time, our practice grew into a thriving group practice who work every day to support our community through culturally responsive, evidence-based, trauma-informed, and LGBTQIA+ affirming care.
As our work evolved, so did our sense of responsibility. As a group of clinicians at different stages of our careers, we witnessed firsthand how critical it is to have high-quality continuing professional development to maintain competent, ethical care for our clients. But we also witnessed how challenging it is to find a provider who crafts courses with this important role of learning in mind, and how distressing that can be for clinicians. This vision led to the creation of Roamers Academy, where we offer continuing education that centers on clinicians’ needs.
When you attend our courses, you should expect learning that is grounded in evidence-based research and enriched with real-world clinical insight. Our programs are thoughtfully designed to respect the time and effort you put into your career as a clinician, offering focused, high-value content that translates directly into practice.
You should also expect each course to serve as a bridge between your sessions and your training, where meaningful between-session reflection, integration, and professional growth take place. We feel deeply committed to creating a learning experience that not only lifelessly abstracts information but can also be something that can touch on your clinical work in real life. We value the trust you place in us as part of your ongoing development, and we are dedicated to supporting you with depth, clinical relevance, and practical value at every step of your journey.
Our Work
Our Mission
Delivering clinician-centered continuing education that goes beyond compliance and fosters meaningful growth, accountability, and ethical practice to support client care, public health, and clinician well-being.
Our Vision
Creating a culture of professional development where clinicians are supported not only to stay compliant, but also to grow, sustain their well-being, and engage in learning as a means to enhance client care and protect public health.
Our Purpose
Our goal is to truly understand your needs, frustrations, and aspirations as a clinician, and to provide continuing education that goes beyond compliance. On our platform, we are dedicated to designing a learning experience that cultivates clinical insight and promotes ethical decision-making, while also being mindful of your time and effort so your growth can continue between client sessions.
Who Do We Serve?
We provide evidence-based, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive continuing education for psychotherapists at every stage of their careers, including licensed social workers, professional counselors, and marriage & family therapists. Our courses are designed to meet your licensing requirements while respecting the complexity of your work and the demands of your practice.
Our Approach
We take a clinician-centered approach and aim to understand your professional journey and the real challenges you face in practice. Our courses are carefully curated to combine research-driven knowledge and practical skills with ethical insights and opportunities for reflection.
Our Process
We dedicate our efforts to carefully understanding a clinician’s licensing requirements and professional needs, as well as individual learning goals that may emerge at different career stages. We carefully design each course to reflect a balanced combination of psychological theory, research, and accumulated clinical insights in our field.
Our Values
Trauma-Informed Care
We believe therapy is about creating safety, a space where, as a clinician, your clients shouldn’t have to brace themselves for judgment, misunderstanding, or harm. We maintain a trauma-informed care lens in our trainings, where we critically reflect on how past experiences shape people's trust, connections, and self-protection, and use that awareness to guide every part of the therapeutic process. In our trainings, we strive to cultivate an understanding that helps you, as a clinician, to recognize when trauma is present, even if it doesn’t show in obvious ways. We also aim to provide a learning experience that helps you cultivate compassion, curiosity, and cultural awareness, so that you can better support your clients.
Culturally Informed Care
We hope that, through learning with us, you will strive for culturally informed care in your practice, recognizing and welcoming diverse cultural backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences, and acknowledging the unique perspectives each client brings to the therapeutic space. We design our courses to help you cultivate cultural humility and awareness, and to offer ways to honor the values, histories, and traditions that shape each of your clients’ stories and invisible and visible identities. We always look for ways to ensure that, when our courses are used in practice, they help your clients feel that their dynamic identities are respected, understood, and empowered throughout their therapeutic journey.
LGBTQIA+ Affirming Approach
Evidence-Based Approach
When creating our courses, we conduct extensive literature reviews and use evidence-based approaches proven effective to improve mental health and promote well-being. We ensure that the information we share has been rigorously validated through scientific research and that the methods we utilize are both safe, effective, and clinically sound.
Client-Centered Practice
Our approach is guided by a deep respect for each client’s individuality, autonomy, and inner wisdom. Being client-centered means more than placing the client at the center of the therapeutic process; it means actively listening, honoring each person’s pace, and co-creating a space where their voice leads. We hope that after working with us, you will also develop your capacity to approach each individual with authenticity, warmth, and a non-judgmental presence. We hope that you will be more equipped to build relationships based on trust, safety, and collaboration, and recognize that growth occurs when clients feel seen, heard, and empowered in their therapeutic journey.
Feedback-Informed Treatment
We believe a culture of feedback is integral to a healthy therapeutic relationship. Feedback-informed treatment includes routine and formalized opportunities for you to voice what is going well and what needs improvement in your mental health care. In our courses, you will learn ways to integrate more feedback into your own work and practical ways to support this system with structure.
Ethics, Integrity & Honesty
As a practice, we are strongly committed to our profession’s ethical codes and HIPAA standards. We understand that an ethical foundation is integral for building safety and trust with our clients. When designing our courses, we incorporate learning objectives that strengthen your ethical decision-making capacity as a clinician.
Transparency in Care
Structured Care
We believe that therapy works best when there is a sense of rhythm, clarity, and direction. Without structure, sessions can remain on the surface, failing to lead to meaningful change. However, we see that this type of real-life support is often missing in most continuing education courses. In our courses, we try to help you understand how to work more with intention and continuity, and what steps you can take to create more structure in your own work. We believe that this way, you will start feeling more equipped to produce in-depth work.
Accountability
As clinicians, we should take full responsibility for the care we provide, continually evaluate our work, and be responsive to client and colleague feedback. By learning with us, you will also learn how to conduct reflective practice, quality improvement, and transparent outcome tracking.
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