Certification
Mental Freedom® Certification (MFC)
A professional pathway that equips you to facilitate the Mental Freedom® process with clients—clearly, ethically, and with a repeatable structure grounded in Choice Theory® Psychology.
Prerequisite (required):You can only enroll in Mental Freedom® Certification after you’ve completed the 6-sessionMental Freedom® Experience (MFX). This ensures you understand the process from the inside out before guiding others.
For professionals who want a psychoeducational approach that builds mental and emotional resilience.
Course snapshot
- Course length
- 32 hours
- Program duration
- ~6–9 months
- Class size
- Under 12
- Format
- 100% Virtual (Zoom)
Continuing Education:32 hours of CE credit for Board Certified Coaches (BCCs) and Illinois counselors/social workers.
Contribute to a greater cause:10% of certification payments support a scholarship fund for Mental Freedom® Experiences.
Why become certified in Mental Freedom®?
Mental Freedom® Certification helps you integrate a concise, structured process into your professional work. It supports deeper client outcomes and a clearer pathway for change.
Transform client lives
Guide clients through principles that foster independence, resilience, and mental strength.
Empower your practice
Incorporate six core principles into sessions—often delivering lasting results in shorter timelines.
Expand your reach
Add a certification that complements your current expertise and strengthens your professional toolkit.
Make a greater impact
Join a growing community of practitioners helping people free themselves from past burdens and future fears.
Boost referrals
Clear results lead to client confidence—often the best driver of word-of-mouth growth.
The MFC Journey: what to expect
A structured sequence designed to ensure competence, confidence, and ethical application.
Step 1
Complete the Mental Freedom® Experience (MFX)
You personally experience the 6-session process first. This prerequisite is required before certification.
Step 2
Six in-depth group training sessions
Learn how to facilitate the Mental Freedom® process with clients and lead them through the principles.
Step 3
Supervised first facilitation
Facilitate your first MFX with clients under Kim Olver’s supervision to ensure readiness and quality.
Step 4
Certification awarded
Receive your Mental Freedom® Certification, including a digital badge and certificate for your practice.
Who should enroll?
MFC is designed for professionals looking to elevate their impact—counselors, coaches, educators, social workers, and religious or spiritual leaders. If you’re ready to provide clients with tools to thrive in a structured process, MFC is for you.
Mental Freedom Certified (MFC) Values
Mental Freedom Certified professionals are part of a growing community committed to helping people eliminate unnecessary suffering, improve their most important relationships, and strengthen resilience—especially during life's challenges.
Mental Freedom is not about fixing broken people. It is about providing actionable, practical frameworks that help individuals regain perspective, agency, and choice—particularly when experiencing moments of stress, conflict, or uncertainty.
What Guides Our Work
Responsibility over Blame
We teach and model personal responsibility for thoughts, language, and behavior—without shame, judgment, or victimizing narratives.
Respect and Compassion
We approach every individual with respect and curiosity, based on the belief that people are doing the best they can with the awareness and tools they currently have.
Immediate and Practical Application
We value common sense, usable concepts that people can apply immediately to real-life situations, rather than complex or abstract theory.
Integrity and Alignment
Mental Freedom Certified professionals strive to live the principles they teach. Staying current, reflective, and aligned with the work is part of what it means to responsibly represent Mental Freedom.
Growth as a Lifelong Practice
Learning doesn't end with certification. We value reflection, self-evaluation, feedback, and ongoing personal and professional growth.
Connection and Community
Mental Freedom is strengthened and supported through community. MFCs are part of a supportive network of professionals who share ideas, experiences, and a common purpose.
What It Means to Be Mental Freedom Certified
Being an MFC means more than completing training. It means applying Mental Freedom principles thoughtfully, ethically, and consistently in one's work and life.
MFCs may identify as counselors, coaches, educators, or facilitators, but all share the same foundation and commitment to the values that guide Mental Freedom.
Together, Mental Freedom Certified professionals help ensure that the work stays relevant, accessible, and impactful for people who want greater emotional balance, resilience, and mental freedom.
About the course
- 32 hours total • instructor-led • 100% virtual on Zoom
- Theoretical underpinnings: Choice Theory Psychology (William Glasser, M.D.)
- Under 12 participants for meaningful interaction and supervision
- CE credit: 32 hours for BCCs and Illinois counselors/social workers
Kim Olver, LCPC, NCC, BCC
Award-winning author, Choice Theory® expert, and creator of Mental Freedom®. Kim’s mission is to eradicate self-created misery by teaching principles that help people break free from emotional prisons—showing they’ve held the key all along.
Author of Secrets of Happy Couples and Choosing Me Now, co-author of Leveraging Diversity at Work, and author of Mental Freedom (published July 2024).
2025/2026 Schedule
Times shown are Central. Space is limited.
Group 1
9–11 am or 7–9 pm Central
- December 9
- December 16
- January 6, 2026
- January 20
- January 27
- February 3
Group 2
10 am – 12 pm Central
- September 7
- September 21
- September 28
- October 12
- October 19
- November 2
Not eligible yet?
If you haven’t completed the Mental Freedom® Experience (MFX), start there first. It’s required before you can begin certification.
What people are saying
I can confidently say this certification is one of the most transformative professional experiences I've ever undertaken. Kim's framework doesn't just teach theory—it equips you with a practical, compassionate, and deeply empowering methodology to guide others break free from emotional suffering and reclaim their inner peace. The training itself is rigorous yet deeply human. Kim models the very principles she teaches—respect, autonomy, and unconditional positive regard.
I have had the blessing of working with Kim for years. Our paths have crossed as Military Life Consultants and colleagues. Primarily Kim has been a mentor for me in the professional arena as a clinician and the personal arena as a mother of sons. I have taken her coaching certification course, mental freedom course and connected her to the Army Reserve for Diversity Training. She is a wealth of knowledge and a great example of living in Mental Freedom!
I learned how to guide clients through a process that helps them separate pain from suffering, challenge limiting beliefs, and take ownership of their behaviour and experience. It's not about fixing people—it's about navigating them to access the freedom that's already within them. I have used Choice Theory and Reality Therapy for years in my private practice. Now with the Mental Freedom coaching this is the bow that ties it all together. I'm excited to bring this dynamic to my clients.