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Welcome to Communication Skills

The Online Course that Works for You:
  • Meet Court Requirements, or Use for Personal Growth
  • Court Approved/Over 60,000 Certificates Awarded since 2014
  • Start Right Away — Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • Instant Online Certificate (or have one mailed to you)
$4.99 One-Time Registration Fee to get started.
Pay for certificate upon completion.

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  • $4.99 One-Time Registration Fee.
  • Hard-copy certificate shipping fee starting at $5 USD.
  • Certificate Fees as shown below.
Instant downloadable certificate available upon payment.
4 Hour
Certificate
$17
8 Hour
Certificate
$33
12 Hour
Certificate
$53
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Completing your course: How long will it take?
Our course is organized into easy-to-digest lessons. Each lesson takes approximately one hour to complete. Students work at different speeds, so you can go at your own pace in our courses.

If you are mandated to take weekly classes, please note that One Hour equals One Week. (This information appears on all certificates.)

Not sure if you can make it work?
Get in touch and we’ll help you assess your situation.

Communication Skills

In this course, you will learn...

  • How to skillfully and assertively communicate
  • How to improve your relationships with friends, family members, and coworkers.
  • How to develop healthy listening skills and resolve conflicts.
The Steps to Success

What to Expect: Start to Finish

1. Register: It’s Your $4.99 All-Access Pass
Get unlimited online access to all of our courses. The courses are open to you—pay only for certificates of completion.
2. Select Your Course—Start When You’re Ready!
Kick things off and absorb our enriching course content. You’ll be amazed by what you learn.
3. Make Progress at Your Own Pace!
Save your progress. Resume when you’re ready. Use any web-enabled device, any time.
4. Take Care of Business
Finish the course, pay for your certificate, and download it instantly — if required, get a hard copy mailed to you starting at $5 USD.
Make The Confident Choice

Meeting Court Requirements

Here to satisfy a court requirement? Open Path is the right choice. Our courses have been accepted in courts of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and more.
Navigate the Court Approval Process
  1. Confirm with the court how many hours or weeks of the course you are expected to complete.
  2. Once you register with Open Path, provide your attorney, probation officer, judge, or other court official with the enrollment letter for the course.
  3. Ask them to approve the course and file the enrollment letter in your court file.
  4. Be sure to finish the course before your court date to demonstrate completion. If you need a hard copy of the certificate mailed to you, complete the course in advance to allow time for shipping. (If you don’t need a hard copy, you will immediately be able to download a digital certificate upon payment.)

The Open Path Difference

5 YEARS. 60,000+ CERTIFICATES.
Experience You Can Count On
Nearly thirty thousand students have successfully completed an Open Path Social and Emotional Wellness Course.
COMMITTED TO QUALITY.
93% ‘Would Recommend’
Tens of thousands of students report that they would recommend our coursework to friends, family or colleagues.
WHAT YOU NEED, WHEN YOU NEED IT.
97% Satisfaction Rate
Our students overwhelmingly report that they feel good about their Open Path learning experience.
We Fit Your Schedule
Start a lesson on your phone during your lunch break. Pick it back up on your laptop at home.
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We’re a 501(c)3 not for profit organization whose central goal is improving the lives of others.
Course available 24/7 - Start anytime!

Testimonials

The course material was great. I found it useful and frequently utilized and reflected on the course material during the day. The bottom line is the course clearly helped me, genuinely helped me, with the emotional struggles I had been experiencing. My supervisor and one of the employees I supervised myself both commented to me without prompting that I was dealing with work issues in a more balanced, open-minded manner.

— Shawn

I am very pleased with the courses you offer. The Anger Management course has literally changed my life for the better. I now know how to control my inner and outer anger and think before I act or speak. Thank you for having these courses to follow and revisit whenever I need a refresher.

— Angela

I never write reviews, but I feel obligated to because of how much Open Path's Anger Management course has helped me to understand myself. I also never use the word "blessing," but I feel that the word pretty much describes what OP has done by making these resources available at such a low cost. I continue to use the tips I've learned every day and I try to help others with when I can. It has changed my life and my relationships.

— George
Expand Your Horizons

Open Up a World of Mental Health Education

These and 14 others are included for no extra cost with your $4.99 one-time registration fee. Continue learning - only pay if you need a certificate.
Financial Wellness
Mindfulness Meditation
Anxiety & Stress Reduction
Communication Skills
Relationships 101
Our dedicated staff is here to support you, every step of the way.
PROFESSIONALS WHO CARE

Course Quality Standards

Our programs are based on our experience treating the issues that surround mental health. Courses are developed along with materials from The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association.

Certificate Acceptance Guaranteed

We are accepted by judges, probation officers, and employers across the United States. If you have any trouble getting our program approved for your specific needs, you can contact us and we will be happy to help you resolve the situation.
High-quality content. Court-ready certificates. We make it easy.
Meet Our Course Creators
Paul Fugelsang, MA, LPC
Naropa University
Dr. Karen Rippy, PhD, LMFT
Sierra and Claremont Graduate University
Eva Albert, MA
Appalachian State University
Dr. Rustan Adcock, MD
Duke University / Dartmouth Medical School
Frequently Asked Questions

Start today by registering. Your registration will immediately direct you to our payment gateway. For a one-time payment of $4.99 you will gain access to all of our courses. This will also give you access to a Proof of Enrollment letter and all of our courses.

Each lesson in a course is equivalent to one hour or one week of class. So if you need 52 hours of Anger Management, you would take all 52 lessons of that course. If you are not sure how many hours or weeks were mandated by your court, please contact your attorney, probation officer, or court representative to learn this information.

We keep the registration fee low so that as many people as possible can afford to take one or more of our online wellness courses. Open Path is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to providing access to affordable mental health care and education. You can learn more about our mission and our affordable psychotherapy program at openpathcollective.org/about.

Our course readings, assignments, and quizzes are offered for a one-time payment of $4.99. If you need a Certificate of Completion to prove that you have taken any one of the courses for a judge, probation officer, employer, or other third party, you will be required to make an additional payment. Certificate pricing can be found on the individual course pages. Hard copy certificates are also subject to a shipping & handling fee.

If it has been court ordered, or you are otherwise required to take one of our courses, you will most likely be required to prove your enrollment. After creating an account for a one-time payment of $4.99, we will provide you with access to a letter that can be either emailed or printed, and given to anyone requiring proof of your enrollment. You can download or email the enrollment letter from individual course pages.

If you need proof of completion, you have the option of purchasing a completion certificate after finishing the required number of class modules.

Our courses are entirely online. You may start, and stop, whenever you would like, and work at your own pace. There are no scheduled meetings, and you won’t check in with a supervisor, but we truly believe that you get out what you put in. As such, we highly recommend working with a trained therapist as you work through your course. Discover more information about working with a therapist in our network.

Yes, in almost all cases our program will meet court requirements. We’ve been accepted by judges, employers, and probation officers throughout the United States. Once you have registered for $4.99, you can print a Proof of Enrollment letter to show to your probation officer, judge, or other authority to ensure that our program is acceptable. If our program will not be accepted by the court in question, we can refund the $4.99 registration fee.

We offer a 30-day money back guarantee for the registration fee. If you are not satisfied with the online courses for any reason during the initial 30 days of using our site, we can issue a full refund of your $4.99 registration fee. We only offer refunds on certificates of completion in the case that the court did not accept the coursework. In order to process the refund, a judge, attorney, probation officer or other judicial authority will need to contact Open Path directly in order to confirm that the course certificate was not accepted in court.

Once you purchase your certificate and pay for shipping and handling, it can take up to 2 business days for us to ship your certificate. Please be sure to complete your course and purchase your certificate in advance of the date you require the certificate for court.

No, you cannot share your account with another person. Each account can only be used by one student.

Open Path does not offer progress reports. If you need to show progress in the course, you can purchase a certificate for the number of hours that you have completed thus far. After completion of the full course, you can request a refund for the lower-level certificate.