Where Boundaries End and Ethics Begin: Effective Boundary Setting to Prevent Boundary Crossings and Violations
Training Details
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Date: Friday, September 11, 2026
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Location: Virtual/Zoom
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Time: 10:00 AM–1:00 PM ET
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Continuing Education: 3 CEUs approved for Pennsylvania and New York LSWs, LCSWs, LPCs, and LMFTs
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Ethics Requirement: This training satisfies the ethics continuing education requirement.
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CEU Requirements: To receive continuing education credit, participants must attend the training and complete both the post-test and training evaluation. A link will be emailed immediately following the session. Both must be submitted within seven business days to receive a CE certificate.
Overview
This course explores the ethical principles and boundary practices that protect clients, professionals, and organizations across helping professions. Participants will examine the foundations of healthy boundaries and the personal, cognitive, emotional, and environmental barriers that may interfere with establishing and maintaining them.
Through practical examples and guided reflection, participants will learn a step-by-step framework for identifying personal and professional boundaries, recognizing limiting beliefs, communicating expectations clearly, and implementing appropriate consequences when boundaries are repeatedly violated.
The training will also address common workplace boundary challenges involving workload management, communication, technology use, relationships with colleagues and supervisors, and work-life balance.
What You’ll Learn
- Strengthen ethical decision-making related to professional boundaries
- Distinguish healthy boundary crossings from unethical boundary violations
- Create and communicate boundaries that support well-being and effective practice
- Recognize beliefs and communication patterns that interfere with boundary setting
- Apply a six-step process for establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries
- Develop appropriate consequences for repeated boundary violations
- Address workplace boundaries involving workload, technology, communication, and professional relationships
- Reduce burnout and strengthen work-life balance
Target Audience
- Social workers
- Psychologists
- Mental health professionals
- Healthcare professionals
- Clinical supervisors
- Behavioral health providers
- Other helping professionals
About the Facilitator
Jessica is also the founder of Social Work Consulting and Counseling, LLC, where she provides psychotherapy, clinical supervision, organizational consulting, and continuing education.
Her goal as an educator is not to tell professionals what to think, but to teach them how to critically evaluate multiple perspectives, use evidence-based decision-making, tolerate uncertainty, and make ethical decisions in complex situations.
Jessica has presented to universities, healthcare systems, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and community groups on topics including trauma, anxiety, cognitive behavioral therapy, ethics, clinical supervision, burnout, diversity, and workplace wellness.
She is known for translating complex psychological concepts into engaging, practical, and culturally responsive learning experiences that equip professionals with strategies they can immediately apply.
Jessica’s mission is to H.E.L.P.—Heal, Enlighten, Liberate, and Plan—by empowering individuals and organizations to create meaningful, lasting change.
Register
Reserve your spot today and strengthen your ability to establish clear, ethical, and sustainable boundaries in clinical and professional settings. Participants will leave with practical tools they can immediately apply to protect client welfare, reduce burnout, and navigate complex boundary challenges with greater confidence.