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Boundaries Aren't Just for Clients: Clinical Connection Without Crossing Therapeutic Lines

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December 19th 1:00-4:00pm EST, conducted online via Zoom

Boundary setting is one of our most important life skills and is a therapeutic and professional practice that is foundational to ethical and compassionate care for our clients...and ourselves. Whether these boundaries are regarding clinical fees, interaction during and contact between sessions, an unexpected "small" gift offering with potentially large implications, or cancellations during the holidays; we are constantly navigating the interplay between our personal and professional ethics, needs and interests as business owners, and doing no harm to clients, ourselves and OUR businesses/brands. Through these interactions with clients/potential clients and other audiences, our website marketing to our discharge sessions-it is important that we are thoughtful, clear and grounded. However, as we know, psychotherapists are notoriously known for violating our own boundaries by putting perceived client needs before our own, leading to burnout fairly early in the careers we have worked so hard to cultivate.

Dr. Ayanna Abrams, licensed clinical psychologist and assertive communication expert, is pleased to facilitate a much-needed interactive space for healers to attune to our own practice of supporting ourselves without sacrificing the safety of the therapeutic alliance. We will explore useful language, build courage together and address the unique supports that we need to create and maintain a healthy and responsive boundary practice that not only benefits us, but enhances our ability to provide affirmative and sustainable care to our communities.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define (3) types of boundaries and (6) areas of functioning that boundaries play a role in and how this impacts the therapeutic relationship.

  • Identify benefits and barriers to boundary implementation and reinforcement for psychotherapists in various clinical settings.

  • Identify personal and professional needs and biases that contribute to common boundary violations in clinical treatment.

  • Demonstrate effective use of therapeutic confrontation interventions to repair therapeutic alliance rupture after boundary violations.

  • Describe (2) ways to repair the therapeutic alliance when boundaries have been breached by psychotherapist or by client.

  • Create a professional boundary action plan (B.A.P.) for addressing boundary dilemmas with specific clients.

Cultivating Healers seeks to provide educational and engaging CEUs with liberatory information, pop-quizzes, and case studies to ensure your learning.

This training is eligible for 3 Continuing Education Credits for NBCC Counselors & NY LMHCs, LCSWs, and LMSWs. Cultivating Healers is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.

This training meets New York’s Boundary CEU Requirement for Mental Health Counselors, Psychologists, and Social workers.

Want to seek your company’s financial support? Check out our request template to make the ask, and sign up using the organizational rate.

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December 19th 1:00-4:00pm EST, conducted online via Zoom

Boundary setting is one of our most important life skills and is a therapeutic and professional practice that is foundational to ethical and compassionate care for our clients...and ourselves. Whether these boundaries are regarding clinical fees, interaction during and contact between sessions, an unexpected "small" gift offering with potentially large implications, or cancellations during the holidays; we are constantly navigating the interplay between our personal and professional ethics, needs and interests as business owners, and doing no harm to clients, ourselves and OUR businesses/brands. Through these interactions with clients/potential clients and other audiences, our website marketing to our discharge sessions-it is important that we are thoughtful, clear and grounded. However, as we know, psychotherapists are notoriously known for violating our own boundaries by putting perceived client needs before our own, leading to burnout fairly early in the careers we have worked so hard to cultivate.

Dr. Ayanna Abrams, licensed clinical psychologist and assertive communication expert, is pleased to facilitate a much-needed interactive space for healers to attune to our own practice of supporting ourselves without sacrificing the safety of the therapeutic alliance. We will explore useful language, build courage together and address the unique supports that we need to create and maintain a healthy and responsive boundary practice that not only benefits us, but enhances our ability to provide affirmative and sustainable care to our communities.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define (3) types of boundaries and (6) areas of functioning that boundaries play a role in and how this impacts the therapeutic relationship.

  • Identify benefits and barriers to boundary implementation and reinforcement for psychotherapists in various clinical settings.

  • Identify personal and professional needs and biases that contribute to common boundary violations in clinical treatment.

  • Demonstrate effective use of therapeutic confrontation interventions to repair therapeutic alliance rupture after boundary violations.

  • Describe (2) ways to repair the therapeutic alliance when boundaries have been breached by psychotherapist or by client.

  • Create a professional boundary action plan (B.A.P.) for addressing boundary dilemmas with specific clients.

Cultivating Healers seeks to provide educational and engaging CEUs with liberatory information, pop-quizzes, and case studies to ensure your learning.

This training is eligible for 3 Continuing Education Credits for NBCC Counselors & NY LMHCs, LCSWs, and LMSWs. Cultivating Healers is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.

This training meets New York’s Boundary CEU Requirement for Mental Health Counselors, Psychologists, and Social workers.

Want to seek your company’s financial support? Check out our request template to make the ask, and sign up using the organizational rate.

  • Dr. Ayanna Abrams is a licensed clinical psychologist, CEO/Founder of Ascension Behavioral Health and co-founder of Not So Strong, an initiative to improve the mental health and relationship functioning of Black women. Her specialties include racism based trauma, mood disorder treatment, burnout prevention and helping people create and recreate healthy romantic, friendship, career and familial relationships. She has extensive clinical and research experience working with Black people across the Diaspora and has been featured as a speaker or contributing writer in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Essence, Therapy for Black Girls and Silence the Shame. She is also a contributing author to the books, Emotionally Focused Therapy for African American Couples: Love Heals and the Handbook on Counseling African American Women: Psychological Symptoms, Treatments, and Case Studies. She currently sits on the board of Black Girls Smile, Inc. and Silence the Shame non-profit organizations.

  • Due to the nature of this product, all sales are final and we are unable to offer refunds. If you are no longer able to attend a group, email us at info@kenyacrawford.com and we can transfer your confirmation to the following group.

  • Kenya Crawford, LMHC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0269. Kenya Crawford, LMHC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0736.

    Kenya Crawford, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7470.

  • Barnett, J. E., & Hynes, K. C. (July, 2015). Boundaries and multiple relationships in psychotherapy: Recommendations for ethical practice. [Web article]. Retrieved from http://www.societyforpsychotherapy.org/boundaries-and-multiple-relationships-in-psychotherapy-recommendations-for-ethical-practice

    Barnett, Jeffrey & Lazarus, Arnold & Vasquez, Melba & Moorehead-Slaughter, Olivia & Johnson, W.. (2007). Boundary Issues and Multiple Relationships: Fantasy and Reality. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. 38. 401-410. 10.1037/0735-7028.38.4.401.

    Black, S. C. (2017). To cross or not to cross: Ethical boundaries in psychological practice. JANZSSA: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association, 25(1), 1–10.

    Eppel, A., Charlesbois, J., McKim, B. “https://journalofpsychiatryreform.com/2020/04/29/out-of-the-frame-boundaries-in-online-psychotherapy/”

    Gutheil TG, Gabbard GO. The concept of boundaries in clinical practice: theoretical and risk-management dimensions. Am J Psychiatry. 1993 Feb;150(2):188-96. doi: 10.1176/ajp.150.2.188. PMID: 8422069.

    Hook J, Devereux D. Boundary violations in therapy: the patient’s experience of harm. BJPsych Advances. 2018;24(6):366-373. doi:10.1192/bja.2018.26

    Smith, D., & Fitzpatrick, M. (1995). Patient-therapist boundary issues: An integrative review of theory and research. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 26(5), 499-506.

    Wu, Katherine S. H., "Nonsexual Boundary Crossings in Psychotherapy: Factors in Ethical DecisionMaking" (2020). Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects. 1723. https://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/1723

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