Boundaries Aren't Just for Clients: Clinical Connection Without Crossing Therapeutic Lines
December 6, 1:00-3:00pm EST, conducted online via Zoom
Boundary setting is one of our most important life skills and is a practice I am sure has come up with every single client of yours, as it has with my clientele. Whether it's boundaries regarding fees, contact between sessions, an unexpected "small" gift offering with potentially large implications, or cancellations during the holidays or postpartum-we are pretty constantly navigating the interplay between our personal and professional ethics, our needs and interests as business owners, and doing no harm to client OR ourselves. Through these interactions with clients/potential clients, our website marketing to our discharge sessions is important that we're 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've worked so hard to cultivate.
Dr. Ayanna Abrams, licensed clinical psychologist and boundary 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 cultivate 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 boundaries by type (3) and area (6) and the role they play in the therapy relationship.
Identify the benefits and barriers to boundary implementation and reinforcement for therapists in various clinical settings.
Identify personal and professional needs and biases that contribute to common boundary violations in clinical treatment.
Describe ways (2) to repair the therapeutic alliance when boundaries have been breached.
Create professional boundary action plan (B.A.P.) for addressing boundary dilemmas with clients.
This training is eligible for 2 Continuing Education Credits for NBCC Counselors and New York LMHCs, LCSWs, and LMSWs
Want to seek your company’s financial support? Check out our request template to make the ask, and sign up using the organizational rate.
December 6, 1:00-3:00pm EST, conducted online via Zoom
Boundary setting is one of our most important life skills and is a practice I am sure has come up with every single client of yours, as it has with my clientele. Whether it's boundaries regarding fees, contact between sessions, an unexpected "small" gift offering with potentially large implications, or cancellations during the holidays or postpartum-we are pretty constantly navigating the interplay between our personal and professional ethics, our needs and interests as business owners, and doing no harm to client OR ourselves. Through these interactions with clients/potential clients, our website marketing to our discharge sessions is important that we're 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've worked so hard to cultivate.
Dr. Ayanna Abrams, licensed clinical psychologist and boundary 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 cultivate 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 boundaries by type (3) and area (6) and the role they play in the therapy relationship.
Identify the benefits and barriers to boundary implementation and reinforcement for therapists in various clinical settings.
Identify personal and professional needs and biases that contribute to common boundary violations in clinical treatment.
Describe ways (2) to repair the therapeutic alliance when boundaries have been breached.
Create professional boundary action plan (B.A.P.) for addressing boundary dilemmas with clients.
This training is eligible for 2 Continuing Education Credits for NBCC Counselors and New York LMHCs, LCSWs, and LMSWs
Want to seek your company’s financial support? Check out our request template to make the ask, and sign up using the organizational rate.
December 6, 1:00-3:00pm EST, conducted online via Zoom
Boundary setting is one of our most important life skills and is a practice I am sure has come up with every single client of yours, as it has with my clientele. Whether it's boundaries regarding fees, contact between sessions, an unexpected "small" gift offering with potentially large implications, or cancellations during the holidays or postpartum-we are pretty constantly navigating the interplay between our personal and professional ethics, our needs and interests as business owners, and doing no harm to client OR ourselves. Through these interactions with clients/potential clients, our website marketing to our discharge sessions is important that we're 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've worked so hard to cultivate.
Dr. Ayanna Abrams, licensed clinical psychologist and boundary 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 cultivate 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 boundaries by type (3) and area (6) and the role they play in the therapy relationship.
Identify the benefits and barriers to boundary implementation and reinforcement for therapists in various clinical settings.
Identify personal and professional needs and biases that contribute to common boundary violations in clinical treatment.
Describe ways (2) to repair the therapeutic alliance when boundaries have been breached.
Create professional boundary action plan (B.A.P.) for addressing boundary dilemmas with clients.
This training is eligible for 2 Continuing Education Credits for NBCC Counselors and New York LMHCs, LCSWs, and LMSWs
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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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.
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