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Ethics Beyond the Rulebook: Navigating Professional Boundaries in Clinical Practice

CE Hours 3

About this live event

This interactive training focuses on the gray areas of professional boundaries and the real-world ethical decisions clinicians make every day. Can you accept a small gift from a client? Respond to a text after hours? Attend a client’s graduation? When does protecting a teen’s privacy conflict with keeping them safe? Rather than relying on rigid lists of “do’s and don’ts,” participants will explore how therapeutic purpose, client autonomy and vulnerability, power dynamics, potential risks and benefits, professional standards, consultation, and clinician self-awareness can inform thoughtful and ethical boundary decisions. The goal is not to make clinicians afraid of crossing a line, but to build confidence when boundaries feel less clear. Participants will leave with a practical, repeatable framework for recognizing potential boundary concerns, thinking critically when the line gets blurry, and making ethical decisions they can clinically support. This course is designed to meet the New York State requirement for mental health professionals to receive 3 hours of training on maintaining appropriate professional boundaries that was effective April 2023. This course is not New York State specific and can satisfy ethics and boundaries training requirements for any state. Slide deck and bonus resources included Recording: This class will be recorded and made available within 2 hours after the live lecture. Recordings are available for 90 days after the class.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify at least three clinician factors (e.g.,) emotional reactions, over-responsibility, personal values, or unmet needs, that may influence ethical boundary decision-making and signal a need for consultation or further reflection.
  • Differentiate between boundary crossings, boundary violations, and clinically appropriate flexibility within therapeutic relationships.
  • Analyze common boundary dilemmas using relevant professional and ethical considerations.

Learning Levels

  • Beginner and Intermediate, all levels welcome

Target Audience

All mental health professionals welcome.

Agenda

12:00 PM – 12:05 PM
Introductions & Course Overview

12:05 PM – 12:35 PM
Interactive Lecture: Revisiting Ethics in Professional Practice

12:35 PM – 1:15 PM
Understanding Professional Boundaries

1:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Case Examples

1:30 PM – 1:35 PM
BREAK
1:35 PM – 2:30 PM
Case Examples
Conflicts of interest
Dual and multiple relationships
Family relationships
Sexual and romantic relationships
Other relationships
Complicated financial interactions
Bartering for services
Other financial interactions
Boundary crossings vs. boundary violations
Applying ethical decision-making to complex situations

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM
Protecting Yourself from Ethical and Legal Liability

2:50 PM – 3:00 PM
Key Takeaways, Conclusion & Q&A

Live event Instructor(s)

  • Jaimee M. Arnoff, Ph.D.

    Jaimee Arnoff, Ph.D., is a New York State Licensed Clinical Psychologist and co-founder of BFF Therapy in Beacon, New York. She has more than a decade of clinical experience working with adolescents, young adults, and families across private practice, community mental health, and forensic settings. Her clinical work emphasizes evidence-based treatment for anxiety and mood disorders, suicidality, chronic pain, and complex family dynamics. Her roles as a psychologist, clinical supervisor, forensic evaluator, and consultant have included collaboration with families, schools, physicians, attorneys, and community systems. These experiences have required her to regularly navigate the complex intersections of client autonomy, caregiver involvement, confidentiality, safety, professional boundaries, and clinical judgment.

    Dr. Arnoff is an experienced continuing education presenter who provides trainings nationally to mental health professionals on evidence-based treatment, suicide assessment and intervention, culturally responsive care, mandated reporting, and other areas of clinical practice. She currently serves on the Board of the Advanced Clinical Education Foundation and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Family Social Work.

Disclosure

EngagedMinds Continuing Education, Erena DiGonis, and planners have no financial disclosures or commercial bias or promote commercial interests during CE activities.

CE Process Info

Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by his/her licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Please note: You must attend "live" (in real-time) to earn CE credits.

Before the event, you will receive an email from CE-Go with access to the virtual event. After the event, you will receive access to your evaluation and continuing education certificate via a personalized "attendee dashboard" link, hosted on the CE-Go website. This link and access to the virtual event will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event.

Upon accessing the CE-Go "attendee dashboard", you will be able to:

  • Complete evaluation forms for the event
  • Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE-Go platform, please contact CE-Go at 888-498-5578 or by email at support@ce-go.com Please Note: Emails for this event will come from "support@ce-go.com".

If you have any continuing education related questions, please contact your event organizer.

Please make sure to check your spam/junk folder in case those emails get "stuck". We'd also suggest "Allowlisting" support@ce-go.com. This tells your email client that you know this sender and trust them, which will keep emails from this contact at the top of your inbox and out of the junk folder.

  • New York State Education Department's State Board for SW (NYSED SW)

    EngagedMinds Continuing Education 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-0676.

  • Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)

    EngagedMinds Continuing Education, #1858, formerly Erena DiGonis, LCSW, PLLC, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 8/25/2024-8/25/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 3 continuing education credits.

  • National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)

    EngagedMinds Continuing Education has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7455. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. EngagedMinds Continuing Education is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

  • New York State Education Department's State Board for LMHC (NYSED LMHC)

    EngagedMinds Continuing Education 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-0284.

  • New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners (NYSED LMFT)

    EngagedMinds Continuing Education 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 marriage and family therapists #MFT-0117.

  • New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology (NYSED PSY)

    Erena DiGonis, LCSW, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0270.

  • California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)

    EngagedMinds Continuing Education is hereby recognized as a CAMFT-approved Continuing Education Provider. Provider number: 1032895

NYS Requirement and Beyond

This course is designed to meet the New York State requirement for mental health professionals to receive 3 hours of training on maintaining appropriate professional boundaries, which became effective in April 2023.


This course is not New York State-specific and can satisfy ethics and boundaries training requirements for any state.

Refund/Cancellation Policy

Please note: All refund requests will be honored if they are made within 24 hours prior to the course less a $10 processing fee. There are no refunds for participants who “no show.”

CE Credit Questions

ASWB ACE credit is approved for the United States and Canada.*

Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces accept courses approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.

The California Board of Behavioral Sciences will accept courses approved by ASWB and NBCC, please see website:

https://www.bbs.ca.gov/licensees/cont_ed.html

*New Jersey regulations state the following regarding acceptable sources of continuing education for Social Workers: "Attendance at programs or courses approved by boards that license social work practice in other states: one credit for each hour of attendance." This information can be found at the https://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/regulations/Chapter-44G-State-Board-of-Social-Work-Examiners.pdf

Many State Boards accept ASWB ACE credit for Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Addiction Professionals. It is the participant's responsibility to check with their individual state board to verify continuing education requirements for their state.

Disability Accommodation

ADA accommodations will be made in accordance with the law; please indicate your special needs upon registering at least 30 days prior to the event by sending an email to support@ce-go.com or by calling us at 888 498 5578. 

Where can I find my Attendee Dashboard link?

Upon registering, you should receive an email from support@ce-go.com with a link to access your Attendee Dashboard. If you do not see it in your inbox, please check your spam/junk folder. If you still cannot locate the email, you may retrieve your Attendee Dashboard link by clicking HERE

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Grievance

We want to hear your concerns 
Please contact Erena DiGonis, LCSW-R, via email and we will acknowledge your message within 24 hours.

We will provide a written response to your concerns within five business days. Please click here for the complete Grievance Policy

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  • Type
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  • Date
    Wed Nov 4th, 2026
  • Time
    12:00pm - 03:00pm EST
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