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Complicated Relationships:
Case Studies in Ethics and Boundaries

Mental health professionals are more than their professional role. We have personal lives. When those personal lives intertwine with our professional lives, things get complicated. This training explores dual/multiple relationships by examining case examples from the common to the unlikely, but still real. Special attention will be paid to considerations for communities where dual/multiple relationships in the provision of mental health care might not be avoidable, including rural areas, religious groups, LGBTQ communities, and veterans of military service.

This course is designed to meet the NYS requirement of mental health professionals to receive 3 hours of training on maintaining appropriate professional boundaries. This course is NOT New York state specific, and can satisfy ethics, boundaries and general CE requirements for any state.

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Complicated Relationships:
Case Studies in Ethics and Boundaries

Friday, December 19, 2025, 10:00 AM EST
$59.99 Kathryn Krase, Ph.D.,

Mental health professionals are more than their professional role. We have personal lives. When those personal lives intertwine with our professional lives, things get complicated. This training explores dual/multiple relationships by examining case examples from the common to the unlikely, but still real. Special attention will be paid to considerations for communities where dual/multiple relationships in the provision of mental health care might not be avoidable, including rural areas, religious groups, LGBTQ communities, and veterans of military service.

This course is designed to meet the NYS requirement of mental health professionals to receive 3 hours of training on maintaining appropriate professional boundaries. This course is NOT New York state specific, and can satisfy ethics, boundaries and general CE requirements for any state.

About the Presenter

Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W., Principal Consultant with Krase Consultant, is an expert on the professional ethics, and the intersection of ethics with legal responsibilities. She has years of experience consulting with government and community based organizations to develop policy & practice standards.

This workshop Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

Complicated Relationships:
Case Studies in Ethics and Boundaries

Friday, December 19, 2025, 10:00 AM EST

Presenter: Kathryn Krase, Ph.D.,

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Course Length: 3 Hours

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the ethical and legal responsibility of mental health professionals to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with their clients.
  2. Define dual/multiple relationships.
  3. Apply a framework to avoid dual/multiple relationships whenever possible.
  4. Apply a framework to minimize potential harm to clients and the professional whenever dual/multiple relationships are not avoidable.

This workshop Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

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Mental health professionals are more than their professional role. We have personal lives. When those personal lives intertwine with our professional lives, things get complicated. This training explores dual/multiple relationships by examining case examples from the common to the unlikely, but still real. Special attention will be paid to considerations for communities where dual/multiple relationships in the provision of mental health care might not be avoidable, including rural areas, religious groups, LGBTQ communities, and veterans of military service.

This course is designed to meet the NYS requirement of mental health professionals to receive 3 hours of training on maintaining appropriate professional boundaries. This course is NOT New York state specific, and can satisfy ethics, boundaries and general CE requirements for any state.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the ethical and legal responsibility of mental health professionals to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with their clients.
  2. Define dual/multiple relationships.
  3. Apply a framework to avoid dual/multiple relationships whenever possible.
  4. Apply a framework to minimize potential harm to clients and the professional whenever dual/multiple relationships are not avoidable.

Agenda:

Introductions (5 minutes)

The Basics of Boundaries (25 minutes)

A definition of boundaries will be presented. This section will then outline an ethical framework

for decision making to use when contemplating boundaries related concerns. The definition of

dual/ multiple relationships with be introduced.

Overlapping Connections (30 minutes)

This section will explore common, and confusing, case examples where mental health

professionals are connected to their clients in ways beyond the provision of professional

services. The complications that these overlaps present will be analyzed using the framework

provided previously.

Communities in Common (30 minutes)

This section will explore case examples where mental health practitioners are found in the same

groups as their clients, whether through active participation, or through self-identification.

Trials and Tribulations of Technology (30 minutes)

This section will explore case examples where the use of technology in mental health practice

have complicated boundaries between clients and their practitioners.

Protecting Yourself from Ethical & Legal Liability (20 minutes)

This section will outline the framework that professionals can use to prevent ethical

conundrums, and protect themselves from legal liability when maintaining professional

boundaries is most complicated.

Conclusions/Questions (10 minutes)

This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: beginner
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by the NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
  • Therapist Express 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-0325.
  • Therapist Express 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-0774.
  • Therapist Express 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-0129.
  • Therapist Express 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-0325.
  • Therapist Express 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-0129.
  • CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
    CE You! maintains responsibility for this program.
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*exclusions apply for reasonable need and cause.