Boundaries, Self-Care, and Professional Ethics – Free Clinician Training with Adrienne Sturtevant
Burnout, sleepless nights, irritability, and blurred boundaries can affect more than personal well-being. For clinicians, they can also become professional risks that influence judgment, documentation, client relationships, and ethical decision-making.
Boundaries, Self-Care, and Professional Ethics — Clinical Strategies to Prevent Burnout, Uphold Personal Values & Adhere to Ethical Guidelines — is a practical, ethics-grounded training presented by ethics expert Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW. The program explores how professional boundaries, personal values, self-care, and ethical standards intersect in everyday clinical work.
You’ll examine common boundary concerns such as self-disclosure, dual relationships, telehealth, documentation, and countertransference, while also looking at the role of current ethics codes and standards. The training connects these issues with burnout prevention and the professional responsibilities that support client care.
You’ll also build a clearer framework for ethical self-care, workplace boundaries, communication, treatment planning, and recognizing when your own values or stress responses may be affecting clinical decisions.
Why Attend “Boundaries, Self-Care, and Professional Ethics”
Boundary violations, burnout, and ethical missteps are not always obvious. They can show up in small scheduling exceptions, discomfort that begins to affect documentation, or the gradual erosion of limits that once felt clear.
Adrianne Sturtevant brings an ethics-focused perspective to the connection between personal well-being and professional responsibility. The training examines how self-care, boundaries, values, and ethical standards can influence clinical judgment, client relationships, and day-to-day practice.
The emphasis is practical: identifying areas of risk, strengthening boundaries, recognizing burnout factors, and developing a more deliberate approach to self-care that can support ethical clinical work without treating self-care as separate from professional responsibility.
Who Should Attend
This training is for clinicians and behavioral health professionals who want clearer boundaries and a more deliberate approach to ethical self-care. It is especially relevant when stress, workload, documentation, communication, or difficult clinical dynamics begin to test professional limits.
The material also supports practitioners who want to examine how personal values, workplace conditions, telehealth, dual relationships, transference, countertransference, and client communication can affect ethical decision-making.
- Clinicians who want to strengthen professional boundaries
- Therapists concerned about burnout and the effects of chronic work stress
- Professionals navigating self-disclosure, dual relationships, or communication limits
- Clinicians working through telehealth and documentation boundary questions
- Practitioners examining how personal values intersect with professional ethics
- Therapists who want a structured approach to ethical self-care
- Clinicians working with transference or countertransference concerns
- Professionals who want to integrate values and boundaries into treatment planning
What You’ll Learn
You’ll begin with the foundations of professional boundaries, including the difference between personal and professional limits and the ways self-disclosure, dual relationships, telehealth, documentation, and countertransference can complicate clinical work.
You’ll then examine ethical self-care, including how professional organizations address self-care, how personal values can intersect with ethical standards, and how emotional, psychological, physical, spiritual, professional, and relational self-care can support healthier boundaries.
The training also connects burnout prevention with treatment planning and client communication, so you can consider boundaries not only as a personal practice but also as part of ethical, clinically appropriate work with clients.
- How personal and professional boundaries differ in clinical practice
- What self-disclosure, dual relationships, telehealth, and documentation can reveal about boundary risk
- How current ethics codes and standards inform boundaries and self-care
- Ways personal values can affect professional ethics and client self-determination
- How to build a self-care plan that supports healthy professional boundaries
- Predictive and protective factors associated with burnout
- How to recognize and manage transference and countertransference
- Ways to incorporate boundaries and values into treatment planning and client communication
- The role of supervision, peer support, continuing education, and workplace conditions in ethical practice
About Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW
Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with more than 15 years of experience across a range of therapeutic settings. She earned her Master of Social Work from San Diego University and currently operates an online private practice providing evidence-based therapy to adolescents and adults in multiple states.
Her background also includes consulting with organizations that are developing telehealth infrastructure, clinician recruitment, and multi-state operations. Earlier in her career, she worked in emergency foster care, wilderness therapy, and community-based settings, where she developed clinical processes for remote teams, trained and supervised staff, and provided evidence-based healthcare.
Her professional perspective on boundaries is informed by both clinical practice and the demands of maintaining professional and personal commitments. In this training, that experience is brought into a practical discussion of self-care, ethics, burnout prevention, and the boundary decisions clinicians face in everyday work.
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Join Adrianne Sturtevant, LICSW, for practical guidance on professional boundaries, ethical self-care, burnout prevention, and values-aware clinical decision-making.
- Dec 28 2026
- 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Dec 28 2026
- Time: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
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