Ethics for Supervisors

Description

Ethical violations in supervision don’t just hurt your supervisees—they can cost you your reputation, your livelihood, and your ability to practice. This course gives you the exact framework you need to avoid the most common legal and ethical pitfalls supervisors face.

Even seasoned supervisors can feel uncertain about where their responsibility ends—or what they’re legally accountable for. In this practical, self-paced course, you’ll gain the clarity, confidence, and skills to ethically support your supervisees and protect yourself in the process.

Kristin Ryan, M.S., brings over 30 years of real-world clinical experience and 20+ years of supervisory expertise to this training. As a licensed counselor, supervisor, educator, and dynamic presenter, she provides clinicians with practical insights and powerful strategies grounded in ethical best practices and supervisory standards.

Kristin’s engaging, accessible teaching style ensures that participants leave not only informed but also empowered. She breaks down complex ethical guidelines into relatable, applicable tools and offers a structured yet flexible learning experience tailored for busy professionals.

Topics explored in this course include supervisor preparation and competence, ethical boundaries, informed consent and supervision agreements, multicultural responsiveness, legal liabilities, documentation standards, and your role as a gatekeeper. You’ll also gain a solid ethical decision-making model to apply in supervision and practice.

Key Takeaways:

• Strengthen your supervision practices: Understand what constitutes ethical, competent, and legally sound supervision.

• Navigate boundaries and liabilities: Learn how to manage supervisory relationships, documentation, and your role as a gatekeeper.

• Model ethical excellence: Integrate a practical decision-making framework into your supervision to support supervisee growth and client protection.

Why This Course?

• A trusted expert instructor: Kristin’s decades of counseling and supervisory experience translate into real-world wisdom you can apply right away.

• Practical, actionable content: Every lesson is geared toward solving common ethical dilemmas faced by today’s behavioral health supervisors.

• A leading CE provider: Telehealth Certification Institute is nationally respected for its high-quality, flexible continuing education for behavioral health professionals.

Learning Objectives:

• Name ethical areas of supervisor competence, knowledge, and practice.

• Identify key ethics of the supervisory relationship.

• Discuss the ethical aspects of gatekeeping and monitoring supervisee development and competence.

• Describe common examples of liability concerns and a suggestion for managing

Gain the ethical foundation and supervisory confidence you need to support your supervisees—and yourself—with integrity. Your leadership matters. Let’s make sure it’s grounded in best practices. 

Enrol for this course and begin learning instantly.

Format and Access

This is a non-interactive self-study course.  Instruction consists of 5.5 hours of video instruction and a post-test.

Course Details

Availability: 

From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructor

About Kristin Ryan, M.S.

Kristin Ryan is a counselor, educator, and consultant with nearly 30 years of experience in counseling and ministry. She formerly owned and operated Grow Deep Counseling in Georgia (closed December 2021), where she served as a counselor, clinical supervisor, educator, and workshop trainer in partnership with churches, agencies, and organizations. Now based in Indiana, Kristin focuses exclusively on Christian counseling, discipleship-oriented care, consultation, and faith-based education and training. She is a former Georgia Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Professional Counselor Supervisor (both CPCS, ACS), and Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP), with credentials intentionally inactivated following her move to Indiana and transition in scope of practice.

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

Credit Hours:

This course consists of 5.5 ethics continuing education hours of credit.

Counselors:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC 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-0048.

Marriage and Family Therapists: 

Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations.  You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC 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-0135, effective May 8, 2025.

Social Workers:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, 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: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 5.5 ethics continuing education credits.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC 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-0435.

Addiction Professionals:

This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

Psychologists:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC 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-0128.

Art Therapists: 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC 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 Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.

Other Professionals:

This course qualifies for 330 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

This is a non-interactive, self-study course.

Accommodations and Policies

Close Captioning is available for live webinars and recorded video presentations.

You can click on the following links to view our policies:

• Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities.
• Cancellation Policy
• Grievance Policy
• Support Options
• Disclosure Statement