Navigating Existential Issues in Psychotherapy: Top Ethical Challenges

Earn 3 CEUs!*

Description

Have you ever wondered how to manage your countertransference when working with clients on deep existential issues? Does your own fear of dying or getting very ill influence how you show up for them? Do you ask yourself how you can help people find meaning when you often struggle with finding meaning yourself? Or maybe you work regularly with people who are ill, or in an existential crisis around end-of-life issues, and at times you find it hard to stay grounded yourself. This workshop will help you navigate this uncertain and yet wildly human terrain with more equanimity and grace. You will learn how to more calmly and surely walk alongside your clients as they grapple with the larger questions that we all face, while adhering to relevant ethical standards regarding self-disclosure, for example. Managing countertransference, applying of ethical principles and professional codes and clear clinical recommendations will be included.

Objectives:

1. List 3 ways to manage existential countertransference with clients who are dealing with end-of-life issues

2. Examine their own beliefs relevant to working with existential issues in psychotherapy

3. Develop greater self-awareness around reasons to consider therapist self-disclosure regarding existential issues with clients

4. More deeply understand the ethical principles most relevant to working with existential issues in psychotherapy

* This CE activity offered by Minnesota Association of Marriage and Family is approved by the Minnesota Board of Social Work as an approved CE Provider (approval valid through July 25, 2026).

This CE activity is pending CE approval with Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.