Financial boundaries

Organised by UKCP's Ethics Committee.

Have you ever struggled with questions about:

• how much to charge
• when it's right to put up fees
• what you do about cancellations and holidays
• whether to offer sliding scales
• how to earn enough from working as a therapist to avoid burnout?

Then this third boundaries webinar is for you.

Talking about money can feel uncomfortable – whether with clients or with fellow therapists. This interactive session will consider some of the taboos and the sense of self-worth involved in talking about money. It will also consider the costs of training, which can limit access and create barriers to entering the profession.

Good financial health matters as much as mental and physical wellbeing — for therapists and clients alike. This session explores financial boundaries as a benefit to both, examining how transparency, integrity and a healthy relationship with money can model positive adult behaviour for clients.

Participants will have the opportunity to reflect with peers on questions such as how to value their emotional labour, how to navigate abundance and scarcity, and how to build both short and long-term financial security.

The workshop aims to support therapists in developing their thinking about clear financial boundaries and how robust contracting at the outset of therapy can strengthen this area of professional practice.

Learning objectives:

• stimulate ethical thinking as part of a series of webinars on professional boundaries
• open up discussion of the ethical dimensions of money in practice and training
• promote practitioner reflection on the ethics of money and financial boundaries.

Speaker

Julie Stone is leading this session. She is UKCP's independent ethics lead and chair of UKCP's Ethics Committee.