What I can and can't do as a Licensed Social Worker, and how I'm with my legal and ethical rights to provide coaching and masterclasses via Skool, Nationally and Internationally...
As a licensed clinical social worker, approved supervisor, and experienced educator, you can provide psychoeducational coaching, training, workshops, retreats, masterclasses, and educational programs across jurisdictions when those services are clearly structured as education, coaching, consultation, leadership development, personal growth, or skills training rather than psychotherapy, clinical assessment, diagnosis, or treatment. The key distinctions typically include: - No diagnosis or treatment of mental health disorders. - No psychotherapy or clinical counseling relationship. - No individualized clinical treatment planning. - No clinical documentation or medical records associated with the coaching program. - Clear informed consent and disclaimers that services are educational/coaching in nature. - Marketing language that emphasizes education, personal development, trauma-informed education, resilience, nervous system education, leadership development, healing journeys, etc., rather than clinical treatment. - Referral processes when participants require psychotherapy or clinical intervention. Just an FYI for all who think otherwise!