12/4/2025 Noon – 3:15pm
Summary:
Boundaries are central to how we develop a sense of self and relate to others. This training presents helping professionals with insights and information pertaining to the nature of boundaries and explores the various types of boundaries that are essential when working with clients and patients. It addresses common reasons counselors struggle with establishing and maintaining healthy professional boundaries. It presents a review of the purpose and role of boundaries in therapeutic relationships and suggests effective ways of navigating counselor and client boundary issues.
OBJECTIVES:
• Demonstrate a knowledge of how boundaries formed and developed.
• Distinguish between the various types of boundaries
• Identify warning signs of boundary fatigue and common reasons that mental health professionals act inappropriately and unethically with clients.
• Discuss ways of establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries while navigating sensitive boundary issues with clients
3 CEUS (Ethics): Oklahoma LPC, LADC (3 hrs. Ethics), CADC, LCSW, LMFT and Case Management. Nursing certificate of participation. Pre-registration is required. Seating is limited. please refer questions to esachau@parksideinc.org.
About the Presenter:
Sandra K. Richardson, Ed.D., LPC has over 30 years of professional experience as a counselor educator, professional counselor, and administrator. She serves as a Professor of Professional Counseling and the Director of Assessment for the graduate school of Theology and Ministry at Oral Roberts. Dr. Richardson is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Approved Supervisor in the state of Oklahoma. She travels extensively internationally presenting at conferences and working with culturally diverse populations. She has also conducted research assessing the multicultural competence of mental health professionals in the state of Oklahoma.
Prior to joining ORU, Dr. Richardson was instrumental in establishing and directing the Tulsa Area Community Intervention Center and has been actively involved in the local community working with civic and community leaders throughout the state of Oklahoma. Dr. Richardson has provided counseling services for youth, adults, and families in community mental health and worked extensively with delinquent juveniles in Oklahoma’s maxi- mum security intensive treatment facility. While working at Youth Services of Tulsa, she served as a Family Counselor and the Director of Education and Outreach overseeing and developing various outreach programs for youth. She also served as the Director of the Salvation Army Federal Community Corrections Center overseeing and managing federal inmates and was a liaison with various federal entities and officials to facilitate inmate transition into the community from federal prisons.
