Free Ethics Self-Assessment

Therapist Social Media
Ethics Audit

A 5-minute self-assessment to identify boundary, confidentiality, and content risks in your online presence.

5 minutes 20 questions Instant results

Social media has become one of the most common ways therapists educate, build visibility, and connect with the public. However, many of us were never formally trained in the ethical considerations of practicing online.

This audit offers a clearer picture of where your current approach may benefit from additional structure.

Professional Identity Boundaries

Client Boundaries Online

Confidentiality & Storytelling Risks

Clinical Authority & Advice

Content Integrity

You'll answer 20 questions across five areas of therapist social media ethics. At the end, you'll receive your score, your highest-risk area, and a personalized next step.

The Audit

Answer as honestly as you can

There is no passing score here. For each statement, choose the rating that most accurately reflects your current practice, and your section scores and total will update as you go.

Your Results

0/100

Your Highest-Risk Area

What this means for your online presence

A starting point

Score Breakdown

From Reflection to Structure

Identifying your highest-risk area is a valuable first step. From here, it helps to think concretely about what a more consistent structure would look like in your own practice.

Your score can help you identify where your current online presence may benefit from clearer ethical structure. Once you know where the gaps are, you can begin creating the policies, response plans, and content boundaries that support more consistent decision-making over time.

Many therapists respond to this kind of reflection by deciding to be more mindful online. Mindfulness on its own, though, does not offer a plan for the moment a client follows you, sends a message, comments on a post, or recognizes themselves in something you have shared. Having a decision-making framework in place before these situations arise tends to make them easier to navigate when they do.

Building an Ethical Online Presence

Your score is a snapshot of your current online practices, not a measure of your clinical competence.

Building an Ethical Online Presence

A self-paced course for therapists

$47

If this audit showed you that your online presence needs clearer boundaries, stronger policies, or a more defensible content framework, The Building an Ethical Online Presence course walks you through the next step.

By the end of the course, you will have:

A written social media boundary policy
A response plan for client DMs, follows, comments, and reactions
A framework for deciding what to post and what not to post
A clearer distinction between psychoeducation and therapy online
A more professionally defensible way to show up online

This course is grounded in original doctoral research examining how clients perceive therapists online, drawing on findings gathered from 177 participants and translating them into practical, ethically grounded guidance for clinicians.

This May Be Especially Helpful If

You post psychoeducation online.
You have clients or potential clients viewing your content.
You are unsure how to handle follows, DMs, comments, or clinical examples.
You want visibility without ethical guesswork.

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Therapist Social MediaEthics Audit

Answer as honestly as you can

What this means for your online presence

Identifying your highest-risk area is a valuable first step. From here, it helps to think concretely about what a more consistent structure would look like in your own practice.

Your Recommended Course Focus

Building an Ethical Online Presence

This May Be Especially Helpful If

Therapist Social Media
Ethics Audit