Clinical Considerations for LCSWs Online: A Sticky Situation

Presenter: Laura Groshong, LICSW, CSWA Director of Policy and Practice

A one-hour webinar on the meaning to LCSW and patient on leaving the office to work online during the COVID crisis. The emotional challenges for LCSWs and their patients are considerable. Trying to process our own feelings so we can be available to our patients when we are all dealing the pandemic is a unique situation.

Learning Objectives:

1. Emotional meaning of leaving the office
2. LCSWs processing own experience of loss of office first
3. LCSWs processing not feeling in control because of COVID
4. Understanding joint pandemic crisis without losing boundaries
5. Diagnostic considerations
6. When to set boundaries for patient behavior online

About the Presenter:

Laura Groshong, LICSW, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Seattle, has been psychoanalytically trained, and works with severe personality disorders. She has been in clinical private practice for the past 43 years. She was a Registered Lobbyist in Washington State for 25 years. She is the Director of Policy and Practice for the Clinical Social Work Association. She has written and lectured extensively on clinical and legislative issues around the country.