The Ethics of Caring is a unique and widely recommended text that complements standard ethics texts by helping the student or professional find  right relationship with a client. Written for practicing therapy and medical professionals, bodyworkers, clergy, students, teachers, supervisors, and mentors, The Ethics of Caring model first promotes self-compassion, then gently guides self-reflection about motivations and unconscious countertransference that often occurs in the main areas of human life (Money, Sex, Power, Love, Truth, Insight, Oneness.) The book illuminates many extra-ordinary types of human experiences to help professionals become aware in case clients bring these experiences and profound states to the professional for support, as many are doing now as psychedelic-assisted therapy becomes more accessible.

The Ethics of Caring won the Nautilus Book Award, the Silver Medal for the category, Relationships & Communication.

Staying in right relationship with a client is often an artful movement, a dance with a different “partner” each time. Yet there are helpful rules of thumb that can keep us from stepping on toes (doing harm) and actually support both professional and client in doing a beautiful, healing dance together (creating client benefit). The Ethics of Caring is a unique ethics text designed to guide the self-compassionate self-reflection of professionals (therapists, clergy, hospice workers, bodyworkers, educators, medical professionals, mentors, and other caregivers) toward understanding human motivations and countertransference, finding professional right relationship, and making good choices with clients. The Ethics of Caring also illuminates the inevitable, profound, transformative moments that occur in many professional relationships, which furnish greater potential for client healing, but also may bring greater ethical challenges.

The Ethics of Caring can be used as a classroom text, a manual for self-supervision, a guide for peer consultation or supervision groups, or to assist supervisors in more formal individual and group supervision.