Ethical Responsibilities & Liabilities in Supervision – What Every Supervisor Needs To Know (Australian & New Zealand Context)
Live Webinar
About this webinar
Supervision has a crucial role in protecting clients, practitioners, and the profession. Supervision directly impacts practice fundamentals (such as informed consent and risk mitigation), therapeutic interactions (such as responding to cultural challenges, multiple relationships, defences, and transference/countertransference), safety (client and therapist vulnerabilities), and compliance confidence (confidentiality, privacy, record management, and disclosure).
Effective supervision is ethical supervision. The supervision-supervisee relationship is different from the therapist-client relationship. Supervisors need to understand their ethical responsibilities and know the bounds of their legal liability. Is a supervisor liable for their supervisee’s negligence? How close and intense should supervision be? What are the reasonable responsibilities and actions expected of a supervisor?
This webinar helps supervisors understand their ethical responsibilities and legal liabilities in an Australian and New Zealand context.
The Ethics Edge Series
Know your supervision duties—ethical and legal.
Learn how to navigate risk, responsibility, and compliance with confidence in supervision practice.
Webinar Details
Venue: Online on Zoom. Includes access to video recording for 60 days.
Date: Wednesday, 3rd December, 2025
Time: 6.30 p.m to 8.30 p.m (Sydney/Melbourne Time)
Cost: 79.99
CPD Certificate: 2 Hours. CPD certificates are issued to attendees who meet one of the following criteria: attend the live webinar with at least 80% attendance, or watch the webinar recording and complete the associated assessment component.
The Ethics Edge Series
Supervise ethically. Protect clients, protect yourself.
Clarify your ethical duties and legal boundaries as a supervisor in the ANZ context.
About Dr Kris Rao
Kris is a psychotherapist & a psychoanalyst primarily providing long term therapy for complex trauma disorders. He is also a clinical supervisor for the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy (ANZAP) training program. He has a Master of Science in Medicine (Psychotherapy) and a Doctorate in Psychoanalysis. Kris teaches ethics & psychodynamic psychotherapy as adjunct faculty at universities and higher education institutions across Australia and New Zealand.