Ethics in Everyday Massage Practice
Massage, Ethics, and Everyday Practice: Boundaries, Consent, and Professional Judgment
2.5 CE Hours | Category: Ethics | Home Study, self-paced
NCBTMB Approved Provider #1003607
Most license discipline in massage therapy doesn't come from bad technique. It comes from boundary failures, consent failures, and communication failures. This intermediate-level course goes past entry-level definitions and into the situations you actually face: the client who asks for your personal number, the draping request that feels off, the friend who wants to become a client, the review that tempts you to reveal session details.
What's inside:
- The six ethical principles, with a practice example for each
- The power differential and why it holds even when you don't feel powerful
- Boundary crossings vs. violations, and the slope between them
- Dual relationships, transference, and countertransference
- Consent as a process, draping, confidentiality, and board-ready documentation
- A five-step decision model, demonstrated on two worked cases and applied across twenty real scenarios
- Mandatory reporting, impaired consent capacity, and responding to a colleague's misconduct
- A boundary-language script bank you can adapt to your own voice
- State-law lookup worksheet and sample policy language for your office
- Glossary, 15-question post-test, and an optional practice workbook
Format: 50-page PDF, instant download, read on any device. Work at your own pace.
How to get your certificate: Complete the 15-question post-test at the back of the course (70% to pass, 11 of 15 correct). Email your answers, along with your name and your license number and state, to Motorskillskidsplay@gmail.com. Your Certificate of Achievement will be emailed to you within 1-2 business days. Certificates are not issued automatically at checkout.
Approved by NCBTMB, Approved Provider #1003607, approval period 08/21/2026 to 08/31/2029. Approval by NCBTMB does not constitute endorsement. Please verify acceptance with your own state board before purchasing.
Meg Sherwood, LMT, MBA.