Carly Hill explains how clinicians offering coaching can list credentials like LCSW without misleading clients. Use consultation calls to clarify that coaching isn't therapy, though it's legal to call yourself a therapist.
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You don't have to hide your credentials, but you don't want to be like, hire me as your coach because I'm a therapist. But if you're an lcsw, for example, like, that doesn't need to be taken off your bio or your website. It is a credibility builder for us. But again, we don't want our clients to be confused. We don't want them to think that they're signing up for therapy. But regardless, you're going to get them on a consultation call, you're going to use your clinical discernment, and you're going to clear up any confusion. But ask yourself the question when you're creating content and you're dropping that you are a therapist, is this confusing for them? On the services that I'm advertising? But it is not illegal to say that you are a therapist.