Who Heals the Healers Behind Bars?

Ethics, Wellness, and Creative Exploration for Correctional Clinicians

A 3-hour interactive ethics CEU that blends Internal Family Systems (IFS), trauma-informed care, and expressive arts. 
Because ethics isn’t just policy, it’s survival.

Another Ethics CEU? Not this one.

  • Most ethics trainings recycle the same slides.

  • Most ignore the realities of correctional settings.

  • And almost none speak to your trauma as the clinician.

What you’ll get

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    3 Ethics CE Hours that actually apply to the realities of correctional and forensic work (NBCC pending).

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    Practical strategies for navigating dual loyalty, retraumatization risks, and policy vs. care conflicts.

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    An IFS-informed framework to recognize your own protective parts before they hijack your ethical decisions.

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    Creative, ADHD-friendly tools (metaphor mapping, journaling, imagery) to reflect and reset in real time.

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    A personalized ethics + wellness statement you’ll create in-session to anchor your practice.

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    Replay access + certificate so you can learn at your own pace if you can’t attend live.

What’s inside

Module 1: Ethics & Corrections Reality Check

  • Why correctional ethics aren’t like textbook ethics.

  • The “tightrope” of dual loyalty: client care vs. institutional demands.

  • Common traps: retraumatization, blurred boundaries, and survival-mode decision-making.

Module 2: IFS Lens — The Clinician’s Internal System

  • How secondary trauma + burnout activate protective parts (rescuer, fixer, numb, punitive).

  • Spotting when your parts are influencing your ethical choices.

  • Using IFS to unblend in high-stress moments.

Module 3: Integration & Resilience Practices

  • Resilience as an ethical safeguard — how wellness supports integrity.

  • Expressive arts strategies for regulation + self-reflection in the moment.

  • Creating your personal ethics/wellness statement to take back into your setting.

Meet Mariah

Mariah is a trauma therapist and researcher specializing in Internal Family Systems, somatic therapy, and correctional mental health. She blends lived clinical experience, forensic research, and creative approaches to make ethics engaging, practical, and empowering.

Mariah J. Zur, LPC, CCTP, NCC, PhD (ABD)
Clinical Director | Speaker | Educator

Limited Enrollment

Limited Enrollment

✺ Frequently asked questions ✺

  • Yes. Pending NBCC approval, this training provides 3 ethics hours that meet licensure renewal requirements for LPCs, LCSWs, MFTs, and most mental health clinicians in Pennsylvania and many other states. Always confirm with your state board.

  • No worries. All registrants will receive access to the replay recording and a short post-test. Once you complete the post-test, you’ll receive your CE certificate.

  • Not at all. The expressive arts elements use simple metaphors, journaling, and imagery. They’re ADHD-friendly and low-pressure, designed to deepen reflection, not test your art skills.

  • Most ethics CEUs are dry lectures. This one is interactive, trauma-informed, and IFS-based. You’ll explore how your own internal system impacts ethical choices and leave with tools you can actually use in correctional or forensic work.

  • Yes. To keep the training engaging and interactive, live seats are capped (40 max). Once it’s full, registration will close.

  • Just Zoom and a stable internet connection. You’ll also want a notebook or some blank paper for the creative reflection exercises.

Ready to earn your ethics hours without another
boring lecture?

Step into a training that sees you, not just your role.