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ACEP No. 7260 • 6 Live Synchronous CE Hours

Water
Keeper

Ethics of AI in Mental Health

6 Live Synchronous Hours
May 16 & Aug 2, 2026
Live Webinar • All States
"The ethics of AI in mental health is not about the water. It is about who is keeping it — and whether they know what they are doing."
— Dr. Darleen Claire Wodzenski
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2026 Dates
Run 1 May 16, 2026
Run 2 August 2, 2026
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NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider
NBCC Approved
Provider ACEP #7260
Only 1
Live Sync AI Ethics CE
in the NBCC Marketplace
6
Live Synchronous
CE Hours
10
Documented AI Harm
Case Studies
30+
Years Professional
Service
Water Keeper: Riding the Wave of Human-AI Alchemical Evolution — Dr. Darleen Claire Wodzenski
The Book Behind the Course

Water Keeper
Riding the Wave of
Human-AI Alchemical Evolution

Includes Implications for Mental Health

The CE course and the book are companion works — born from the same clinical urgency. The book goes deeper into the frameworks, the philosophy, and the call to mental health professionals as the essential stewards of the AI age.

Where the course gives you the clinical toolkit, the book gives you the foundation — the thesis, the metaphor, the ethical argument, and the vision for what the counseling profession can become when it steps fully into its role as humanity's guide through the most consequential technological shift in history.

Author
Dr. Darleen Claire Wodzenski
MS ESE · MA CMHC · PhD · LPC · NCC · ACS
Publisher
Psychoneuroeducational
Institute, LLC
CE Connection
Companion to the
Water Keeper CE Course

"Water can quench, nourish, and grow — or it can crush, devastate, and drown. The ethics is not about the water itself. It is about who is keeping it."

Register for the Course → Learn About the Book
Human and AI collaboration
The Moment We Are In

Your clients are already
using AI.
Are you ready?

The NBCC is actively writing AI governance policy for counselors right now. This training gives you the clinical framework, ethical tools, and practical protocols you need — before the mandate arrives.

  • ✓
    NBCC is drafting AI governance standards for licensed counselors — attending now positions you ahead of the requirement.
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    AI companion chatbots are being used by your clients between sessions — with zero clinical oversight.
  • ✓
    Most state boards now require live synchronous hours for ethics credit. This is the only live AI ethics CE in the NBCC marketplace.
  • ✓
    Ten documented cases of AI harm to mental health clients — each with clinical intervention and documentation language.
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    AI is not the threat to the counseling profession. AI is the reason the counseling profession has never mattered more.
The Complete Clinical Toolkit

Leave with everything you need
starting Monday.

Technology meets humanity

Not slides and
a certificate.
A full toolkit.

Every participant leaves with real, deployable tools — documentation templates, session scripts, risk management protocols, and ten AI case studies with full clinical language — ready for Monday morning.

📋

Documentation Templates

AI-specific clinical documentation language ready to integrate into your current notes and records.

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Session Scripts

Word-for-word clinical language for introducing AI risk conversations with clients in session.

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Risk Management Templates

AI risk assessment tools built on the NIST AI RMF and WHO Six Principles for clinical settings.

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Ethical Decision Frameworks

The Seven Clinical Hazard Categories (A–G) with a tiered risk-governance protocol for your practice.

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10 AI Case Studies

Ten documented cases of AI harm — each with complete clinical intervention and documentation language.

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Fluid Trauma™ AI Protocol

Dr. Darleen's proprietary five-stage protocol for assessing and protecting vulnerable populations from AI clinical harm.

Course Content

6 Hours. One complete framework.

Every hour is built around your clinical reality — not abstract theory. You will apply, practice, and leave equipped.

Hour 1
AI Categories & Risk Profiles
Five AI categories in clinical practice; risk-tiering criteria; Documentation & Admin AI, Psychoeducational AI, Therapeutic Companion AI, Clinical Decision Support, and Risk-Forward applications.
Hour 2
Ten Cases · WHO · NIST
Ten documented cases of AI harm to clients; WHO Six Principles — Clinical Application; NIST AI Risk Management Framework (Govern · Map · Measure · Manage); regulatory landscape.
Hour 3
Risk-Tiered Governance
Seven Clinical Hazard Categories (A–G); Context Blindness & Malicious Exploitation; the Human Superpower™ of AI Fear; risk-forward vs. balanced vs. risk-averse practice styles.
Hour 4
Consent · Intake · Mental Status Exam
AI Safety Intake Protocol; Mental Status Exam additions for AI use; Informed Consent Workflow; client rights; data transparency; limitations disclosure.
Hour 5
Fluid Trauma™ · Vulnerable Populations
Fluid Trauma™ AI Protocol — Five Stages; youth-facing chatbot safety evaluation; context blindness in vulnerable populations; protective clinical frameworks for at-risk clients.
Hour 6
The Water Keeper's Oath
A Conversation That Healed (contrast case); Six Safety Conditions; The Thesis; The Calling; Your AI Ethics Practice Commitment — The Water Keeper's Oath.
Child with AI robot — vulnerable populations
Hour 5 Protecting the most vulnerable from AI harm
Clinician in nature by the water
The Clinician Your wellbeing is an ethical obligation
Contemplative practice
The Calling You are the keeper of the water
Learning Objectives

After this training,
you will be able to:

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    Identify and categorize five types of AI applications in clinical practice and apply risk-tiering criteria to each.
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    Analyze ten documented cases of AI harm to clients and apply appropriate clinical intervention and documentation language.
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    Apply the WHO Six Principles for AI in mental health and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to clinical governance decisions.
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    Utilize the Seven Clinical Hazard Categories (A–G) to assess AI risk in your specific practice setting.
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    Construct an AI-informed informed consent process, intake protocol, and Mental Status Exam meeting current ethical standards.
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    Apply the Fluid Trauma™ AI Protocol to assess and protect vulnerable populations — including youth — from AI-related clinical harm.
Contemplative clinician
"No one else in the entire Universe is better equipped to usher humanity safely and lovingly into the AI age than mental health professionals."
Market Position

There is nothing else
like this in the marketplace.

Not one NBCC-approved provider offers a live synchronous, 6-hour AI ethics CE built on a proprietary clinical framework. As of March 2026, this is the only one.

Feature ◆ Water Keeper All Other CE Providers
Live Synchronous Ethics CE Format ✓ Yes ✕ Mostly self-paced
AI Ethics Specialty (6 hours) ✓ Only offering ✕ None identified
Proprietary Clinical Frameworks ✓ Fluid Trauma™, Human Superpower™ ✕ Generic third-party content
10 Documented AI Harm Case Studies ✓ Yes — with clinical language ✕ No
Clinician-Authored by NCC/ACS ✓ Dr. Darleen (NCC, ACS) ✕ Corporate providers
Complete Clinical Toolkit Included ✓ Templates, scripts, protocols ✕ Slides only
Dr. Darleen Claire Wodzenski
Dr. Darleen Claire Wodzenski
MS ESE · MA CMHC · PhD · LPC · NCC · ACS
Orchard Human Services NBCC ACEP #7260 Orchard Human Services, Inc.
NBCC ACEP #7260
Your Instructor

Trained for
this moment.

PhD LPC NCC ACS MS ESE MA CMHC

Dr. Darleen's professional journey began in 1994 — in her own home, as an educator who discovered that the words we give children become the voice they carry for a lifetime. That conviction deepened through pastoral counseling beginning in 1996, special education leadership beginning in 2009, and the founding of Orchard Human Services, Inc. in 2012.

After receiving her PhD in December 2018, she pursued licensure, earned the NCC credential, and served as adjunct faculty for graduate university courses. Her ACS was conferred through CCE in 2022. Hers is a career spanning ministry, education, technology, and mental health — each chapter informing the next.

As a national presenter at the National Youth at Risk Conference, CEC, and GAEYC, and the developer of the Fluid Trauma™ Protocol and Human Superpower™ frameworks, Dr. Darleen brings rare depth to a field that urgently needs it.

40+
Years Computer Information Technology
5
Proprietary Clinical Frameworks
NBCC
ACEP Provider #7260
"As leaders in supporting the hearts and minds of humans, no one else in the entire Universe is better equipped to usher humanity safely and lovingly into the AI age than mental health professionals."
Open water horizon
"AI is not the threat to the counseling profession.
AI is the reason the counseling profession has never mattered more." — Dr. Darleen Claire Wodzenski, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS
Participant Voices

What clinicians are
saying.

★★★★★
"I have been practicing for 14 years and this is the first training that actually gave me tools I could use in session on Monday. The case studies alone were worth every penny."
Licensed Professional Counselor Georgia
★★★★★
"I came in skeptical about AI in therapy and left with a completely reframed understanding. The Fluid Trauma™ protocol is something my whole team needs to learn."
LCSW, Clinical Director Texas
★★★★★
"Finally. A CE that addresses what's actually happening in my clients' lives right now. The documentation templates and session scripts are already in my practice binder."
LMFT, Private Practice Florida
Registration

One course. Complete preparation.

Early bird pricing closes 30 days before each event. Institutional and group rates available — see below.

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  • ✓ 6 Live Synchronous CE Hours
  • ✓ Complete Clinical Toolkit
  • ✓ NBCC Certificate of Completion
  • ✓ Access to Session Recording (14 days)
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  • ✓ 6 Live Synchronous CE Hours
  • ✓ Complete Clinical Toolkit
  • ✓ NBCC Certificate of Completion
  • ✓ Access to Session Recording (14 days)
  • ✓ Water Keeper's Oath PDF
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  • ✓ 5–10 seats: 15% per seat
  • ✓ 11–20 seats: 20% per seat
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Questions

Frequently Asked

Most state licensing boards require live synchronous CE hours for ethics credit — self-paced text and video do not qualify. Water Keeper is 6 live synchronous hours, satisfying the format requirement in nearly every state that mandates live ethics CE.
Licensed mental health professionals seeking NBCC-approved ethics CE: LPCs, LMHCs, LCSWs, LMFTs, NCCs, and ACSs. Any clinician whose clients are using AI tools — which is virtually every active clinician in 2026.
Yes. Orchard Human Services, Inc. is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7260. NBCC ACEP #7260 Upon completion, you will receive a certificate documenting 6 NBCC-approved CE hours. Check with your state board to confirm CE eligibility for your license type.
Contact us at least 7 days before the event to transfer your registration to the next available run. We accommodate schedule changes — your seat investment does not expire.
Yes. Group discounts begin at 5 seats (15% per seat) and scale to 25% for 21+ seats with custom invoicing. Contact us directly for enterprise or university arrangements.
Fluid Trauma™ is Dr. Darleen's proprietary, trademarked five-stage clinical protocol for assessing and protecting vulnerable populations in therapeutic contexts involving AI. It is developed and owned by Psychoneuroeducational Institute, LLC and is not available in any other CE program.

Are you keeping
the water?

The mandate is coming. Your clients are already in the water. The only question is whether you are ready to keep it.

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Orchard Human Services, Inc. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7260. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Orchard Human Services, Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.