The ACA Code of Ethics is the American Counseling Association's statement of what counselors owe their clients, and for many licensed counselors it is also the standard their state board measures them against. Most summaries stop at the nine section titles. This guide is written for counselors in private practice: what each section covers, in our own words and with section numbers; the standards a solo or small practice uses every week; how the Code connects to your state board's rules; exactly where the revision stands; and a checklist you can copy.
Status on October 25, 2026: the 2014 edition is still the current ACA Code of Ethics. ACA says a revised code will be published in fall 2026. The details, with sources, are in the section on the most recent version below.
What the 2014 ACA Code of Ethics is
ACA has published a code of ethics since 1961, with new editions in 1974, 1981, 1988, 1995, 2005 and 2014 (ACA ethics archive). The 2014 edition is a single document with five parts:
- A preamble naming five core professional values and six ethical principles.
- A purpose statement, which says the Code sets out the ethical obligations of ACA members and is the basis for handling ethics complaints against them.
- Nine sections, A to I, each opening with a short introduction that describes what counselors aim for, followed by numbered standards. A standard is cited by section, number and letter: A.2.b is the second standard under informed consent in Section A.
- A glossary of terms such as "bartering", "distance counseling" and "virtual relationship".
- An index of every standard.
Two points shape how the Code works in practice. First, it is an ethics document, not a statute. The preamble says that a breach of its standards "does not necessarily constitute legal liability or violation of the law" (ACA Code of Ethics, Preamble). It gains legal force when a state licensing board writes it into its rules, which many boards have done (more on that below). Second, not knowing it is no excuse: "Lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of an ethical responsibility is not a defense against a charge of unethical conduct" (I.1.a).
The five core values and six principles
The core professional values, in our words: helping people grow across the life span; honoring diversity and working from a multicultural approach; promoting social justice; protecting the integrity of the counselor and client relationship; and practicing competently and ethically.
The six ethical principles behind the standards:
- Autonomy:the client's right to direct their own life.
- Nonmaleficence:avoiding actions that cause harm.
- Beneficence:working for the good of the client and society.
- Justice:treating people fairly and equitably.
- Fidelity:keeping promises and honoring the trust a professional relationship carries.
- Veracity:being truthful with everyone you deal with professionally.
When no standard fits a situation, these principles are where your reasoning starts.
Is there an ACA Code of Ethics 2025 or 2026? The most recent version
There is no official 2024 or 2025 edition. Files online labeled "ACA Code of Ethics 2024" or "2025" are not ACA editions; download the Code from counseling.org. The most recent version in force is the 2014 Code.
A revision is well under way. Here is what each official source says, read on October 25, 2026:
- The timeline.An NBCC newsletter article published January 30, 2026, drawing on ACA's chief of professional practice, describes a review phase in 2023 and 2024, an Ethics Revision Task Force that began work in January 2025, a public comment period in spring 2026, and a goal of presenting the final code to ACA's Governing Board for adoption in fall 2026 (NBCC).
- The draft and comments.ACA posted a draft "2026 ACA Code of Ethics" for public comment on its Counseling Nexus site; the page gave a comment deadline of April 17, 2026. Today that page says the Task Force is reviewing the comments, that the draft is unavailable, and that "the final version of the ACA Code of Ethics will be published here and on the ACA website in the Fall of 2026" (ACA Counseling Nexus).
- What applies now.ACA's ethics page says that until the new code is adopted, "the 2014 Code of Ethics remains the current version" and members should keep following it (ACA ethics resources). The same page still says ACA expects to open public comment "in early 2026", wording from before the comment period ran.
- Adoption.We found no announcement that ACA has adopted the new code as of October 25, 2026.
What is expected to change: the NBCC article says the new code will be "a shorter, more succinct core document" paired with supplemental guidelines that can be updated more often, covering topics such as artificial intelligence, record keeping, gatekeeping and emerging technologies. The core values and ethical principles are not expected to change.
The draft's table of contents, as still listed on the Counseling Nexus page, has ten sections instead of nine: A, The Counseling Relationship; B, Confidentiality and Privacy; C, Professional Responsibility; D, Relationships With Other Professionals; E, Evaluation, Assessment, and Interpretation; F, Supervision, Training, and Teaching; G, Research and Publication; H, Telehealth and Technology; I, Forensic Practice; and J, Resolving Ethical Issues. The final version may differ, and standard numbers will move.
What to do in the meantime:
- Keep following the 2014 Code.
- When your forms or policies cite a standard, include the edition year ("2014 ACA Code of Ethics, A.2.b") so the reference stays accurate after the change.
- When the new code is published, re-read your informed consent form, telehealth consent, social media policy and website against it, and check which edition your state board applies.
The nine sections of the ACA Code of Ethics, A to I
Each summary below is in our own words. Section numbers are from the 2014 Code.
Section A: The Counseling Relationship (A.1 to A.12)
The largest section and the one private practice lives in. It covers client welfare and records (A.1), informed consent (A.2), clients who also see other professionals (A.3), avoiding harm and not imposing your values (A.4), prohibited relationships (A.5), managing boundaries (A.6), advocacy (A.7), multiple clients such as couples (A.8), group work (A.9), fees and business practices (A.10), termination and referral (A.11), and abandonment (A.12).
Section B: Confidentiality and Privacy (B.1 to B.7)
What you keep private, when you may or must disclose, and how. It covers explaining the limits of confidentiality, exceptions such as serious and foreseeable harm and legal requirements, sharing with staff, teams and insurers, groups and families, clients who lack capacity to consent, records (B.6) and case consultation (B.7).
Section C: Professional Responsibility (C.1 to C.8)
Your duties as a professional in public: knowing the Code and the law, practicing within your competence, continuing education, impairment, planning for your own incapacity or death (C.2.h), advertising (C.3), stating your credentials accurately (C.4), nondiscrimination (C.5), public statements and media (C.6), and using treatments grounded in theory or evidence (C.7).
Section D: Relationships With Other Professionals (D.1 to D.2)
Working with colleagues, employers, employees and interdisciplinary teams, and providing consultation. In private practice this applies when you coordinate care with a prescriber, hire staff or offer consultation to another clinician.
Section E: Evaluation, Assessment, and Interpretation (E.1 to E.13)
Using assessment instruments competently, informed consent for assessment, diagnosis (including the option to refrain from a diagnosis that would cause harm, E.5.d), choosing and administering instruments, scoring and interpretation, test security, and forensic evaluation. One rule worth knowing: you do not evaluate current or former clients for forensic purposes (E.13.c).
Section F: Supervision, Training, and Teaching (F.1 to F.11)
Duties of supervisors, supervisees and counselor educators. If you supervise associates or pre-licensed counselors in your practice, this section applies to you, including telling clients how supervision affects confidentiality (F.1.c).
Section G: Research and Publication (G.1 to G.5)
Research ethics and publishing. For a private practice counselor who writes or presents, the key standard is G.5.a: use a client's information in a case example only with the client's agreement, or after changing it enough to hide their identity.
Section H: Distance Counseling, Technology, and Social Media (H.1 to H.6)
Telehealth, electronic records, your website and social media: competence and the law (H.1), extra informed consent items (H.2), verifying who you're talking to (H.3), the distance relationship (H.4), records and websites (H.5), and social media (H.6).
Section I: Resolving Ethical Issues (I.1 to I.3)
How to handle ethical dilemmas and suspected violations: knowing the standards and the law, using a decision-making model, conflicts between ethics and law, approaching a colleague informally first when no substantial harm has occurred, reporting, consultation and cooperating with ethics committees.
The standards private-practice counselors use most
The sections above are the map. These are the standards that come up every week in a solo or small practice, with what each asks you to do.
Informed consent (A.2, H.2)
The Code treats consent as a process, not a signature. Counselors review rights and responsibilities with clients "in writing and verbally" and document consent discussions as therapy goes on (A.2.a). A.2.b lists what clients need to know, which makes a useful outline for your consent form:
- The purposes, goals, techniques, procedures, limitations, risks and benefits of your services.
- Your qualifications, credentials, relevant experience and approach.
- What happens to their care if you become incapacitated or die.
- The role of technology in your services.
- What a diagnosis means for them and how tests and reports will be used.
- Your fees and billing, including what happens if they don't pay.
- Confidentiality and its limits, including who else (a supervisor, a team) is involved.
- Their right to clear information about their records, to take part in planning, and to refuse a service or a change in approach, with the consequences explained.
Use plain language and arrange an interpreter when needed (A.2.c), seek the assent of minors and others who cannot consent (A.2.d), and explain to mandated clients what will be shared and with whom before you start (A.2.e). When your role changes, for example from individual to couples counseling, get consent again (A.6.d). Our informed consent example turns these points into a template you can copy, and the therapy intake form guide covers what to ask before the first session.
Confidentiality and its limits (B.1 to B.4, B.7)
- Tell clients the limits of confidentiality at the start and again as they become relevant (B.1.d, B.2.a).
- The duty to keep information private gives way when disclosure is needed to protect clients or identified others from serious and foreseeable harm, or when the law requires it. Consult a colleague when you're unsure whether an exception applies (B.2.a).
- If a court orders records, seek the client's written consent or ask to limit the disclosure (B.2.d), and reveal only what is essential (B.2.e).
- Share with insurers only when the client has authorized it (B.3.d). Protect information sent through any medium, including email and text (B.3.e).
- Discuss confidential information only where privacy is reasonably assured (B.3.c). For a counselor working from home, that includes who can overhear your sessions.
- In couples and family work, define who the client is and put your agreement on confidentiality in writing (B.4.b).
- When you consult a colleague, leave out anything that could identify the client unless they agreed (B.7.b).
State law, not the Code, decides when you must warn, report or release, so the Code's exceptions point you back to your state's rules.
Records and documentation (A.1.b, B.6, H.5.a)
- Keep records sufficient and timely enough to support care, accurate about progress and services, and note any amendment properly (A.1.b). Our DAP notes examples show notes written to that standard.
- Keep records secure, in any medium, with access limited to authorized people (B.6.b).
- Get the client's permission before recording a session or letting anyone observe one (B.6.c, B.6.d).
- Give competent clients reasonable access to their records. Limit access only with compelling evidence that it would cause harm, and document why (B.6.e). Help them understand what they read (B.6.f).
- Get written permission before transferring records to a third party, unless an exception applies (B.6.g).
- Keep records after therapy ends as federal and state law require, and dispose of them in a way that protects confidentiality (B.6.h). The Code sets no number of years; your state does.
- Name a colleague or records custodian and write a plan for your clients and records if you become incapacitated, die, retire or close your practice (C.2.h, B.6.i). Many counselors call this a professional will.
- Tell clients how electronic records are kept, including the security used and how long archived records are kept (H.5.a).
Distance counseling, technology and social media (H)
- Two sets of laws. You may be subject to the laws of both your location and the client's place of residence, and clients should know their rights and limits when you work across state lines (H.1.b). The Counseling Compact is one route to practicing in other member states.
- Extra consent items for telehealth (H.2.a): your distance counseling credentials, the physical location of your practice and your contact information; risks and benefits; what happens if the technology fails and your backup method; your expected response time; emergency procedures for when you're unavailable; time zone differences; cultural or language differences; the possibility that insurance won't cover it; and your social media policy.
- Limits of electronic privacy. Tell clients that others, authorized or not, may access electronic records and transmissions (H.2.b, H.2.c).
- Security. Use "current encryption standards" that meet applicable legal requirements (H.2.d). For HIPAA, that usually means a Business Associate Agreement with every vendor that handles client information; see our guides to Google Meet and Gmail.
- Verify identity at the start of distance work and throughout, for example with a code word (H.3).
- Fit. Check that the client can use the technology (H.4.c). If distance counseling isn't working, consider meeting in person or help the client find other services (H.4.d).
- Social media. Keep personal and professional profiles separate (H.6.a), explain your social media policy as part of consent (H.6.b), don't view a client's social media without consent (H.6.c), and never disclose confidential information on public social media (H.6.d).
Fees, bartering and gifts (A.10)
- Self-referral. If you also work at an agency, don't refer its clients to your private practice unless the agency's policy allows it, and then tell clients about their other options (A.10.a).
- No referral payments. No fee splitting, and no commissions, rebates or other payment for referring clients (A.10.b). If any business arrangement pays someone because a client was referred, ask an attorney or ethics consultant before you sign.
- Setting fees. Consider clients' financial situation and your locality; if your usual fee would cause undue hardship, you may adjust it where the law allows or help the client find affordable services (A.10.c). Our sliding fee schedule example shows one way to do that.
- Collections. If you might use a collection agency or legal action for unpaid fees, say so in your informed consent documents, warn the client in good time and give them a chance to pay (A.10.d).
- Bartering is allowed only if the client asks, it causes no exploitation or harm, and it is accepted practice among professionals in your community. Consider cultural meaning, discuss concerns, and put the agreement in a clear written contract (A.10.e).
- Gifts. Weigh the relationship, the gift's value, the client's motive and your own motive for accepting or declining (A.10.f).
Your website, advertising and credentials (C.3, C.4, H.5)
- Describe your credentials accurately, without anything false, misleading or deceptive (C.3.a).
- Don't solicit testimonials from current or former clients or from anyone "who may be vulnerable to undue influence", and discuss and get permission for any testimonial you use (C.3.b).
- Don't use your employer to recruit clients for your practice (C.3.d).
- Claim only qualifications you have completed and licenses that are current and in good standing (C.4.a, C.4.b). Don't call yourself "Dr." in a counseling context unless your doctorate is in counseling or a closely related field, and don't use "ABD" to suggest competence (C.4.d).
- Separate current from former association memberships (C.4.f).
- Blog posts, videos and talks should rest on professional literature and must not suggest that a counseling relationship has started (C.6.c). Case stories need the client's agreement or enough changes to hide their identity (G.5.a).
- If you have a professional website or offer distance counseling, link to the relevant licensure and certification boards (H.5.b), check regularly that your links work (H.5.c), and make the site accessible to people with disabilities, with translation where feasible (H.5.d).
Our article on marketing for therapists and our therapist website examples apply these rules to real marketing choices. If you are building a site, you can browse the practice website designs on TranqBay and plan where your license number, your board's link and your fees will go before you write a word of copy.
Boundaries and multiple relationships (A.5, A.6)
- Prohibited. Sexual or romantic relationships with current clients, their romantic partners or their family members, in person or online (A.5.a). Counseling someone you had a sexual or romantic relationship with (A.5.b). Counseling friends or family members you can't be objective with (A.5.d). A personal virtual relationship with a current client, such as friending or following them on a personal account (A.5.e).
- Former clients. Sexual or romantic relationships with former clients, their partners or family members are prohibited for 5 years after the last professional contact. After that, you must still think it through and document whether it could be exploitive or harmful, and stay out of it if it could (A.5.c). Your state's rules may be stricter.
- Previous relationships. Before accepting someone you already know, such as a member of your community or professional group, weigh the risks and benefits and take precautions: informed consent, consultation, supervision and documentation (A.6.a). This comes up often in small towns and close communities.
- Extending boundaries. Attending a client's wedding or graduation, buying a client's product or service, or visiting a client's family member in the hospital calls for the same weighing and precautions (A.6.b).
- Write it down first. When you extend a boundary, document the reason, the expected benefit and the possible consequences before the interaction when you can, and if harm happens, show that you tried to remedy it (A.6.c).
- Avoid other nonprofessional relationships with former clients when they could cause harm (A.6.e).
Ending therapy, referrals and coverage (A.11, A.12, C.2)
- If a client's needs are outside your competence, don't start or continue; suggest appropriate referrals (A.11.a). Don't refer a client away solely because of your personal values (A.11.b).
- End counseling when the client no longer needs help, isn't benefiting or is being harmed by continuing. You may also end it if you're at risk of harm from the client or someone close to them, or when fees aren't paid as agreed. Offer pretermination counseling and recommend other providers when needed (A.11.c).
- When you transfer a client, complete the clinical and administrative steps and keep communication open with the client and the new provider (A.11.d).
- "Counselors do not abandon or neglect clients in counseling" (A.12): arrange coverage for vacations, illness and the time after termination.
- Watch for signs of your own impairment and limit or pause your work if needed (C.2.g). Our piece on therapist burnout covers the warning signs.
A private practice ethics checklist (copy it)
Paste this into your practice manual and review it once a year, and again when ACA publishes the new code. Section numbers refer to the 2014 ACA Code of Ethics.
How the ACA Code relates to your state board's rules
Two separate systems can hold you to the Code. ACA handles ethics complaints against its own active members (ACA ethics resources). Your state licensing board disciplines licensees under its own law and rules, which may or may not include the ACA Code. Boards write it in very differently:
- Oregon names the edition.Oregon's board "adopts the 2014 American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics as the code of professional conduct" for professional counselors and marriage and family therapists, and a violation is grounds for discipline (OAR 833-100-0011).
- North Carolina takes later editions too.The North Carolina board adopts the ACA Code by reference "including subsequent amendments and editions" (21 NCAC 53 .0102).
- Texas writes its own rules.Texas sets out its own ethical requirements for licensed professional counselors in its administrative code (22 Tex. Admin. Code 681.41).
Don't rely on old lists. ACA's own list of boards that adopted the Code is dated 2010 and counts 19 of 52 jurisdictions; it lists Oregon as "No", yet Oregon's rule adopting the 2014 Code took effect January 1, 2018 (ACA 2010 list, PDF). Read your board's current rules.
The wording matters for the revision. A rule that names the 2014 edition may keep pointing to it until the board amends the rule; a rule that includes later editions may pick up the new code once ACA adopts it. Which standard your board applies on a given date is a question for the board or an attorney.
Three more points:
- When ethics and law conflict, state your commitment to the Code and try to resolve the conflict; if you can't, you may follow the law (I.1.c).
- HIPAA and state privacy laws are legal duties of their own. The Code's technology standards point to "applicable legal requirements" (H.2.d) without spelling them out.
- Other codes can apply at the same time. National Certified Counselors also follow the NBCC Code of Ethics (dated May 2023, revised August 24, 2023). If you hold two licenses, each board's rules apply to you.
A therapist code of ethics: which code applies to you
"Therapist" is not one profession, so there is no single therapist code of ethics. The code that applies depends on your license:
- Licensed counselors (LPC, LMHC, LPCC, LCPC and similar titles): the ACA Code of Ethics, plus the NBCC Code if you hold the NCC.
- Psychologists: the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, effective 2003 and amended in 2010 and 2017.
- Social workers: the NASW Code of Ethics.
- Marriage and family therapists: the AAMFT Code of Ethics, which AAMFT revised effective January 1, 2026.
In every case, your state board's rules are what your license answers to.
When you face an ethical dilemma
The Code doesn't prescribe one decision model, but it expects you to use a credible one and to document it as appropriate (I.1.b). ACA's Practitioner's Guide to Ethical Decision Making offers a seven-step model. In short: name the problem, check the Code, work out what kind of dilemma it is (and consult), list possible courses of action, weigh the consequences and choose one, test your choice, then act on it.
- Consult. Talk to colleagues, a supervisor or ACA's ethics staff when you're unsure (C.2.e, I.2.c). ACA's ethics consultation service answers members' questions, usually within three business days, and is not a real-time hotline.
- Document the question, who you consulted, the options you weighed and why you chose what you did.
- Concerns about a colleague: if no substantial harm has occurred, try to resolve it with them informally first, when that doesn't breach confidentiality; otherwise, take it to the appropriate ethics committee, certification body or licensing board (I.2.a, I.2.b).
- Your professional liability insurer may also offer a risk-management line; check your policy.
How this works in TranqBay
TranqBay is practice software for therapists in private practice. It doesn't make a practice ethical; that part is yours. It does give the paperwork behind several standards a place to live:
- Consent and releases (A.2, H.2.a, B.6.g).The form library has ready-made templates you send to a client for a session, including consent to treat, telehealth consent and release of information, alongside intake forms, the PHQ-9 and the GAD-7. The client fills them in online and the answers wait with the session. Edit the wording to match your own policies and your state's rules, and still go over consent out loud, as A.2.a asks. TranqBay doesn't score the PHQ-9 or GAD-7 automatically; you score and interpret them (E.9).
- Telehealth (H.2.d).Video sessions are HIPAA-ready, and TranqBay signs a Business Associate Agreement. The H.2.a items, such as your backup plan and emergency procedures, still belong in your telehealth consent.
- Records (A.1.b, B.6.a).Session notes can be written in BIRP, DAP, SOAP or GIRP format, or as a blank note. The structured formats are part of the advanced note templates, which some plans include.
- Your website and booking (C.3, C.4, H.5.b, A.2.b).A practice website with online booking is where you state your credentials, link to your licensing board and show your fees before anyone books. What goes on it is your choice, so use the website section of the checklist above.
What to check with an attorney or ethics consultant
The Code is national; the answers to these questions depend on your state and your situation:
- Which edition of the ACA Code your board applies, especially after ACA adopts the new code.
- Your state's rules on relationships with former clients, which may be stricter than the Code's 5 years.
- Your state's duty-to-warn, mandated reporting and court-order rules (B.2).
- How long your state requires you to keep records, and for minors (B.6.h).
- Whether bartering, sliding fees or fee changes are allowed under your state law and any insurer contract (A.10.c, A.10.e).
- Seeing clients who live or travel in another state, by license or through the Counseling Compact (H.1.b).
- Any business arrangement that pays for referrals (A.10.b).
Frequently asked questions
What is the most recent ACA Code of Ethics?
The 2014 ACA Code of Ethics. As of October 25, 2026, ACA's ethics page says it "remains the current version" until ACA's board adopts the new code, and ACA says the revised code will be published in fall 2026.
Is there an ACA Code of Ethics 2025?
No. There is no 2024 or 2025 edition. A draft "2026" code went out for public comment in spring 2026, but it is not in force and the draft is no longer public.
How many sections does the ACA Code of Ethics have?
Nine, labeled A to I: the counseling relationship; confidentiality and privacy; professional responsibility; relationships with other professionals; evaluation, assessment and interpretation; supervision, training and teaching; research and publication; distance counseling, technology and social media; and resolving ethical issues. The 2026 draft listed ten.
What are the ACA's five core values and six ethical principles?
The values: human development across the life span, honoring diversity, social justice, the integrity of the counseling relationship, and competent, ethical practice. The principles: autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, fidelity and veracity.
Is the ACA Code of Ethics legally binding?
Not by itself. ACA enforces it through ethics complaints against its members. It becomes enforceable against your license when your state board adopts it into its rules, as Oregon and North Carolina have.
Do I have to follow it if I'm not an ACA member?
ACA can only act on complaints against its members. But if your state board has adopted the Code, it applies to your license whether or not you belong to ACA. If your board hasn't, its own rules apply; read them alongside the Code.
How long must a counselor wait before dating a former client?
The 2014 Code prohibits sexual or romantic relationships with former clients, their partners or family members for 5 years after the last professional contact, and even after that you must document whether the relationship could be exploitive or harmful (A.5.c). Some state rules go further.
Can a counselor accept gifts or barter for services?
Gifts aren't banned; weigh the relationship, the gift's value and both people's motives (A.10.f). Bartering is allowed only when the client asks, it causes no harm or exploitation, it is accepted practice in your community, and the agreement is in writing (A.10.e).
Where can I get help with an ethics question?
ACA members can use ACA's ethics consultation service. Colleagues, a supervisor, your state board and your liability insurer are other options; for legal questions, an attorney who knows mental health law.
Start with the 2014 Code, and get ready for the new one
For now, the 2014 ACA Code of Ethics is the one to follow, and most of what it asks of a private practice comes down to clear paperwork and a few habits: a complete consent form, a telehealth consent with a backup and emergency plan, secure records with a named custodian, honest marketing and documented boundary decisions. Copy the checklist, check your state board's rule, and put a reminder in your calendar to review both when ACA publishes the revised code.
If your website is on that list, look through the practice website designs and the booking page your clients would use, and plan where your license, your board's link and your fees will sit. When you're ready to set up your practice, you can join TranqBay as a provider.
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