Counselors can never engage in a sexual relationship with a client or a former client.

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Counselors are strictly prohibited from engaging in sexual relationships with current clients. However, ethical guidelines, such as those from the American Counseling Association, suggest that engaging in a sexual relationship with a former client may be permissible under very limited conditions and after a significant amount of time has passed, typically at least two years, to ensure the power differential has dissipated.

Counselors Can Never Engage in a Sexual Relationship with a Client