Ellen Luepker and Clay Sankey continue to provide consultations to MSCSW members who have questions and dilemmas related to clinical/ethical/legal issues. One hour of consultation per year is free as a MSCSW member benefit.
Clay has been doing most of the consultations lately due to Ellen working on the 3rd edition of her book on record keeping and traveling more this summer.
Ellen and Clay continue to work together as a team and provide the society with much needed advice and clarification on ethical and legal issues.
About the Law Clinic experts:
Clay Sankey was born and raised in Minneapolis and started his career in human services as a parole officer, working at the Court Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Toledo, Ohio and the Minnesota State Prison. He has worked in residential treatment, outpatient psychotherapy clinics and was a founding partner in the River City Mental Health Center where he worked for 19 years. Since 2004 he has been in solo private practice in the east metro. He has a diverse, full time, general practice providing psychotherapy, family therapy, supervision and consultation. He has been on the law committee with Ellen longer than he can remember and is a former Secretary, Vice President and President of MSCSW.
Ellen Luepker is both a licensed psychologist and a social worker in private practice in Minneapolis. Ellen was honored by the National Academy of Practice as a Distinguished Practitioner and the National Association of Social Workers as a Social Work Pioneer. She is a previous past president of MSCSW and a legal advisor to the past Clinical Social Work Federation. In addition to being a practitioner, Ellen is a Psychiatry Instructor in the University of Minnesota Medical School.
