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Limited research exists on workplace aggression within the counseling profession despite its negative ramifications for clinical practice. The authors conducted a descriptive study to explore the prevalence and common forms of workplace aggression experienced by a sample of practicing counselors (N = 117). More than 50% of counselors reported the experience of at least 1 aggressive act, and nearly 25% met the threshold for workplace aggression. The authors discuss the implications of these results and consider workplace aggression's incongruity with professional counseling values.

This article is based on the 2nd‐place winning entry to the 2016–2017 American Counseling Association Graduate Student Ethics Competition and includes a fictional case study of a counselor trainee whose personal beliefs conflict with her client's goals, and of her doctoral supervisor who is reticent to seek consultation. The counselor values‐based conflict model (Kocet & Herlihy, ) is used to generate an ethical resolution for the dilemma. Implications for counselors, supervisors, and counselor educators are discussed.

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