Clinical Supervision
Supporting your growth:
The best supervision happens how the best therapy happens — in relationship. I know, from personal experience, how important it is to have collaboration and personalization alongside structure as you’re finding your footing and growing as a clinician. Supervision should not feel like a mandatory experience to be endured in order to get to full licensure, but a space for you to explore and get guidance with safety and confidence.
I am a DOH-approved Licensed Mental Health Counseling Supervisor that provides clinical supervision for associate clinicians in Washington state. I strive to help you get comfortable with asking questions, feel grounded in your work and business, and build confidence in understanding clinical information so you can apply it with appropriate flexibility. We’re doing a lot more work here than punching the clock for those hours.
What Supervision with me is like:
I do things by the book, but I like to do a whole lot more than that. I deeply believe that we do our best learning and growing in relationship, when we are empowered with the clinical knowledge that we need, and when we prioritize taking care of ourselves in service of our clients and for longevity of being in a taxing field.
Case consultations, diagnostic criteria and conceptualization, assessments (where appropriate) and knowing when it is time to refer out due to clinical expertise.
Legal and ethical considerations that you need to always keep an eye on
Navigating crucial relationship dynamics specific to the therapist-client dynamic, including transference and countertransference and what to do about it.
Learning about modalities I regularly use and how to implement them in a way that feels authentic to your work (Some of these include Neuroscience-Informed CBT, Narrative Exposure Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), I-CBT, Attachment theory and implementation, somatic work, and psychodynamic work. Among many others…I am absolutely an eclectic therapist that believes it is my job to take all my clinical knowledge and apply what makes the most sense for each individual client.
Navigating and incorporating crucial pieces of context for each client into therapeutic work — this might include things like considerations of neuroscience for specific disorders, hormonal changes in women throughout the lifespan and within pregnancy/postpartum, FOO culture impacts, among many others.
Supervision with me encompasses:
Specific Support Areas:
I cover a lot of ground in supervision. We’ll be working through:
The essential elements of clinical supervision — I mean, this is literally the basis of the job so we’re definitely going to make sure we do this.
Increasing your clinical knowledge of different therapeutic modalities/interventions. If I know it or have a resource on it, I will pass it along. I don’t believe in gatekeeping or letting you struggle to figure it out on your own.
Logistics help: fine-tuning paperwork and documentation, marketing your practice, how to talk about your work so that clients want to work with you. I don’t do business consulting, but I’m happy to share what has helped me to build a successful private practice.
Acknowledging the larger (broken) systems at play so you can accurately keep your clients (and yourself) in appropriate context for growth.
Special attention to your experience so that we can make sure you are balancing your work and life demands in a sustainable way.
Supervision Specifics:
Who I supervise: Associate Clinicians in Washington State
How we meet: Virtually in a HIPAA-compliant Telehealth platform
Frequency:
Weekly, if I am your primary supervisor and/or a majority of your caseload is anxiety/OCD-specific and your other supervisor does not specialize in this area.
Monthly or biweekly, if I am supplementary supervision and not your primary supervisor.
Fees:
Individual: $150/hour and up, matching the rate you charge your clients for sessions
Dyads: $100/hour for each attendee