Clinical Supervision for LICSWAs

My Approach to Supervision

Directive. Curious. Compassionate.

These are the qualities that guide how I show up as a supervisor.

Directive

I believe supervision should give you something you can take with you into the therapy room. I’ll offer clinical guidance, psychoeducation, and perspective when it is useful, while helping you identify specific areas of growth that you can practice both in and outside of your sessions.

Curious

We’ll get curious about what is happening in the therapeutic relationship—including the moments that feel challenging, confusing, or sticky. We’ll pay attention to your own experiences, responses, and patterns so that you can become more aware of what you bring into the room and how it shapes your work with clients.

Compassionate

Clinical growth requires a willingness to look honestly at ourselves; shame is not a part of that process. Supervision is a space where you can bring the things you’re struggling with, as well as the things you’re doing well. We’ll celebrate your strengths while identifying the growth edges that are asking for your attention.

Developing Your Clinical Presence

Much of therapy involves teaching clients how to utilize the therapy space. In supervision, we’ll explore the kind of space you want to create for your clients—and how you can step more fully into your power to help shape that space.

We’ll pay attention to your relationship with power: how you experience the power you hold as a therapist, how you can practice using that power intentionally, and how you can make room for your client to bring their own power into the relationship.

I believe therapy is something we co-create. Your role is not to have all of the answers or to take responsibility for your client’s process. Rather, supervision can help you develop the awareness, confidence, and clinical skills to guide the therapeutic relationship with greater intention.

What We Might Explore

Supervision may include:

• Clinical challenges or interactions that feel stuck

• Developing greater confidence in your clinical decision-making

• Building awareness of your own responses and experiences in the therapy room

• Strengthening your ability to attune to clients while maintaining your own grounding

• Developing and refining clinical interventions

• Understanding the therapeutic relationship and the role of power within it

• Identifying patterns that emerge across your clinical work

• Practicing new skills and interventions directly in supervision

• Celebrating what is already working and identifying meaningful growth edges

At times, supervision will involve direct teaching and psychoeducation. At other times, we may slow down and explore your own experience so you can better notice and attend to it when you are with your clients.

Clinical Approaches

My supervision is informed by several therapeutic approaches and methods, including:

Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Somatic approaches
STAIR (Self-Trust and Integrated Resilience)
Mindfulness principles

I am a Level Three trained STAIR therapist, and I incorporate these perspectives when they are useful to understanding the clinician, the client, and the therapeutic relationship.

Practice, Not Just Conversation

I incorporate direct practice into supervision.

When there is a clinical skill you want to strengthen, we can practice it together in the room. You might try an intervention, experiment with a different way of approaching a client interaction, or practice staying connected to your own experience while remaining present with the client.

The goal is not simply to talk about becoming a different kind of clinician. It is to give you opportunities to experience and practice new ways of working so you can bring them into your sessions with greater confidence and intention.

Individual & Group Supervision

I offer both individual and group clinical supervision for LICSWAs.

Whether you are looking for the depth and individualized attention of one-on-one supervision or the collaborative learning that comes from being in a group with other clinicians, supervision can be a space to continue developing your clinical voice and growing into the therapist you want to be.

If you’re looking for supervision that is thoughtful, relational, and grounded in both clinical skill and self-awareness, I’d love to connect.