My View of Clinical Supervision
Clinical supervision is more than meeting a requirement for licensure. It is a relationship and a space to develop your clinical judgment, explore questions and uncertainty, strengthen your skills, and grow into your own identity as a counselor.
My approach to supervision is collaborative, developmental, and grounded in the belief that there is no single “right” way to become a good therapist. You bring your own experiences, identities, strengths, questions, and ways of understanding people to this work. Together, we explore how those intersect with your clinical training, your clients, and the systems and communities in which you practice.
My Approach to Clinical Supervision
I tend to move among three roles in supervision: teacher, consultant, and counselor.
As a teacher, I may offer information, introduce clinical frameworks, help you strengthen case conceptualization, or connect what you are experiencing with theory, ethics, neuroscience, trauma-informed practice, or other areas of clinical knowledge.
As a consultant, I work alongside you as you think through cases, consider different perspectives, identify possibilities, and develop confidence in your own clinical judgment. My goal is not for you to learn to practice therapy exactly as I do. It is to help you discover how you practice therapy thoughtfully, ethically, and authentically.
And sometimes, the work calls for the counselor hat. Becoming a therapist can bring our own parts into the room—self-doubt, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, fear of getting it wrong, emotional reactions to clients, or experiences from our own lives. Supervision can provide space to notice and explore what is coming up for you while maintaining the important distinction between supervision and your own personal therapy.
The Supervisory Relationship
I believe the quality of the supervisory relationship matters. I want supervision to be a place where you can bring the cases that went beautifully and the ones that didn't; where you can say “I don't know,” change your mind, make mistakes, ask difficult questions, and talk openly about what is happening in the room.
Our work also includes attention to culture, identity, power, privilege, relationships, community, and the larger systems that shape both clients' experiences and our work as counselors. Rather than treating these as separate topics, we consider them part of understanding people in context.
Supervision may include case consultation, skill development, ethical decision-making, professional identity development, exploration of counselor-client dynamics, and reflection on your own responses to the work.
Like my approach to counseling, supervision is collaborative and invitational. The goal is not to create another version of me. It is to help you become more fully yourself as a counselor.
Logistics
Individual Clinical Supervision rate is $120 per 1-hour session.
Online sessions available for Associate PCC, CSW, & MFT in California.
Group Clinical Supervision rate is $60 per 2-hour session. CURRENTLY FULL