Choosing the Right Supervisor

I require an interview before beginning supervision so that we can both make sure we are a good fit for each other. Choosing a supervisor is important, and I want you to feel confident that you are working with someone who matches your goals, style, and clinical interests.

Just like finding the right therapist, finding the right supervisor matters. If you decide I am not the best fit for you, I encourage you to continue looking for someone who is. Do not give up on your professional goals because one supervisor was not the right match.

Professionally, I have worked in several different counseling settings, including a substance abuse intensive outpatient program (IOP), an inpatient (IP) mental health setting, a government-funded organization supporting survivors of sexual trauma, a group private practice, and a grief organization where I facilitated groups. These experiences have given me a broad understanding of the many ways people experience pain, healing, growth, and resilience.

Areas of Strength

I may be a strong fit for supervisees who are interested in:

• Sexual trauma

• Complex trauma

• LGBTQ+ affirming counseling

• Letter writing for trans & gender diverse clients

• EMDR

• Brainspotting

• Individual counseling

• Some couples counseling experience

Areas That May Not Be the Best Fit

I may not be the best supervisor for clinicians whose work is primarily focused on:

• Primary Group Counseling

• Children or under 14

• Play therapy

• Therapist wanting to mainly or only see couples

While I have some experience in these areas, they are not where I have the strongest background.

Communication and Availability

• We will have regularly scheduled meetings and I can be reached by email

• I require communication with your on-site supervisor

• I require that I sign off on hours once a month. This is so you will have record of some hours each month incase anything should happen to me you will not have to restart hours.

• I do not take on PLPCs who already have another LPC-S due to my pay structure

My Supervision Philosophy

I did not become a supervisor because I had all the answers. I became a supervisor because I remember, vividly, what it felt like to not have them — to sit across from my first client as a PLPC and feel the gap between what I'd learned in graduate school and what the room actually needed from me. That gap is where I believe real clinical growth happens, and it's the space I want to hold well for the counselors I supervise.

How I Believe Growth Happens

I don't think professional development moves in a straight line, and I try not to supervise as though it does. A PLPC doesn't graduate school competent and then simply accumulate more competence with each passing year. Growth loops back on itself — you master something, then a new client or a new life stage cracks it back open, and you're relearning it at a deeper level. I've lived this myself, from graduate coursework, to the disorientation of my first year as a PLPC, to the slow accumulation of clinical confidence as a licensed counselor, to now stepping into the role of supervisor myself. Each stage required me to unlearn something from the one before it. I expect the same nonlinear path from my supervisees, and I try to normalize the regressions, not just celebrate the milestones.

The Frameworks That Guide My Work

My supervisory practice is grounded in the Discrimination Model, which lets me flex between roles — teacher, counselor, consultant — depending on what a supervisee needs in a given moment, rather than supervising everyone the same way regardless of their developmental stage or the specific skill in front of us. Underneath that structure, I bring a person-centered, somatically-informed lens. I believe the supervisory relationship itself is a parallel process to the therapeutic one: if I can offer a PLPC genuine empathy, unconditional positive regard, and attunement to what's happening in their body as well as their case conceptualization, they are more likely to offer that same quality of presence to their clients.

I also bring my EMDR background into supervision, though carefully and with clear boundaries — supervision is not therapy. But I do believe most of us are working out of touchstone memories from childhood, and that we tend to repeat cycles until something interrupts them. When a PLPC gets activated by a client, stuck in a pattern with a caseload, or repeatedly drawn to (or avoidant of) certain presentations, I want to help them notice that without pathologizing it. Naming the cycle is often the first step to choosing something different, both for them and, eventually, for their clients.

How I Approach the Supervisory Relationship

I try to be transparent about what supervision with me looks like before a PLPC ever sits down with me. My expectations, my style, and my policies are documented on my website so there are no surprises. From there, we move into an interview — because supervision is a relationship, not just a signature, and both of us need to know it's a good fit before we commit to it. If we move forward, we finalize everything in a written supervision contract that spells out goals, expectations, and evaluation procedures in plain language. I lean into this structure specifically because I want to hold support and evaluation together, not choose one over the other. A PLPC deserves to feel safe enough to bring me their worst session of the week — and they deserve a supervisor honest enough to tell them when something isn't working.

My Commitment to Multicultural and Social Justice Practice

I don't think multicultural competence is a topic to cover once in supervision — I think it's a stance you take toward every case, every session, every supervisory conversation. I build this into the interview process itself, because I want a PLPC to know exactly what to expect from me before we begin. I share where I come from and how that shapes what I do and don't understand. I also ask directly: what is your background, and what do you think I might not understand — or need to understand — about doing this work with you and your clients? I would rather have that conversation early and imperfectly than avoid it and let it show up later as a blind spot in someone's clinical work.

My Vision for the Supervisees I Develop

I take seriously that I am a gatekeeper to this profession. That is not a role I hold lightly. My first responsibility is to the clients a PLPC will one day sit across from — and if I ever believe someone is not a good fit for this work, I will tell them so, directly, both in conversation and in writing. That honesty is a form of care, even when it doesn't feel like it in the moment.

But for the PLPCs who are the right fit, my hope for them is expansive. I want to watch someone come to me as a seed — unsure, still finding their theoretical footing, maybe a little scared — and support them until they grow into a huge, beautiful sunflower of a clinician: someone who knows exactly who they are in the room and isn't afraid to take up that space on behalf of their clients. I keep a living, treatment-plan-style document of each supervisee's goals, and I revisit and revise it as they grow, the same way a good treatment plan evolves with a client. Supervision, done well, should leave someone not just licensed, but genuinely more themselves.