Clinical Supervision

Quality supervision has the ability to help clarify, question, and sharpen your clinical practice, shining a light on your blind spots and strengths. My approach to supervision is as a mentor, educator, and collaborator. I want supervisees to feel confident and competent with their clinical, administrative, and life skills.

I strive to provide supervision that is rooted in integrity, for yourself and your clients. Being a practitioner of mental health can be solitary work and taxing on the psyche. Supervision offers a space for supervisees to be tended too, learning how to integrate into this field while staying anchored in yourself.

Being a therapist involves both client facing work and all the behind-the-scenes admin work. I provide supervision that supports the broad range of skills needed to be a successful therapist.

Supervision is --

  • Clinical skills: case conceptualization, treatment planning, intervention implementation, session structure and arc, rapport building, coregulation and grounding techniques, learning new resources, psychoeducation, knowing clinical limits

  • Systems building: the admin that exist behind every session including paperwork, notes, documentation, insurance, billing, follow up emails, inquiry responses, schedule

  • Professional development: asking questions, figuring out what you don’t know, what you want to know, what you do know, seeking continuing education, learning from supervisors/others

  • Boundaries between work and life: finding the balance that is right for you, how to manage time, sense of urgency, personal and client needs, time off, (counter) transference

My experience is in working with children, adolescents, and their families. I have 10+ years of experience in education prior to shifting to crisis intervention and clinical social work. My work with young people is grounded in working with parents and families.

I prioritize supervisees whose primary clients are children and adolescents, or clients presenting with gender and sexuality exploration or neurodiversity.

Supervision Fees

Vermont requires all unlicensed Masters Level practitioners seeking licensure to be rostered as non-licensed, non-certified psychotherapists and to receive 1 hour of supervision for every 30 client contact hours.

I provide clinical supervision either in-person or telehealth. I offer supervised billing to a limited number of supervisees.

  • $150/hour for individual clinical supervision. Sliding scale is available.

  • Supervised billing services are available for a monthly fee and based on size of case load.  This cost includes EHR subscription, credit card processing fees, and time spent on billing, dealing with insurance, managing payments, documentation review and constructive feedback, logistical questions and support, etc.

Clinical Supervision Interest Form

Access

I believe in affordable access to mental health services which requires challenging the status quo of a capitalist system. A capitalist system determines our financial access and value by the power of the identities that we hold, including race, class, perceived gender identity, sexual orientation, disability/ability, immigration status, primary language, and many other systems of imposed hierarchy. There is no exact formula that determines what each of us can afford, because income is not the only determining factor in one’s financial access.

To attend to the range of financial access, I provide a sliding scale for clinical supervision (this does not include supervised billing services). A sliding scale is used to encourage people to access and pay for a service according to their available resources. Those with greater financial privilege contribute more, allowing those with less financial access to pay according to their means. This creates sustainability for the business and accessibility for the clients, and encourages us to interrogate one’s relationship to class.

Use the chart below as guidance for what you are able to invest in your therapeutic journey (inspired by Alexis J Cunningfolk Green Bottle Sliding Scale and the chart for monthly redistribution developed by AWARE LA).  

$100

The low end of the scale is for those who:

  • are unable to or struggle to meet basic needs

  • have little or no expendable income

  • support dependents (child, parents, or anyone relying on their money)

  • have significant debt that interferes with being able to meet basic needs

  • don’t have saving

  • have significant chronic illness that impacts ability to earn money

  • has less access to money because of abuse

  • are formerly incarcerated

  • has immigration related expenses

  • are unemployed or underemployed

  • are unable to access healthcare

$125

The middle of the scale is for those who:

  • are able to meet their basic needs and have some expendable income

  • may stress about meeting basic needs but still regularly achieve them

  • may have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs

  • own or lease a car

  • are employed

  • have some expendable income

  • can take a vacation annually or every few years without financial burden

$150

The high end of the scale is for those who:

  • are comfortably able to meet basic needs with ample expendable income

  • have few or no dependents

  • have savings, investments, money, and or/retirement accounts

  • are employed, work part-time by choice, or do not need to work to meet their needs

  • have more possible earning power (even if they aren’t using it now) from: being able-bodied, having a college degree, social networks, family connections, gender, race, etc.

  • own the home they live in or rent in a higher-end property

  • travel recreationally

  • are able to access healthcare or have secure health insurance