Supervision for therapists
Growing into the therapist you want to be.
As an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, I provide supervision for therapists working toward licensure as Marriage and Family Therapists, with a particular focus on clinicians interested in couples therapy, trauma, and relational work.
I believe therapy is an art, and like any art, becoming skilled requires practice. Good practice also requires feedback, reflection, correction, and the willingness to keep trying. Supervision should be a place where you can examine your clinical work honestly, make mistakes, receive meaningful feedback, and continue developing your own way of being a therapist.
Developing Your Compassionate Inner Supervisor
One of my primary goals in supervision is helping you develop a compassionate inner supervisor.
When you are sitting across from a client, your supervisor isn't in the room with you. In that moment, you have to be able to trust yourself: to notice what is happening in the room, draw on your clinical knowledge, recognize your own reactions, make a decision, and adjust when something isn't working.
That kind of confidence doesn't come from learning to always make the “right” clinical choice. It comes from developing the ability to reflect on your work with both honesty and compassion.
What am I noticing? What am I feeling? What might be happening relationally? What did I try? Did it work? What might I do differently next time?
Without turning those questions into: “Am I a bad therapist?”
Self-of-the-Therapist Work
Who you are matters in the therapy room.
Your history, identities, relationships, fears, strengths, triggers, values, and ways of connecting with others all shape how you experience your clients and how your clients experience you. This is especially important when working with trauma and couples, where powerful relational dynamics can emerge quickly.
Because of this, self-of-the-therapist work is a central part of my approach to supervision. We'll pay attention not only to what your clients are doing, but to what is happening inside of you and between you and your clients.
The goal isn't to eliminate your humanity from the therapy room. It's to understand yourself well enough that you can use your humanity intentionally.
Feedback Without Shame
Compassionate supervision doesn't mean avoiding difficult feedback.
I believe therapists need clear, direct feedback in order to grow. Sometimes that means identifying an intervention that didn't land, questioning a clinical decision, slowing down to examine something you missed, or practicing a different way of responding.
But shame is rarely a useful teacher.
My approach combines compassion with accountability. I want supervision to be a place where you can tolerate being imperfect, remain curious about your mistakes, and use feedback to become a more thoughtful and effective clinician.
Over time, my hope is that you internalize that process. You become increasingly able to evaluate your own work, recognize when you need consultation, make corrections, and trust yourself in the room.
That's the compassionate inner supervisor we're working toward.
Areas of Focus
My supervision may be an especially good fit if you're interested in developing your skills in:
- Couples and relationship therapy
- Trauma and relational trauma
- Systemic and relational approaches to therapy
- Self-of-the-therapist work
- Navigating challenging relational dynamics in session
- Building clinical confidence and developing your own therapeutic voice
- Receiving and integrating direct, compassionate clinical feedback