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The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision: A Modern Model for Private Practice and Community Mental Health

Enroll in the Online Self-Study and complete training on your own schedule.
1.5 CE Credits available for behavioral health clinicians

Clinical supervision needs have evolved over the years for both supervisors and supervisees. Join Khara in exploring a modern approach to clinical supervision and mental health leadership, inspired by community mental health and embraced by private practice clinicians dedicated to shaping the next generation of clinicians and mental health leaders. Through this training, supervisors will recognize ethical dilemmas that impact supervision needs in community mental health and private practice settings, while identifying various roles to support supervisees with their client work. By exploring a modern model of clinical supervision, we can become more effective leaders of clinicians and mental health teams called to serve clients of diverse backgrounds through empowerment and empathy.

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Clinical supervision needs have evolved over the years for both supervisors and supervisees. This course explores a modern approach to clinical supervision and mental health leadership, inspired by community mental health settings and embraced by private practice clinicians dedicated to shaping the next generation of clinicians and mental health leaders.

Upon completion of this training professionals will be able to do the following:

  • Describe ethical dilemmas that impact supervision needs in community mental health and private practice settings.
  • Identify the roles of a supervisor supporting growth in their supervisee.
  • Enhance supervision skills for use in your practice, organization, or agency.
  • Compare popular supervision models for adoption within their practice, organization, or agency

Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS

Khara is passionate about giving people aha moments that create goosebumps and catalyze powerful action. Khara began her career in community mental health and enjoys providing supervision of fellow supervisors to further develop their leadership style. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and owner of a group private practice in Denver, Colorado. Khara is the co-founder and co-author of The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision and provides clinical supervision training opportunities and consultation within the mental health profession.

You can read more about Khara by clicking here and here

Credit Hours: CEs provided with this course include 1.5 continuing education hours of credit.

Counselors: Telehealth Certification Institute LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6693. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors #MHC-0048.

Marriage and Family Therapists: Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations. You can check with your board to determine if this course would be accepted by your licensing board.

Social Workers: Telehealth Certification Institute LLC #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2021 – 05/02/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 clinical continuing education credits.

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.

Addiction Professionals: This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits, effective 2/23/2021. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programing.

Psychologists: Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128.

Art Therapists: Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.

Other Professionals: This activity qualifies for 90 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

This is a non-interactive, self-study course.

To receive your certificate of completion you must complete the course in its entirety.

Online courses are completed by registering, logging in, navigating to your course using the menu (My Courses – the Course Title), completing all of the modules, completing and passing the post-test, and completing the course evaluation.

Live Webinar courses are completed by registering, logging in to this website, navigating to your course using the menu (My Courses – the Course Title), attending the full course via webinar, submitting your attendance, and completing the post-test and course evaluation online.

Psychologists and other professionals seeking CE credit through our approval with the American Psychological Association are asked, but not required, to complete the course evaluation before obtaining their certificate of completion, however passing a post-test for online self-study courses, and submitting one's attendance for live on-site and live webinars is required.

You can receive your certificate of completion by logging onto this website, navigating to the course using the menu (My Courses – the Course Title), scroll to the bottom of your course, and click on your certificate to either download it or print it.

Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.

Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities

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Cancellation Policy

Refunds are offered within the first 30 days for courses which have not been completed.  There is a 10% service fee for refunds.

Grievance Policy

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This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services, particularly those who are supervisors or have an interest in supervision.

Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.  The course may include required reading.

This program was recorded on January 20, 2023

You have six months to access and complete online courses from the time of purchase.

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Khara Croswaite Brindle
MA, LPC, ACS

Khara is passionate about giving people aha moments that create goosebumps and catalyze powerful action. She began her career in community mental health and managed a team of 15 green clinicians who served at-risk youth and families. Khara has provided quality individual supervision since 2014 and currently enjoys providing supervision of supervision to support colleagues in developing their leadership style. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and owner of a group private practice in Denver, Colorado. Khara is the co-founder and co-author of The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision, which launched in 2019. She has developed a Supervision Empowerment Academy for mental health leaders and provides clinical supervision training opportunities and consultation within the mental health field.

You can read more about Khara by clicking here and here