Culturally competent supervision isn’t just a professional responsibility—it’s essential to safe, effective client care. Without it, unexamined bias, countertransference, and worldview misattunement can quietly undermine the very healing process clinicians are trying to facilitate.
This powerful 1-hour training offers the clarity and tools supervisors need to identify and address supervisee blind spots, cultivate awareness, and foster therapeutic relationships that build trust and promote equity—especially when working across lines of difference.
Led by Dr. Sonja Sutherland, PhD, LPC, ACS, BC-TMH—a nationally respected expert in culturally competent supervision and social justice-informed clinical care—this course brings deep clinical insight and practical frameworks from decades of experience, research, and teaching. Dr. Sutherland is the founder of Legacy Changers Worldwide and a leading voice in helping clinicians confront systemic harm while promoting client-centered growth.
Dr. Sutherland guides participants through a thoughtful, research-informed supervision framework she developed—the Cross-Cultural Civility Mindset Development Model—using real-life clinical examples and integrative strategies. Participants will be equipped to assess supervisee readiness, identify barriers, and apply a holistic tool for growth.
Topics include the supervision relationship as a vehicle for cultural development, assessing supervisee self-awareness and cultural humility, using a civility developmental rubric, and applying tools such as the multicultural orientation framework and multicultural/social justice counseling competencies. The course also introduces intersectionality, privilege, marginalization, and confirmation bias in clinical decision-making.
Key Takeaways
Apply worldview development: Conceptualize clinical supervision cases through the lens of supervisee cultural worldview and identity.
Use a practical rubric: Implement a supervision tool that identifies supervisee developmental needs and tracks cultural competence growth.
Facilitate deeper conversations: Learn how to integrate equity, privilege, and intersectionality into supervision sessions with clarity and care.
Why this course?
Original, research-based model: Learn directly from the creator of the Cross-Cultural Civility Mindset Development Model—available only through Dr. Sutherland’s work.
Focused and actionable: A concise yet impactful format gives you concrete tools you can use right away in your next supervision session.
Trusted by clinicians nationwide: Offered by Telehealth Certification Institute, whose mission is to empower professionals with exceptional, ethically grounded continuing education.
Learning Objectives
Apply the understanding of worldview development of diverse supervisees to clinical supervision case conceptualization.
Demonstrate use of a supervisee cultural competence development tool/rubric that can be put to immediate use with supervisees.
This course is an opportunity to sharpen your lens, enhance your supervision skills, and take the next step toward fostering truly inclusive, growth-focused clinical care. We invite you to explore how small shifts in your supervision approach can create meaningful change for both clinicians and the clients they serve.
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This non-interactive self-study course. Instruction consists of 1 hour of video instruction and a post-test.
Availability: From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.
Who Should Attend: This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
Teaching Methods: This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.
How to Attend: Instructions for attending and completing a course can be found here.
Dr. Sonja Sutherland, PhD, LPC, ACS, BC-TMH
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Sutherland is the founder and CEO of Legacy Changers Worldwide, an organization dedicated to providing family education and mental and emotional wellness resources. The Legacy Changers Worldwide umbrella has provided support through the Legacy Changers Counseling Center, The Family Healing Room, VASAYO, and previously as host of a local Atlanta talk-radio show focusing on family relationships and mental wellness. In addition, Dr. Sutherland provides intermediate and advanced continuing education workshops for licensed clinicians, and post-masters supervision for associate licensed clinicians through Legacy Professional Development & Training. More information on services and programs offered by Dr. Sutherland can be found here.
In the mental health field since 1998, and licensed since 2001, Dr. Sutherland has provided therapeutic services in the private practice, psychiatric residential, in-home, and outpatient mental health settings, for adolescents and adults, through individual, group, couples, and family therapy. She has specialized in working with adolescents, couples and families for the last 22 years. One of Dr. Sutherland’s historical research interests has been evidence-based treatment within residential settings for commercially sexually exploited youth, which was a primary focus of her dissertation and clinical expertise during her years as a clinician in the psychiatric residential setting. Her ongoing research interests include clinician-in-training cultural competence development and clinical supervision. Within the last 5 years, Dr. Sutherland has provided training, researched, and published in the areas of racial trauma, cultural competence development and training, the provision of culturally-informed clinical intervention and supervision, and social justice advocacy.
Dr. Sutherland's CV can be found here.
Disclosure Statement: The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.
Credit Hours: This course consists of 1 continuing education hour of credit.
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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 your licensing board would accept this course.
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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.
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Other Professionals: This course qualifies for 60 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.
