In many settings, clinical supervisors guide trainees from different professions whose training, ethics, and practice models don’t fully align—often in ways no one names. Those unspoken differences can create supervisory misunderstandings, missed learning opportunities, and strain on the supervisory alliance.

This training makes those hidden dynamics visible. You’ll learn how discipline-specific histories shape supervision priorities, how to respond when lenses diverge, and how to use cultural humility and collaboration strategies to reduce nondisclosure, improve learning engagement, and strengthen client care.

Dr. DaLene Forester, PhD, LMFT, LPCC—an EMDRIA Approved Consultant/Trainer, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Consultant (CEDS-C), and AAMFT/CAMFT certified supervisor—has trained clinicians across counseling, psychology, social work, and MFT. Her experience bridging specialties in trauma, eating disorders, and supervision equips her to translate cross-disciplinary complexity into concrete supervisory practices that directly support the learning objectives.

The session blends a concise historic-epistemic framing of the helping professions with pragmatic tools. You’ll receive a cross-disciplinary supervision checklist to structure conversations when expectations differ (e.g., case conceptualization, documentation, scope) and practice supervisory prompts that operationalize cultural humility toward disciplinary identity. Evidence-informed interprofessional education (IPE) activities—such as role-swap case presentations and discipline-lens reflections—will help you convert potential friction points into collaborative learning moments.

Topics include: the historical origins and central commitments of counseling, social work, psychology, and marriage & family therapy; how dominant theories and institutional forces shape supervision expectations; common cross-disciplinary tensions (assessment focus, intervention style, ethics alignment, documentation, and scope of practice); a supervisor checklist for orienting mixed-discipline supervision; cultural humility applied to disciplinary identity to reduce supervisee nondisclosure; and IPE-based supervisory learning activities that improve collaboration, knowledge translation, and client outcomes.

Key Takeaways:

• Name what’s often invisible: Discuss how each profession’s history and commitments shape current supervision priorities to reduce misattribution and conflict.
• Structure cross-discipline learning: Apply a pragmatic supervision checklist to real supervision situations to better understand your supervisees’ disciplinary lenses.
• Invite disclosure, grow collaboration: Demonstrate supervisory prompts that operationalize cultural humility toward disciplinary identity to increase supervisee disclosure and collaborative learning.

Why this course?

• Directly addresses mixed-discipline realities: Purpose-built for supervisors overseeing trainees from counseling, psychology, social work, MFT, and related professions where unnoticed mismatches can derail learning and alliance.
• Tool-first, practice-ready: Provides a usable checklist, culturally humble prompts, and IPE activities you can implement immediately to enhance safety, ethics, and team functioning.
• Led by an expert supervisor-educator: Dr. Forester’s multi-board supervision credentials and national teaching experience ground the course in depth, nuance, and practicality.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the historical origins and central commitments of counseling, social work, psychology, and marriage & family therapy, and how these histories shape supervision priorities.
• Apply a cross-disciplinary supervision checklist to their own supervision circumstance or situation to enhance their personal understanding of their supervisees.
• Demonstrate two supervisory prompts to operationalize cultural humility toward disciplinary identity that increase supervisee disclosure and collaborative learning.

By illuminating where our professions come from and equipping you with tools that honor those differences, this webinar helps supervisors safeguard quality, align ethics across codes, and strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration. If you oversee trainees from varied backgrounds, you’re warmly invited to join us for this free course.