Preparing Supervisees for TeleMental Health
Enroll in the Online Self-Study course and complete it at your own pace.
1 CE hour available for behavioral health clinicians upon completion.
Are your supervisees truly ready to provide safe, ethical, and effective telemental health services? As the landscape of behavioral healthcare continues to shift toward digital delivery, supervisors must be prepared to evaluate and support supervisees navigating this complex modality.
This self-paced course provides clear, practical guidance for clinical supervisors seeking to ethically assess and prepare supervisees for the unique responsibilities of telemental health. Whether you're new to distance supervision or looking to strengthen your existing practices, this course offers a structured and insightful framework to guide your evaluation process.
Enroll in the 1 CE Online Self-Study for $20
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Ruby Blow, MA, LPC, NCC, BCC, CPCS, ACS, BC-TMH, is a nationally recognized expert in clinical supervision and telehealth. With over 22 years of experience, Ruby brings both depth and clarity to this course, drawing from her leadership in the field and hands-on experience in supervising clinicians virtually. Raymond Barrett, LMHC, LPC, and CEO of Telehealth Certification Institute, joins her with unmatched expertise in telemental health training and consultation.
In this course, Ruby and Ray take a competency-based approach to help you evaluate supervisees for telemental health readiness. Through real-world insights, legal and ethical guidance, and practical tools, they will equip you with the skills and confidence to supervise telehealth services responsibly.
Topics covered include key ethical and legal requirements from major professional codes, direct and vicarious liability concerns, regulatory and technological considerations, and the development and use of preparedness checklists. You’ll also explore best practices for evaluating supervisees’ setup, intake processes, and first-session procedures for telehealth.
Instructor
Raymond Barrett, LMHC, LPC, is CEO and founder of the Telehealth Certification Institute, where he has developed more than 50 courses and trained thousands of clinicians and over 1,900 organizations in telehealth best practices. A licensed professional counselor and master trainer, Ray draws on his clinical, supervisory, and consulting experience to emphasize ethical, research-informed telehealth delivery. He continues to maintain a small private practice while ensuring TCI courses remain current, practical, and person-centered to support clinicians, clients, and the broader healthcare community.
You can find Ray here
Instructor
Ruby L. Blow, MA, LPC, NCC, BCC, CPCS, ACS, BC-TMH, is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Georgia. Her current practice focus is professional development and she provides tele-supervision and tele-consultation. Her services include both group and individual modalities. She is a leader in the field of clinical supervision practice and has been in practice for 22 years. In 2012, Ruby won the Counselor Educator of the Year Award in the state of Georgia from the Professional Counselors Association. She has worked with mental health professionals in the area of clinical development from the beginning of her career. She taught for 10 years as an adjunct faculty member at Argosy University Atlanta. Ruby is an approved clinical supervisor and a board certified telemental health provider.
You can find more information about Ruby Blow here.
Key Takeaways:
Clarify supervisory responsibilities: Understand the ethical and legal imperatives for assessing supervisee readiness.
Implement a structured evaluation process: Use a clear framework to assess supervisees’ preparedness for delivering telemental health services.
Apply practical tools: Utilize a telemental health preparedness checklist to guide your evaluations and supervision plans.
Why this course?
Instructor expertise: Learn from two of the field’s most respected voices in telehealth and supervision, bringing you current, practical insights.
Relevant and actionable content: Focuses specifically on what supervisors need to know and do—no fluff, just the essentials.
Trusted CE provider: Telehealth Certification Institute is a recognized leader in telehealth training, with a track record of excellence and innovation.
Learning Objectives
Explain the Supervisor’s ethical and legal responsibility to evaluate a supervisee's readiness to provide telemental health service.
Describe the process of evaluating a supervisee's readiness to provide telemental health service.
Apply a supervisee telemental health preparedness checklist when evaluating a supervisee’s readiness.
This course offers the clarity and structure supervisors need in an evolving clinical environment. Enroll today and feel confident that your supervisees—and ultimately their clients—are in capable, well-prepared hands.
Add this course to your cart to develop your skills, boost your confidence, and enhance your impact as a behavioral health professional.
This is a non-interactive, self-study course that offers 1 hour of recorded video instruction, and a post-test.
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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: Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.
This program was recorded on November 12, 2021.
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