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Clinical supervision isn’t just about oversight—it’s a distinct professional practice with far-reaching ethical, cultural, and developmental implications. Supervisors must protect clients, support supervisees, and uphold the standards of an evolving field. This certificate course helps you do just that.
Whether you're preparing to become a supervisor or want to strengthen your current supervision skills, this course equips you with the tools, frameworks, and strategies you need to supervise ethically, confidently, and with cultural humility.
Taught by nationally recognized instructors including Kristin Ryan Easley, Lynn Louise Wonders, and Ruby Blow—leaders in counselor supervision, ethics, and professional development—this program brings together decades of clinical, supervisory, and educator experience across diverse settings.
Through a highly practical and integrative lens, each module offers a structured exploration of clinical supervision’s foundations, methods, challenges, and transformative potential. You’ll move beyond theory to develop real-world competencies in gatekeeping, documentation, multicultural responsiveness, telesupervision, group supervision, and more.
This certificate includes 15 curated courses that span the full breadth of clinical supervision practice. Topics covered include supervision ethics, supervisory contracts, documentation best practices, multicultural competence, telesupervision, supervisee evaluation and feedback, managing resistance, licensure supervision within organizations, supervision models and methods, power and privilege, social justice in supervision, group supervision strategies, and much more.
Key Takeaways:
Establish collaborative and culturally responsive supervisory relationships: Develop trust-based supervision grounded in ethical standards, clear boundaries, and cultural humility to support professional growth and client protection.
Navigate the full spectrum of supervisory challenges: Confidently address supervisee impairment, documentation issues, resistance, dual roles, licensure complexities, gatekeeping responsibilities, and power dynamics—both in-person and via telesupervision.
Apply a range of supervision models and methods: Integrate developmental, psychotherapy-based, competency-based, and multicultural frameworks to match each supervisee’s level, learning style, and clinical setting.
Why This Certificate Program?
Comprehensive and practice-oriented: Gain access to 15 in-depth, scenario-based courses designed by seasoned clinical supervisors to reflect the realities and challenges of supervisory practice.
Expert-led instruction across disciplines: Learn from nationally recognized presenters with decades of experience in clinical supervision, education, and ethics—professionals who have shaped the field through publications, teaching, and leadership.
Tools you can use immediately: Walk away with downloadable templates, supervision contracts, evaluation guides, ethical decision-making frameworks, reflection prompts, and culturally attuned case studies—all designed to simplify your role and strengthen your impact.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of Foundations of Supervision: Preparing for Effective Supervision, participants will be able to:
Define supervision as a distinct area of practice
Explain the general goal of supervision, the necessary supervisor knowledge, skill, or competency, and describe the supervisor's role or function and the administrative responsibilities
Identify the considerations for the structure of supervision
Express the key elements of the supervisory relationship and the importance of the supervisory relationship
Upon completion of Theoretical Frameworks and Models of Clinical Supervision, participants will be able to:
Name 5 categories of supervision models.
List and describe a minimum of 5 supervision models.
Differentiate and define first wave supervision models and second wave supervision models.
Describe the benefits of combining more than one supervision model.
Select and apply supervision models to match case scenarios about fictional supervisees.
Describe why it is important for supervisors to be well versed and discerning as to what supervision models they use.
Upon completion of Understanding and Developing an Effective Clinical Supervision Relationship, participants will be able to:
Discuss the importance of a supervisory relationship and measuring its effectiveness.
Share key aspects/traits for building a collaborative relationship.
Explain the importance of power in the relationship and how to use it appropriately and effectively.
Describe ways to prevent or resolve conflict and resistance.
Upon completion of Methods of Supervision, participants will be able to:
Explain the importance of having a model of supervision.
List several methods of supervision.
List two ways for building supervisee cultural competence.
Illustrate methods of monitoring, providing feedback, and evaluations.
Discuss suggestions for managing supervisee concerns, deficiencies and anxiety.
Upon completion of The Nuts and Bolts of Clinical Supervision in Groups, participants will be able to:
Discuss the stages of group and core group processes and how these apply to clinical supervision in groups.
Analyze the power dynamics and cultural considerations that are present in clinical supervision in groups.
Identify specific models and techniques that can be used in clinical supervision in groups.
Develop skills to balance the needs of individual supervisees with the needs of the supervision group.
Upon completion of How Clinical Supervisors Can Adjust Their Evaluative Lens by Understanding the 'Zone of Proximal Development', participants will be able to:
Explain the impact that the zone of proximal development has on the skill set of clinical supervisors and counselors.
Describe how the zone of proximal development can be utilized to better understand the relationships between the supervisor and supervisee.
Upon completion of The Ethical Dance with Gatekeeping: The Common Complaints Against Therapists That Supervisors Need to Know, participants will be able to:
Explore and examine the common ethical complaints therapists face in clinical practice.
Examine the supervisor's role as a gatekeeper.
Demonstrate how to use the ethical decision making in clinical supervision.
Upon completion of Preparing Supervisees for TeleMental Health, participants will be able to:
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.
Upon completion of TeleSupervision and TeleConsultation, participants will be able to:
Address, enhance, and identify beginning supervisors and advanced supervisors concerns about telesupervision.
Address special considerations for the individual needs of supervisees in group supervision, assess how group telesupervision can accelerate supervisees’ learning and ways to decrease barriers to telesupervision.
Explore the developmental needs of supervisees and increase the supervisee’s commitment to the working alliance within the structured environment needed in telesupervision.
Upon completion of Documentation for Supervisors, participants will be able to:
Describe the value of documentation in supporting our professional work.
Participants will define key components of supervision documentation including maintaining a supervisee file.
Participants will identify several tips for enhanced, best practice note content.
Upon completion of Navigating Licensure Supervision Within an Organization, participants will be able to:
Describe the difference between administrative versus clinical supervision.
Conduct effective supervision via teleservices.
Document processes for supervision.
Upon completion of It’s Not Just Your Name on the Line: How Your Contract Supports Compliance and Standards in Clinical Supervision, participants will be able to:
Explain the obligations & functions of a clinical supervisor.
Explain the purpose of contracts in our profession.
Describe disclosure statement and contract elements.
Upon completion of Ethics for Supervisors, participants will be able to:
Name ethical areas of supervisor competence, knowledge, and practice
Identify key ethics of the supervisory relationship
Discuss the ethical aspects of gatekeeping and monitoring supervisee development and competence
Describe common examples of liability concerns and a suggestion for managing
Upon completion of Fostering Counselor Development Utilizing a Social Justice Lens in Supervision, participants will be able to:
Upon completion of Race, Power, and Privilege: Addressing Cross Cultural Dynamics in Supervision, participants will be able to:
Examine power dynamics in the supervisory relationship.
Identify errors in cross-cultural supervision.
Describe strategies to address culture in supervision.
Whether you’re stepping into supervision for the first time or striving to refine your approach, this comprehensive program offers a clear path forward. You’re invited to join a learning experience that supports both your growth and the future of our profession.
Add to cart to begin your journey as a more confident, ethical, and effective clinical supervisor.
Enrollment in the full program is offered at a discount of more than 60% off the full price for each course.
The CSC can only be earned by those enrolled in the Clinical Supervision Certificate Training Program
These are non-interactive, self-study courses. Instruction consists of a total of 49 hours of video instruction. Each course requires a post-test.
Upon registration, the following 15 courses will be added to your account, along with access to the Clinical Supervision Certificate:
- Foundations of Supervision: Preparing for Effective Supervision, Online Self-Study
- Theoretical Frameworks and Models of Clinical Supervision, Online Self-Study
- Understanding and Developing an Effective Clinical Supervision Relationship, Online Self-Study
- Methods of Supervision, Online Self-Study
- The Nuts and Bolts of Clinical Supervision in Groups, Online Self-Study
- How Clinical Supervisors Can Adjust Their Evaluative Lens by Understanding the “Zone of Proximal Development”, Online Self-Study
- The Ethical Dance with Gatekeeping: The Common Complaints Against Therapists That Supervisors Need to Know, Online Self-Study
- Preparing Supervisees for TeleMental Health, Online Self-Study
- TeleSupervision and TeleConsultation, Online Self-Study
- Documentation for Supervisors, Online Self-Study
- Navigating Licensure Supervision Within an Organization, Online Self-Study
- It’s Not Just Your Name on the Line: How Your Contract Supports Compliance and Standards in Clinical Supervision, Online Self-Study
- Ethics for Supervisors, Online Self-Study
- Fostering Counselor Development Utilizing a Social Justice Lens in Supervision, Online Self-Study
- Race, Power, and Privilege: Addressing Cross Cultural Dynamics in Supervision, Online Self-Study
Once each course has been completed and the Certificate of Completion indicating CEs has been issued, participants can then claim the Clinical Supervision Certificate (CSC)
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.
Raymond Barrett, CEO, LMHC, LPC
Ruby L. Blow, MA, LPC, NCC, BCC, CPCS, ACS, BC-TMH
Candice Crawford, PhD, LMHC
Kristin Ryan Easley, M.S., L.P.C., NCC
Dr. Malcolm Horn, PhD, LCSW, LAC, SAP, MAC
Latasha Matthews, LPC, CPCS, CPLC, CAMS
Francisca Mix, MA, LPC, BC-DMT, ACS
Dr. Rosalind Polk-Hall, EdD, LPC, MA, CMF, CPCS
Mary Kate Reese, PhD, LPC, CPCS
Ebony White, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS
Lynn Louise Wonders LPC, CPCS, RPT-S
(please refer to this page for details on each instructor)
Disclosure Statement: The instructors for these courses receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.
Credit Hours: This program consists of a total of 49 continuing education hours of credit (12 of which are ethics). Each course offers an individual certificate of completion indicating CEs earned for that course.
Counselors:
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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 your licensing board would accept this course.
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 marriage and family therapists #MFT-0135, effective May 8, 2025.
Social Workers:
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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.
Addiction Professionals:
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Psychologists:
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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 course qualifies for 2940 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.
Online self-study courses are non-interactive and include recorded instruction, a post-test and evaluation. Participants have 6 months from registration to complete coursework and claim the certificate of completion.
