Competency-Based Approach to Group Supervision: Supervisor Multicultural Humility, Supervisee Self-Efficacy, and Client Satisfaction

Description

Clinical supervision plays a vital role in shaping competent, confident clinicians—but without cultural humility, even well-intentioned supervision can fall short. Supervisors who fail to explore identity, worldview, and bias risk diminishing supervisee self-efficacy and undermining client satisfaction.

This course offers a supportive and practical framework for supervisors who want to lead with cultural responsiveness, enhance the supervision relationship, and support better outcomes for both supervisees and their clients.

Dr. Kristy Christopher-Holloway, EdD, LPC, NCC, BC-TMH, ACS, PMH-C, is a national expert on multicultural counseling and supervision. A licensed counselor, educator, and consultant, Dr. Christopher-Holloway brings years of experience in culturally attuned clinical care and group supervision. She is known for her compelling teaching style, powerful case examples, and deep commitment to addressing systemic inequities in mental health.

In this online self-study course, Dr. Christopher-Holloway uses a competency-based lens to help supervisors reflect on their own identities, examine power dynamics in supervision, and build stronger working alliances with supervisees from diverse backgrounds. Her teaching approach is rooted in practical tools, real-world scenarios, and current research on multicultural competence and clinical supervision.

Topics covered in this training include the functions and goals of clinical supervision, cultural humility as a lifelong practice, and how supervisory dynamics parallel those of the client-therapist relationship. The course also explores identity development models, the role of self-awareness in supervision, and how supervisors can foster supervisee growth while promoting ethical, culturally informed care.

Key Takeaways:

• Strengthen supervisory relationships: Learn how to build working alliances that encourage supervisee growth, openness, and accountability.

• Enhance cultural humility in practice: Apply a framework for integrating identity, worldview, and cultural context into supervision.

• Promote better client outcomes: Support supervisee development in ways that increase counseling effectiveness and client satisfaction.

Why this course?

• Practical and relevant: Addresses real-world supervision challenges faced by behavioral health professionals in today’s multicultural society.

• Taught by a national expert: Dr. Christopher-Holloway brings deep clinical, supervisory, and research expertise to this essential topic.

• Offered by a trusted CE provider: Telehealth Certification Institute is a leading provider of behavioral health continuing education, committed to clinical excellence and equity in care.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and understand the role of supervision and its importance to the counseling process.

• Identify the role of culture and cultural humility in the supervisory relationship.

• Describe how one’s cultural identity and worldview impact the supervisory relationship and identify ways to maintain cultural humility when providing supervision.

• Describe how the supervisory relationship may parallel the supervisee’s and clients’ therapy relationship.

Explore the essential elements of supervision through a culturally humble lens. This training offers a meaningful opportunity to refine your skills, support diverse supervisees, and create a supervision space where learning and inclusion thrive.

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Format and Access

This non-interactive self-study course. Instruction consists of 1 hour of video instruction and a post-test.

Course Details

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:

 Course access and completion instructions.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructor

Dr. Kristy Christopher-Holloway, EdD, LPC, NCC, BC-TMH, ACS, PMH-C

Dr. Kristy Christopher-Holloway is an Assistant Professor at Lindsey Wilson College in the School of Professional Counseling, the founder and director of New Vision Counseling Center, LLC, and founder of New Vision Consulting and Training, LLC, both located in Georgia. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, a Board Certified Tele-mental Health Provider, a counselor supervisor, and certified in Perinatal Mental Health. She works with racial and ethnic minority women experiencing infertility trauma, birth trauma, reproductive loss, and issues related to maternal mental health.
Dr. Christopher-Holloway is a national and international speaker with a focus on topics such as African Americans and mental health, the psycho-emotional impact of infertility in African American women, perinatal mood disorders, the strong Black woman syndrome, generational trauma, cultural competence/humility, and more. She has received numerous honors, including the Breakthrough Award for Outstanding Research awarded by the National Board of Certified Counselors, in recognition of her work related to mental health and infertility.
Dr. Kristy Christopher-Holloway's instructor information

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

Credit Hours: 

This course consists of 1 continuing education hour 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 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:

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: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 1 clinical continuing education credit.

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 programming.

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 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.

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