Fostering Clinical Confidence In Your Supervisees

Description

Clinical confidence doesn’t just happen—it’s built. And as a supervisor, you play the most pivotal role in shaping it. This course offers the essential tools and insights you need to cultivate confident, capable, and autonomous clinicians ready to succeed in real-world settings.

Whether you're a seasoned supervisor or stepping into the role for the first time, this self-paced course invites you to rethink how you guide your supervisees and offers concrete strategies that make your job easier—and their growth more assured.

Shannon Heers, LPC, LMHC, CAS, ACS, is a seasoned therapist, clinical supervisor, and founder of Firelight Supervision and Catalyss Counseling. With extensive experience guiding therapists at all levels, Shannon specializes in practical and sustainable approaches to supervision, including burnout prevention and therapist development.

In this course, Shannon offers a clear, structured approach to building clinical confidence in supervisees by focusing on both foundational principles and everyday supervision strategies. Her guidance is grounded, insightful, and immediately applicable.

You’ll explore the seven foundations of therapist confidence, examine the supervisor’s responsibilities in shaping professional identity, and learn practical methods to instill trust, resilience, and autonomy in your supervisees.

Topics covered include defining clinical confidence, fostering professional identity, addressing imposter syndrome, using strengths-based supervision, promoting autonomy and risk-taking in safe ways, and identifying common supervisory pitfalls that erode confidence.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand what builds confidence: Gain insight into the seven foundations that contribute to a therapist’s clinical self-assurance.

• Redefine the role of the supervisor: Learn how your presence, feedback, and modeling can directly affect your supervisee’s development.

• Apply practical strategies: Walk away with a set of actionable tools to support and accelerate supervisee growth.

Why this course?

• Focused on your impact: This course is designed to help supervisors do what matters most—empower others.

• Led by a trusted expert: Shannon’s clinical and supervisory background ensures relevant, field-tested content.

• Offered by an industry leader: Telehealth Certification Institute equips behavioral health professionals with the training they need to thrive in today’s changing healthcare landscape.

Learning Objectives:

• List the 7 foundations of therapist clinical confidence

• Define the clinical supervisor’s roles in instilling clinical confidence in supervisees

• Demonstrate practical strategies for improving supervisee confidence

Helping your supervisees become confident, independent clinicians doesn’t have to feel like guesswork. With the right framework and tools, it becomes one of the most rewarding aspects of your professional life—begin your journey today.

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Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 3 hours 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

About Shannon Heers, LPC, LMHC, CAS, ACS 

Shannon Heers is an experienced therapist, clinical supervisor, and the founder of Firelight Supervision. Firelight Supervision provides clinical supervision and clinical consultation to counselors and social workers pursuing licensure, as well as post-licensure professional development. Shannon is also the owner of Catalyss Counseling, a group private practice located in Colorado. Shannon specializes in providing clinical supervision and clinical consultation to beginner to advanced therapists, and is passionate about burnout prevention in the counseling field.

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor(s) 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 3 continuing education hours 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 3 clinical continuing education credits.

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. 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 180 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.

Accommodations and Policies

Close Captioning is available for live webinars and recorded video presentations.

You can click on the following links to view our policies:

• Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities.
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• Grievance Policy
• Support Options
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