This course addresses the key challenges mental health supervisors face, such as navigating difficult conversations, managing supervisee competence, and handling interpersonal conflicts. It equips supervisors with tools and strategies to overcome these hurdles while preserving the supervisory relationship. By identifying common errors, focusing on humility, rupture, and repair, providing a framework for feedback, and knowing when and how to create action plans when needed, the course empowers supervisors to handle complex situations with confidence and effectiveness.
This course is designed for mental health professionals serving as clinical supervisors, including licensed therapists, social workers, counselors, and psychologists. It is ideal for those with foundational supervision experience seeking to strengthen their ability to manage difficult situations and support supervisees' professional growth.
This course offers a practical, real-world approach to overcoming key supervisory challenges such as supervisee competence issues, strained supervisory alliances, and the need for courageous conversations. Using case vignettes and participant engagement, it equips supervisors with new insights into managing conflicts and mistakes while introducing innovative strategies for developing action plans. By emphasizing practical application and self-awareness, the course ensures participants gain actionable skills that align with best practices in clinical supervision.
Participants will leave with enhanced confidence and refined skills to manage challenges in both individual and group supervision. They will learn to navigate anxiety, transference/countertransference, attachment issues, and power dynamics in supervision. Additionally, participants will gain a deeper understanding of rupture/repair dynamics, how to give effective feedback, and how to implement action plans to address performance concerns. Through case examples and self-reflection, participants will become more effective, resilient supervisors, capable of fostering supervisee growth while upholding professional standards.
This course combines theoretical knowledge with hands-on application to provide a comprehensive framework for improving supervisory practice. Through active participation, case studies, and self-reflection, supervisors will not only learn to avoid common pitfalls but also foster more resilient supervisory relationships. The course promotes personal and professional growth, enabling supervisors to create supportive and productive environments where supervisees can thrive.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify potential challenges and common errors in individual and group supervision.
- Define the concept of rupture/repair in clinical supervision.
- Practice having courageous conversations.
- List the key components of implementing an action plan.
This workshop is for supervisors or those considering becoming supervisors.
This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 3 hours of video instruction and a post-test.
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.
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Amie Bryant, LCSW, CAS, ACS
Amie Bryant is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Addictions Specialist, EMDRIA Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant, and Approved Clinical Supervisor, specializing in work with adults and older adolescents. She has been in private practice for over 10 years and also spent 10 years working at the Fort Lewis College Counseling Center as a counselor, Training Coordinator for the Graduate Clinical Training Program, and ultimately as Director of the Center. Her previous experience includes work in schools, integrated healthcare, wilderness therapy, juvenile detention, emergency services, adult outpatient mental health, substance use treatment and prevention, and as Adjunct Faculty for the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work Four Corners Program.
She is passionate about working with people to improve wellness by supporting them in developing a strong and healthy sense of self. Using a relational approach to cognitive behavioral therapies, she believes that through the therapeutic relationship, acquiring skills and knowledge, and increasing self-awareness and understanding, we can learn to respond to our difficulties and discomfort rather than react to them.
Disclosure Statement: The instructor for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.
Credit Hours: This course consists of 3 continuing education hours of credit.
Counselors:
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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.
Social Workers:
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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:
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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:
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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 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.
