Supporting Supervisee Growth from Novice to Advanced Practitioner

Description

Clinical supervision does more than monitor skill development; it helps emerging clinicians bridge the gap between graduate training and the complex realities of clinical practice, where boundaries, confidence, role clarity, and professional identity are continually tested.

In this training, supervisors will have an opportunity to consider how supervision can become a more intentional developmental process that supports supervisees as they grow from novice clinicians toward more advanced levels of practice.

Ashley Charbonneau, LCSW, LAC, ACS, brings experience as a therapist, evaluator, supervisor, consultant, and professor. Her background in clinical supervision, professional resilience, accountability, and survivor healing informs her ability to help supervisors recognize the developmental needs of supervisees and respond with practical, stage-appropriate support.

Ashley’s approach reframes supervision as more than teaching techniques or reinforcing theoretical orientation. She identifies the real-world gaps that can affect supervisees’ transition into clinical practice, including challenges related to professional boundaries, role clarity, and translating conceptual knowledge into practice with clients. She highlights how these gaps can impact supervisees’ confidence, decision-making, and professional identity and offers supervision strategies that support identity formation across stages of competency.

This course will explore common gaps in graduate training that can leave supervisees underprepared for the realities of clinical work, emphasizing practical and developmentally appropriate supervision strategies that promote growth along the continuum from novice to advanced practitioner.

Key Takeaways

• Graduate training gaps: Identify common areas where supervisees may need additional support as they move from classroom learning into real-world clinical practice.
• Developmental supervision support: Learn how to support supervisees in building professional boundaries, clinical confidence, and a stronger professional identity.
• Practical supervision strategies: Apply developmentally appropriate strategies that promote supervisee growth from novice toward more advanced levels of practice.

Why This Course?

• Built for clinical supervisors: This course focuses on the practical realities supervisors face when helping emerging clinicians move beyond skill acquisition into confident and ethical practice.
• Taught by an experienced supervisor and educator: Ashley Charbonneau’s work as a supervisor, consultant, professor, and author gives her a strong foundation for addressing supervisee development with clarity and practical relevance.
• Aligned with TCI’s mission: Telehealth Certification Institute provides continuing education designed to equip healthcare professionals with meaningful learning opportunities that support high-quality care, professional growth, and ethical practice.

Learning Objectives

• Name common gaps in graduate training that affect supervisees’ transition into clinical practice.
• Examine ways to support supervisees in building professional boundaries, clinical confidence, and professional identity throughout their developmental growth.
• Apply supervision strategies that promote supervisee development along the continuum from novice to advanced practitioner.

Supervisees do not become confident, ethical clinicians through skill acquisition alone; they need supervision that recognizes where they are developmentally and helps them grow with intention. This training offers clinical supervisors a focused opportunity to strengthen the way they support supervisee development, professional identity, and readiness for the complex realities of clinical practice.

Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study program and consists of over 1.5 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

Ashley Charbonneau, LCSW, LAC, ACS

Ashley Charbonneau, LCSW, LAC, ACS, is a therapist, evaluator, supervisor, consultant, and professor in Colorado. She is also licensed in Washington. Her clinical expertise is working with individuals impacted by the legal system, grounded in a commitment to offender accountability and survivor healing, with a restorative justice focus. She has written 45-hour training programs about supervision, as well as two books: The Resilient Therapist (Bloomsbury, 2025) and Supporting Clients of Sexual Trauma: Establishing Safety, Processing Shame, and Fostering Healthy Intimacy (PESI, 2026). She has presented to various audiences about clinical supervision, sex offenses, mandatory reporting, and resilience following the worst moments of our careers.

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 1.5 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.

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 1.5 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:

Addiction Professionals: This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits, effective 8/12/2026. 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 90 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 course is a non-interactive, online self-study.

Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of completion to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.

Accommodations and Policies

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

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• Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities.
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