The Clinical Supervisor’s Observations for Remediation: Strategies for Personal & Professional Development

Description

When a supervisee struggles, is it always a clinical issue—or could it be a misjudged one? Many supervisors face the challenge of discerning real performance concerns from developmental delays, bias, or blind spots. This course reveals how to navigate those complexities with clarity, care, and strategy.

For clinical supervisors, effective remediation is about more than just course-correcting—it’s about empowering growth. This training provides a powerful framework to identify supervisee needs, apply supportive interventions, and reduce unnecessary referrals for personal treatment.

Ruby Blow, MA, LPC, NCC, CPCS, ACS, BC-TMH, is a nationally recognized expert in clinical supervision. With over two decades of experience, Ruby brings unmatched insight into the developmental stages of clinicians, the intricacies of supervision, and the subtle yet critical judgments supervisors make. She has trained thousands of clinicians and was awarded Counselor Educator of the Year in Georgia.

Ruby’s humanistic, multicultural, and developmental approach helps supervisors stay grounded in ethics, empathy, and clarity. In this course, she draws from real-life scenarios, like the case of “Ronald,” to illustrate how misperceptions can impact decisions—and how supervisors can avoid those pitfalls while supporting supervisees' growth.

Topics covered in this course include personal and professional identity factors that shape supervision, common supervisory blind spots, and relational dynamics that influence development. Participants will explore targeted strategies for remediation, including projective techniques, vulnerability-based interventions, and creative methods like art therapy prompts and self-compassion exercises. The course concludes with practical insights on tailoring interventions to a supervisee’s developmental stage.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand supervisory perception: Learn how identity factors and past experiences can skew your judgment—and how to correct for them.

• Apply five powerful interventions: Move beyond referring supervisees to therapy with actionable, developmental tools.

• Tailor strategies to supervisee growth: Match interventions to the specific stage and needs of the clinician you’re supervising.

Why This Course?

• Real-world supervision insight: Ruby Blow’s field-tested methods and case examples bring theory to life, offering proven strategies.

• Supportive and nuanced instruction: This course empowers supervisors to foster growth without pathologizing their supervisees.

• Trusted CE provider: Telehealth Certification Institute delivers evidence-based education rooted in clinical integrity and practical relevance.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the factors that impact supervisors’ judgements about and perceptions of their supervisees that can result in misperceptions due to bias and blind spots.

• Name five supervisory interventions that can be utilized beyond referring supervisees for their own treatment.

• Discern what supervisory interventions can best be utilized based on supervisee’s developmental needs.

This course invites you to deepen your confidence and compassion as a clinical supervisor. Discover how the right approach to remediation can transform supervision into a space of healing, development, and professional excellence.

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 Format and Access

This is an online self-study course consisting of 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

About Ruby L. Blow, MA, LPC, NCC, BCC, CPCS, ACS, BC-TMH

Ruby Blow is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Georgia. Her current practice focus is professional development and she provides tele-supervision and tele-consultation. Her services include both group and individual modalities. She is a leader in the field of clinical supervision practice and has been in practice for 22 years. In 2012, Ruby won the Counselor Educator of the Year Award in the state of Georgia from the Professional Counselors Association. She has worked with mental health professionals in the area of clinical development from the beginning of her career. She taught for 10 years as an adjunct faculty member at Argosy University Atlanta. During her time as a clinical instructor, she led students in their practicum internships as their instructor of record. She gained experience in distance supervision leading all online sections of practicum/internship seminar. Ruby is an approved clinical supervisor and a board certified telemental health provider.

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 1.5 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, 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 1.5 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:

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 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 is a non-interactive, self-study course.

Accommodations and Policies

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