The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision: A Modern Model for Private Practice and Community Mental Health

Description

Clinical supervision isn’t one-size-fits-all—especially when you're balancing ethical dilemmas, staff burnout, and complex caseloads. Whether you're leading a community mental health team or mentoring supervisees in private practice, you need a model that adapts, empowers, and actually works.

This course introduces a modern supervision framework that equips you with actionable strategies to develop supervisees while strengthening your own leadership and clinical identity.

Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS, brings over a decade of supervisory experience grounded in both community mental health and private practice. As co-founder of The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision and owner of a group practice in Denver, Khara has supported new clinicians and seasoned supervisors alike. Her expertise ensures that this course is both practical and inspiring, rooted in real-world clinical challenges and solutions.

Khara’s instructional approach blends ethical reflection, case vignettes, and self-inquiry with a structured model of supervisory roles. Participants are encouraged to examine their personal and professional development while mastering a dynamic, strengths-based supervision framework.

This training explores the key functions of effective supervision—teacher, leader, researcher, consultant, and colleague—within the Empowerment Model. Topics include ethical dilemmas in supervision, managing dual relationships, establishing contracts and boundaries, evaluating supervisory fit, and comparing supervision models. Attendees will also engage in reflective exercises to integrate these roles into their current practice.

Key Takeaways:

• Apply a flexible model: Use the Empowerment Model to navigate various supervisory roles based on supervisee needs and clinical settings.

• Strengthen your ethical lens: Learn how to identify and respond to common ethical dilemmas in supervision.

• Enhance supervisory confidence: Expand your toolkit with adaptable strategies for supervision in both community and private practice settings.

Why This Course?

• Real-world insight: Designed by a supervisor with deep experience in both agency and private practice work.

• Modern, applicable model: The Empowerment Model offers flexibility and role clarity that many other models lack.

• Focused on your growth: This course builds your capacity to lead, teach, consult, and collaborate more effectively.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe ethical dilemmas that impact supervision needs in community mental health and private practice settings.

• Identify the roles of a supervisor supporting growth in their supervisee.

• Participants will enhance supervision skills for use in their practice, organization, or agency.

• Compare popular supervision models for adoption within their practice, organization, or agency.

This self-paced course offers fresh, actionable insights to elevate your supervision practice.

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Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists 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 Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS

Khara is passionate about giving people aha moments that create goosebumps and catalyze powerful action. She began her career in community mental health and managed a team of 15 green clinicians who served at-risk youth and families. Khara has provided quality individual supervision since 2014 and currently enjoys providing supervision of supervision to support colleagues in developing their leadership style. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and owner of a group private practice in Denver, Colorado. Khara is the co-founder and co-author of The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision, which launched in 2019. She has developed a Supervision Empowerment Academy for mental health leaders and provides clinical supervision training opportunities and consultation within the mental health field.

You can read more about Khara Croswaite Brindle's instructor information and additional 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 1.5 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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