Supervising clinicians in a virtual environment presents a unique set of challenges—from navigating platform logistics to guiding inexperienced telehealth providers through ethical and clinical dilemmas. Without the right tools, even seasoned supervisors can feel unprepared.
If you’re overseeing counselors in a telemental health setting, this training equips you with the knowledge, structure, and confidence to do it well. Whether you're new to telesupervision or looking to strengthen your practice, this course provides practical insights grounded in developmental supervision theory and real-world experience.
Drs. Sheri Pickover, Allison Arnekrans, and Nicholaus Erber-LaPierre bring decades of combined experience in clinical supervision, counselor education, and telemental health delivery. With backgrounds in academia, clinical practice, and research, these experts offer nuanced guidance to help you become a more effective, confident telesupervisor.
Their approach is clear, collaborative, and grounded in best practices. You'll explore how to adapt traditional supervision strategies to remote environments, while also cultivating strong supervisory relationships and ethical decision-making in the digital space.
This self-paced course covers the barriers that often complicate telesupervision—such as imposter syndrome, tech-related disruptions, and observation challenges—and offers structured strategies for overcoming them. You’ll learn how to organize documentation, evaluate supervisees effectively, establish your supervisory model, and maintain legal and ethical compliance. The course also highlights practical tools and resources you can immediately incorporate into your supervision practice.
Key Takeaways:
Understand common challenges: Gain insight into the specific difficulties associated with telesupervision and supervising new telehealth counselors.
Apply developmental best practices: Learn how to support the professional growth of telehealth counselors at various levels of experience.
Strengthen supervision skills: Acquire actionable tools for feedback, structure, and organization in a virtual supervision setting.
Why This Course?
Expert-led instruction: Learn from instructors with decades of clinical, academic, and telesupervision experience.
Real-world relevance: This training is built on actual telesupervision practice—not theory alone—making it immediately applicable to your work.
Trusted provider: Telehealth Certification Institute is known for high-quality, accessible, and relevant continuing education for behavioral health professionals.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will identify barriers and challenges to providing supervision to beginning telehealth counselors
Participants will identify barriers and challenges to providing supervision via telehealth.
Participants will be able to explain best practices to assist new telemental health counselors from a developmental perspective.
Equip yourself with a reliable, comprehensive supervision toolkit that supports your supervisees' success—and your own. Start strengthening your virtual supervision skills today with guidance from leaders in the field.
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This is a non-interactive self-study course. Instruction consists of 1 hour 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.
Sheri Pickover, PhD, LPC BC-TMH
Dr. Pickover is a Professor and Program Director of the Central Michigan University Counseling Program. She has 18 years experience in higher education and 30 years of clinical experience providing individual, group. and family therapy; and 20 years of experience providing clinical supervision to counselors in training and new professionals. She has co-authored a text on working with children and families in the child welfare system and has provided telemental health for two years.
Alison K. Arnekrans, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS, BC-TMH
Allison K. Arnekrans obtained her doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, and is currently working as an Associate Professor at Central Michigan University. Her professional background includes service as a Licensed Professional Counselor and supervisor working with youth/families, an Employee Assistance Program, and within a partial hospitalization program. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Arnekrans is highly involved at the local, state, and national levels in counseling associations and service to the profession. Her current research interests include maternity and academia, personal counseling requirement in graduate programs, and telehealth in campus training clinics.
Nicholaus Erber-LaPierre, PhD, LPC, CCMHC, CAADC, BC-TMH, ACS
Dr. Erber-LaPierre has worked with the transgender population as a mental health counseling professional since 2011, and has served as an affiliate counselor for the University of Michigan Comprehensive Gender Services program as a remote clinician in rural Michigan from 2011-2017. Dr. Erber-LaPierre has served as an Assistant Professor of Counseling in the Counseling and Special Education department in the College of Education and Human Services at Central Michigan University since 2020, and has held faculty positions at Henderson State University, Seattle University, and Southern New Hampshire University since 2015. Dr. Erber-LaPierre graduated from Walden University with his PhD in 2015, where the focus of his dissertation work was the identity development process and lived experiences of trans-identified individuals in rural areas. Prior to this Dr. Erber-LaPierre received his Master of Arts in Community Counseling from Western Michigan University and his Bachelor of Science from Michigan State University. Dr. Erber-LaPierre’s research interests include transgender health navigation and literacy, integrated health practices, and multicultural counseling competence.
Disclosure Statement: The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.
Credit Hours: This course consists of 1 continuing education hour of credit.
Counselors:
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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:
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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 1 clinical continuing education credit.
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 60 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.
