Trauma-Informed Supervision: Cultivating Well-Being and Competence in Practice

Description

This course does not offer CE Credits. The same course is available for purchase and offers 1.5 CE hours for behavioral health clinicians.  See "related products" below.

Trauma isn’t just showing up in your supervisees’ caseloads—it’s entering the supervision room, shaping how clinicians process risk, boundaries, and the work they carry home. When supervision becomes the frontline of protection, it can either buffer burnout and vicarious trauma—or unintentionally amplify them. What’s at stake is more than clinical skill: supervisee safety, ethical integrity, and sustainable practice.

This course cuts through vague “trauma-informed” talk and shows supervisors how to operationalize it—turning safety, trust, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural humility into concrete supervisory moves that strengthen the alliance, improve decision-making, and prevent ethical drift. You’ll learn to use supervision as a protective factor for clients and clinicians alike, not just a place to review cases.

Amie Bryant, LCSW, CAS, ACS, brings two decades across college counseling leadership, private practice, and wilderness therapy. A trauma therapist and EMDR consultant, she unites trauma treatment expertise with deep supervisory experience, translating complex ideas into day-to-day supervisory actions that clinicians can actually use.

With a warmly relational, reflective style, Amie begins by grounding participants to “arrive,” then models the pacing, transparency, and humility that foster nervous-system regulation and real learning. Expect live reflective prompts, parallel-process case discussion, and collaborative problem-solving that normalize supervisee reactions, differentiate countertransference from competence issues, and end with strengths-based debriefs to build sustainability—exactly the tone you can recreate with your own team.

Participants will learn how to define trauma and clinical supervision through a multi-layered lens; strengthen the supervisory alliance as a buffer against indirect trauma; develop trauma-competent clinicians who work within scope, set ethical boundaries, and seek help appropriately; connect stage-oriented treatment (safety/stability → processing → integration) to supervisory decisions; differentiate burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious trauma; use regulation strategies after difficult encounters; and integrate intersectionality and organizational realities (policies, forms, caseloads) so supervision is both personally and systemically trauma-informed.

Key Takeaways:

• Relational, reflective supervision that models safety, trust, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural humility—so supervisees can replicate the same with clients.

• Sustainable, ethical practice: concrete strategies to mitigate burnout, vicarious trauma, and secondary traumatic stress while improving judgment and care quality.

• System and identity in view: embed intersectionality and organizational context into every supervisory plan to reduce risk and increase equity.

Why this course?

• Supervision is a proven protective factor—learn to make it intentionally trauma-informed, not merely case oversight.

• Amie Bryant’s cross-setting leadership and trauma specialty translate principle into practice you can implement this week.

• Built for any setting (agency, private practice, training programs) with tools that scale to your team and context.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and define trauma, clinical supervision, and trauma-informed care in ethical, developmental, and systemic terms.

• Apply trauma-informed principles to cultivate competent, boundaried, and resilient clinicians who recognize limits and seek supervision appropriately.

• Integrate trauma-stewardship practices (regulation, reflective inquiry, parallel process awareness) that support supervisee growth and well-being.

Are your supervision meetings quietly mirroring the trauma your team treats—or actively repairing it? This course gives you the clarity, structure, and language to make supervision a reliable source of protection, development, and durable excellence.

Enroll today to strengthen clinician well-being, elevate care quality, and lead supervision that truly heals.

Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. It consists of 1.5 hours of video instruction and a course evaluation.

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 Amie Bryant, LCSW, CAS, ACS

Amie R. Bryant (she/her) is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and trainer with over 20 years of experience in mental health. She is the owner of Four Corners Counseling, LLC, and provides individual psychotherapy, clinical supervision & consultation, and professional training. Amie is a CCE Approved Clinical Supervisor, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and Certified EMDR Therapist, and holds a Certificate in Advanced Clinical Supervision from Smith College School of Social Work.

A former Director and Training Coordinator at Fort Lewis College Counseling Center, and longtime adjunct faculty member with the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, she has completed over 100 hours of group leadership training through the Matrix Leadership Institute, and is known for her relational, culturally affirming, and use-of-self–centered approach to supervision. She currently serves as contracted faculty for MSU Denver’s Front Porch Initiative and as an Essence-Oriented Therapeutics Consultant with True Success for All. A sought-after speaker, she regularly facilitates basic and advanced supervision trainings.

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

This course does not offer CE credits, just great content.

The same course is available for purchase and offers 1.5 CE hours for behavioral health clinicians. See "related products" below.

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.

You can click on the following links to view our policies:

• Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities.
• Cancellation Policy
• Grievance Policy
• Support Options
• Disclosure Statement