The Telemental Health Supervisor Toolkit
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1 CE Hour available for behavioral health clinicians
This presentation discusses the barriers and challenges of both supervising counselors providing telemental health counseling and providing supervision via telehealth. The presentation reviews the legal and ethical concerns, developmental process of supervision and the “soft skills” required to conduct therapy and supervision via telemental health. The presenters provide a toolkit for participants that includes templates for how to create supervision contracts that are specific to telemental health and innovative interventions to engage the client and supervisee in the therapeutic and supervisory process.
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This presentation will discuss the barriers and challenges of both supervising counselors providing telemental health counseling and providing supervision via telehealth. The presentation will review the legal and ethical concerns, developmental process of supervision and the “soft skills” required to conduct therapy and supervision via telemental health. The presenters will provide a toolkit for participants that includes templates for how to create supervision contracts that are specific to telemental health and innovative interventions to engage the client and supervisee in the therapeutic and supervisory process.
This course was recorded March 22, 2022
Upon completion of this training professionals will be able to do the following:
- 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.
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.
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This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation. The course may include required reading.
This program was recorded on March 22, 2022
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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.
The course was so informative and I was glued to my screen for the entire duration. I received so much knowledge concerning ethics in telehealth and I am greatly encouraged to read about all the standards and policies that pertain to my practice. Thank you!.