Supporting Supervisee Growth from Novice to Advanced Practitioner

Clinical supervision does more than monitor skill development; it helps emerging clinicians bridge the gap between graduate training and the complex realities of clinical practice, where boundaries, confidence, role clarity, and professional identity are continually tested.

In this training, supervisors will have an opportunity to consider how supervision can become a more intentional developmental process that supports supervisees as they grow from novice clinicians toward more advanced levels of practice.

Ashley Charbonneau, LCSW, LAC, ACS, brings experience as a therapist, evaluator, supervisor, consultant, and professor. Her background in clinical supervision, professional resilience, accountability, and survivor healing informs her ability to help supervisors recognize the developmental needs of supervisees and respond with practical, stage-appropriate support.

Ashley’s approach reframes supervision as more than teaching techniques or reinforcing theoretical orientation. She identifies the real-world gaps that can affect supervisees’ transition into clinical practice, including challenges related to professional boundaries, role clarity, and translating conceptual knowledge into practice with clients. She highlights how these gaps can impact supervisees’ confidence, decision-making, and professional identity and offers supervision strategies that support identity formation across stages of competency.

This course will explore common gaps in graduate training that can leave supervisees underprepared for the realities of clinical work, emphasizing practical and developmentally appropriate supervision strategies that promote growth along the continuum from novice to advanced practitioner.

Key Takeaways:

• Graduate training gaps: Identify common areas where supervisees may need additional support as they move from classroom learning into real-world clinical practice.
• Developmental supervision support: Learn how to support supervisees in building professional boundaries, clinical confidence, and a stronger professional identity.
• Practical supervision strategies: Apply developmentally appropriate strategies that promote supervisee growth from novice toward more advanced levels of practice.

Why This Course?

• Built for clinical supervisors: This course focuses on the practical realities supervisors face when helping emerging clinicians move beyond skill acquisition into confident and ethical practice.
• Taught by an experienced supervisor and educator: Ashley Charbonneau’s work as a supervisor, consultant, professor, and author gives her a strong foundation for addressing supervisee development with clarity and practical relevance.
• Aligned with TCI’s mission: Telehealth Certification Institute provides continuing education designed to equip healthcare professionals with meaningful learning opportunities that support high-quality care, professional growth, and ethical practice.

Learning Objectives:

• Name common gaps in graduate training that affect supervisees’ transition into clinical practice.
• Examine ways to support supervisees in building professional boundaries, clinical confidence, and professional identity throughout their developmental growth.
• Apply supervision strategies that promote supervisee development along the continuum from novice to advanced practitioner.

Supervisees do not become confident, ethical clinicians through skill acquisition alone; they need supervision that recognizes where they are developmentally and helps them grow with intention. This training offers clinical supervisors a focused opportunity to strengthen the way they support supervisee development, professional identity, and readiness for the complex realities of clinical practice.