Trauma-Informed Supervision
Cultivating Well-Being and Competence in Practice
Enroll in the Online Self-Study and complete the training on your own schedule.
1.5 CE hours available for behavioral health clinicians completing the Online Self-Study
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.
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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.
Instructor
Amie Bryant, LCSW, CAS, ACS
Amie R. Bryant, LCSW, CAS (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.
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.
This is a non-interactive, self-study program and consists of over 1.5 hours of video instruction and a post-test.
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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:
Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.
This program was recorded on September 11, 2025.
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