Clinical Supervision
LPC Supervision
Develop your clinical voice with depth, confidence, and integrity.
Clinical supervision is more than meeting a licensing requirement.
It is the space where you learn how to think like a therapist, recognize what happens inside you during the work, strengthen your clinical judgment, integrate theory with real-world practice, and develop a professional identity that feels grounded and authentically yours.
I provide clinical supervision for Texas LPC Associates who are seeking a reflective, relational, trauma-informed approach to professional development.
My goal is not to create therapists who practice exactly as I do.
My goal is to help you become increasingly thoughtful, ethical, clinically competent, self-aware, and confident in the therapist you are becoming.
A Whole-Person Approach to Clinical Development
Therapists bring more than techniques into the counseling room.
We bring our nervous systems, histories, identities, cultural experiences, assumptions, strengths, vulnerabilities, and ways of relating.
Clinical supervision should make room for all of these.
Supervision is both educational and relational. You should leave supervision with greater clarity about your clients — and greater understanding of yourself as a clinician.
Together, we may explore:
- Case conceptualization
- Clinical assessment and treatment planning
- Trauma-informed care
- Ethical decision-making
- Therapist identity development
- Countertransference and emotional responses
- Boundaries and therapeutic relationships
- Cultural humility and anti-oppressive practice
- Nervous-system awareness
- Professional confidence
- Documentation and clinical responsibility
- Private-practice development when appropriate
- Burnout, over-responsibility, and sustainability in the helping professions
Clinical Modalities and Areas of Integration
My supervision is informed by more than 20 years of clinical practice and experience integrating evidence-based, trauma-informed, somatic, and contemplative approaches.
Depending on your training, scope of competence, and clinical setting, supervision may include discussion and case conceptualization informed by:
Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy
We explore how trauma affects attachment, emotional regulation, relationships, identity, behavior, cognition, the autonomic nervous system, and safety and trust. You will learn to distinguish between trauma processing and trauma-informed treatment and to recognize when stabilization should precede deeper processing.
EMDR-Informed Case Conceptualization
For Associates who are appropriately trained or pursuing EMDR education, supervision may include discussion of trauma history and target identification, resourcing and stabilization, readiness for processing, dissociation, complex trauma, and treatment pacing. Clinical supervision does not replace formal EMDR training or consultation requirements.
Somatic and Nervous-System-Informed Therapy
We consider what is happening not only cognitively, but physiologically. You may develop greater awareness of fight, flight, freeze, collapse, and appeasement responses; hyperarousal and hypoarousal; somatic cues; grounding and orienting; window of tolerance; therapist nervous-system responses; co-regulation; and embodied boundaries.
Internal Family Systems-Informed Parts Work
Parts-oriented conceptualization can help us understand seemingly contradictory behaviors with greater compassion. We may explore protective, critical, caretaking, avoidant, and vulnerable parts, as well as internal polarization and therapist parts activated by clinical work.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
ACT can support work around values, psychological flexibility, experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, acceptance, present-moment awareness, and values-guided action. ACT principles are especially helpful when clients are learning to live differently even when difficult thoughts or emotions remain present.
Cognitive Behavioral Approaches
We may integrate CBT concepts involving thought patterns, cognitive distortions, behavior cycles, avoidance, exposure principles, core beliefs, behavioral activation, and skills development. The emphasis is on using cognitive approaches within the larger context of the client's lived experience.
DBT-Informed Practice
Supervision may include emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, validation, dialectical thinking, crisis management, and therapist boundaries.
Mindfulness and Contemplative Practice
Mindfulness can support both client care and therapist development — increasing present-moment awareness, emotional tolerance, reflective capacity, awareness of therapist reactivity, and intentional clinical decision-making.
Yoga-Informed and Embodiment-Based Interventions
When clinically appropriate and within scope of competence, supervision may include discussion of breath awareness, grounding, gentle movement, interoception, body awareness, and embodiment. These practices are not substitutes for psychotherapy. They are possible clinical tools that may complement treatment when appropriately used.
Relational and Family-System Trauma
A particular area of my clinical interest is helping therapists understand clients who developed within emotionally harmful, chronically invalidating, controlling, or unpredictable relational systems.
Rather than simply asking what symptom needs to be eliminated, we consider what adaptation once served the client and whether it remains necessary today.
These clients may present with:
- Chronic self-doubt
- Hypervigilance
- People-pleasing
- Difficulty setting boundaries
- Over-responsibility
- Perfectionism
- Emotional caretaking
- Shame
- Fear of conflict
- Difficulty trusting their perceptions
- Attachment wounds
- Loss of identity within relationships
Anti-Oppressive and Culturally Responsive Supervision
Clinical work never occurs outside of culture, power, identity, access, and social context.
I believe good supervision requires humility. Neither supervisor nor therapist has complete knowledge of another person's lived experience. We work to become curious about what we may be missing, recognize the influence of our own perspectives, and practice in ways that protect client dignity and autonomy.
Supervision includes thoughtful attention to:
- Power within the therapeutic relationship
- Power within the supervisory relationship
- Culture and identity
- Socioeconomic access
- Bias and assumptions
- Privilege and marginalization
- Institutional systems
- Diagnostic practices
- Client autonomy and professional authority
The Therapist's Nervous System Matters Too
Helping professionals can become highly skilled at focusing on everyone except themselves.
These experiences do not automatically mean something is wrong with you as a therapist. They are clinical information. Learning to recognize them early can help protect both you and your clients.
Supervision creates room to notice:
- When a client activates something personal
- Rescue impulses and overfunctioning
- Fear of disappointing clients
- Difficulty maintaining boundaries
- Self-doubt and perfectionism
- Avoidance
- Emotional exhaustion and compassion fatigue
- Burnout
What You Can Expect From Me as a Supervisor
Supportive without avoiding difficult conversations
Supervision should feel psychologically safe, but safety does not mean the absence of accountability.
Direct and transparent
When I have a concern about clinical judgment, ethics, boundaries, competence, or client welfare, I will address it clearly.
Collaborative
I want to understand how you think rather than simply tell you what to think.
Developmental
The supervision needs of a new Associate are different from those of someone approaching independent licensure.
Trauma-informed
We will pay attention to pacing, safety, power, relationship, and nervous-system responses.
Ethically grounded
Client welfare, professional integrity, legal requirements, and scope of competence remain central.
Committed to your professional independence
The goal of supervision is eventually for you not to need me. I want you to leave the Associate period knowing how to evaluate clinical situations, seek consultation appropriately, recognize your limitations, trust your developing expertise, and continue learning throughout your career.
Texas LPC Associate Requirements
Texas LPC Associates must practice under the supervision of a Board-approved LPC Supervisor and may not practice independently.
Current Texas requirements include:
- Completion of 3,000 hours of supervised professional counseling experience
- At least 1,500 hours of direct client counseling
- A minimum supervised-experience period of 18 months
- Ongoing direct supervision while practicing as an LPC Associate
- A current Supervisory Agreement on file as required by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council
- Continued supervision until the Associate receives the independent LPC license
Current rules require a minimum of four hours of supervision per month while the Associate is engaged in counseling. Specific requirements can change, so Associates are responsible for reviewing current Board rules throughout the supervision period.
Official Resources
Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors
Supervision Structure
Supervision may include a combination of:
- Individual supervision
- Case consultation
- Clinical conceptualization
- Review of documentation
- Ethical consultation
- Professional-development planning
- Skills development
- Reflective supervision
- Review of applicable Texas LPC rules
Texas currently requires LPC Associates to receive at least four hours of supervision per month while actively providing counseling services.
No more than 50% of an Associate's total required supervision hours may currently be completed through group supervision.
Specific scheduling, fees, cancellation policies, emergency consultation procedures, documentation expectations, and responsibilities are reviewed before beginning the supervisory relationship.
Is My Supervision Style a Good Fit for You?
We may be a strong fit if you are looking for supervision that goes beyond: "Tell me what intervention to use."
You do not have to become a perfect therapist during your Associate years. You need to become a therapist who knows how to remain curious, seek consultation, tolerate uncertainty, recognize limitations, repair mistakes, and continue developing.
You may be looking for a supervisor who will help you ask:
- What is happening underneath this client's presentation?
- What is the client's nervous system communicating?
- What relational pattern is emerging?
- What am I feeling in response to this client?
- What assumptions am I making?
- Where is power operating in this situation?
- What belongs to the client — and what belongs to me?
- What intervention fits this client's readiness?
- What is clinically indicated? What is ethically required?
- What do I still need to learn?
Inquire About Clinical Supervision
If you are a Texas LPC Associate seeking thoughtful, trauma-informed, integrative supervision, I welcome the opportunity to explore whether we may be a good fit.
Our initial conversation gives us an opportunity to discuss your clinical setting, populations you serve, your previous training, your areas of interest, your professional goals, your supervision needs, current availability, fees, expectations and responsibilities, and whether my areas of competence align with the work you are doing.
Supervision services are provided in accordance with current Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council and Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors requirements.