SUPERVISION
Supervision that teaches you to see function, not only to follow a model.
Who This Is For
I work with clinicians building toward licensure, newly licensed clinicians finding their footing, experienced clinicians who want a thinking partner, and supervisors who want their own supervision work supported.
You may already know the techniques and still feel unsure about what is actually happening in the room or which direction to take. Often the effort to get it right has become part of the problem.
You may also want supervision that grows your clinical reasoning and not only your list of interventions.
Supervision here is a structured relationship that develops how you see and respond, and it goes further than reviewing cases.
The Goal
The aim is for you to leave each session with clearer reasoning and a concrete next step, and over time to need less scaffolding because your own functional thinking has strengthened.
Along the way, supervision protects your clients and supports your growth as a professional.
How We Work
Supervision runs on a regular rhythm that fits your setting and licensure needs. We might meet weekly, and we might meet every other week, individually or in a small group. The approach is set up to fit you.
You bring cases, recordings, or notes, and we look closely at what is happening: what the client's behavior is doing in context, which process is worth targeting, and how your response can evoke, model, or reinforce movement. We also make room for what shows up in you as the clinician. The structure follows what you need at that point.
Documentation is part of the work. We review notes together, including use of the Functional Process Note, so your records reflect your clinical reasoning. Sessions take place through video conferencing or in person.
What you can expect
As your supervisor, I will:
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Help you build functional case formulations that connect what a client does to context, history, and consequences
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Support you in choosing one process to target and a response that evokes, models, or reinforces it
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Give direct, specific feedback on your reasoning and your choices in session
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Help you write documentation that is clear, defensible, and reflective of your thinking
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Attend to ethics, boundaries, and professional development throughout
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Keep supervision a place where curiosity is expected and mistakes become material for learning
My Approach
I work from Functional Contextualism, which asks what a behavior does in a particular context rather than what it looks like on the surface. Relational Frame Theory helps us see how language and thought shape what clients and clinicians notice, avoid, and pursue.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy then gives us the applied processes, so that ACT becomes a flexible way of seeing rather than a collection of exercises.
I use frameworks developed through years of supervising and training clinicians: the Evoke, Model, Reinforce triad, the SEED and SHAPE frameworks, and the Lenses of ACT Practice, a living framework shaped over five years by supervisors, residents, and participants.
Supervision stays useful across theoretical orientations, so clinicians who do not identify mainly with ACT can still use the functional reasoning.
I bring more than twenty years in behavioral health and years of directing a training organization and supervising clinicians and trainees, so the work stays practical. Every clinician is an N of 1, so supervision is adapted to your setting, your population, and your style.
I work with a limited number of supervisees at a time. We begin with a written supervision agreement [confirm] that covers expectations, consent for recordings, and any documentation your employer or licensing board requires, and we review progress together along the way.
Format & Commitment
Supervision Versus Consultation
Supervision carries oversight responsibilities that consultation does not, and it can count toward licensure where applicable. In consultation, you keep full clinical responsibility and the focus is on your development and your practice. If you are unsure which fits, we can talk it through on an introductory call, and if consultation would serve you better I will say so.