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Clinical Supervision

For social workers seeking ethical, feedback-rich, and clinically focused supervision.

 
 

Stop settling and create change.

 

Sound familiar?

 

  • Reluctant to accept a job you want because you have to find your own supervision

  • Afraid of getting audited and notes not standing up to QA

  • Not feeling confident in your clinical strategies

  • Leadership “too busy” for your questions 

  • You never say ‘no’ to clients

  • Unsure how to measure true client progress and change

  • A helper and changemaker-24/7

  • Questioning your passion for social work

  • Doing your own homework for legal and ethical scenarios

  • Burnout is a “badge of honor”

  • Negotiating salary is for the ‘greedy’

 
 

You want your work experiences to be manageable and fulfilling, and move you further into your career.

You don’t want ADDED stress, burnout, and unfulfilling client contact FROM POOR supervisION.

You deserve professional respect, access to knowledge, and to be seen for your efforts in protecting the social welfare of the public. Supervision should be accessible and a place to enhance your skills for effective social work practice in the modern era.

 
 

We’re here to tell you:

Supervision that is instructive, structured, evidence-based and clinically-informed can help protect against the anxiety, burnout, stress, and delayed test-taking reported by social workers.

What we’ll work on

Learn

From our collective mistakes, lived experience, and our clients. We will ‘bow to them’ as if they are our teacher and use them in a systematic way. Appreciating mistakes will allow you to refine your practice.

Building

Strong clinical competencies is a primary focus for supervisees who plan to work in the mental health field. We practice finding and implementing appropriate interventions. No more ‘throwing spaghetti at the wall’ and hoping it sticks.

Internalize

Legal and ethical responsibilities. These take precedence in client-centered work, so we continually assess for changes and updates. We will refer to our core values and ethics as a mainframe for decision-making.

Practice

Cultural humility with a lens of inclusivity. Embody not knowing everything about other people and being teachable.

Inoculate

Against chronic stress and burnout that can be found in clinical social work. True self-care is more than just taking vacations. It is knowing the boundaries within all of your roles.

Prepare

For the law and ethics and clinical exams. Preparing for your future as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker using test-taking strategies and study prep.

 
 

What if

Work did love you back?

 

It is likely that you have heard the rumor that being poor, burned out, and a jack-of-all-trades, means that you are a “good social worker”. What if it is really because we have been trained as part of a larger, and outdated, socio-political system that doesn’t value social work? Now we understand why social workers are often treated as disposable, despite the value they provide

But what if you could leave your job at the door and be present with your friends and family when you were done working? What if you could stop signing up for more training and go deeper into what you are already doing? Good supervision will give you the knowledge and strategies to practice confidently, set up the habits that ensure your work is fulfilling, and create a clear path forward in your career.  

The advocacy necessary for social workers to promote the best interests of their clients first starts with a disciplined ability to protect their own—a skill learned in high-quality supervision.

 
 

Frequently Asked Questions about clinical supervision

  • We want to see you get licensed! We ask that you come to supervision prepared to have a discussion about what’s relevant to your duties and career path. Supervisees are expected to keep an accurate accounting of their weekly hours, prepare an agenda for supervision, learn from their peers during case consultations, have (mostly) complete documentation within 48 hours, and internalize legal and ethical responsibilities. We also hope that during your time with us, you will prepare (and pass) for the law and ethics exam, if you haven’t taken it already.

  • We have relatable education and experience, so we know what you’re facing. We all have work experience in some of the most common postgraduate settings, such as county behavioral health, county children and family services, outpatient crisis work, non-profits, and hospitals. We have each been supervising between 3-6 years at the post MSW level. We are most familiar supervising as third party field instructors and supervisors who don't work for the same agency as the supervisee.

    Self-compassion, humane goals, self awareness and committed action are how we ultimately discover our convictions and ourselves in order to live authentically.

  • We’ve had the best experience providing supervision when everybody is comfortable, casual, and collaborative during the process. We know that there are no universal rules that work for everyone and that mistakes will be made by everybody at some point. We just want to be transparent, embracing of mistakes, and safe people to turn to. Consistency, being yourself, protecting your time and energy, and loving the things that love you back is what makes good supervision. Simon Sinek said that leadership is not a rank, but a choice to look out for the person on your left and your right. We want to look out for you.

Knowledgeable. Confident. Balanced.

It’s possible.

Our commitment

All of you is welcome here.

When you work with us, we won’t shy away from the hard or taboo parts of life: sex, money, cultural messages, oppression, body shaming—it’s all fair game. We give you permission to share freely, embrace your authenticity, and lean into your own intuition.

Clinical supervision with us is:

  • Culturally responsive

  • LGBTQ-friendly

  • Trauma-informed

  • Body positive

  • Sex-worker allied

  • Social-justice-informed