Therapy and or SUD Counseling is an inherently private undertaking, with no managers or direct supervisors. Instead, trainees and therapists seeking additional insight from colleagues use clinical supervision to sharpen their skills. 

During clinical supervision, a trainee provider meets with a more experienced provider to discuss cases, treatment strategies, and other important topics. Daily work with distraught people can be inherently distressing, so a key aspect of clinical supervision is often helping therapists learn to compartmentalize their own emotions and practice better self-care. Supervision requirements vary with the degree and license a therapist holds. In most cases, supervision takes a year or longer to complete. For example, in most states thrapist and or SUD counselrs must complete a clinical supervision course. 

WHY IS CLINICAL SUPERVISION IMPORTANT?

Therapy and or SUD Counseling is both an art and a science. While it’s possible to learn the basic scientific principles in school, the art of theraputic services can prove challenging. How will you deal with a client who can’t stop crying? What will you do if a client never speaks or only seems interested in talking about you? How can you measure progress in therapy? How can you prevent your own biases and emotions from intruding upon the therapeutic process? These are difficult questions with complex answers. Clinical supervision prepares you to tackle these and many other issues. 

Therapists and or SUD Counselors have an ethical duty to protect their clients’ best interests and provide quality therapy. Doing so can prove difficult when you’re learning. Clinical supervision allows you to learn by doing, without risking harm to your clients or treating them as guinea pigs. 

Supervision offers ongoing feedback from someone with more experience and skill. Rather than relying on vague principles from a textbook or classroom, you’ll get rapid feedback on real-world therapy dilemmas. Your supervisor can also provide insight into your personal style and guidance on how to sharpen your skills as well as how to adapt your style to the complex needs of diverse clients. 

Clinical supervision may also refer to ongoing consultation with and support from other mental health professionals, though the technical term for this is consultation, not supervision. For example, therapists in the same practice may consult with one another about difficult cases or regularly review one another’s work. In this context, supervision can sharpen a therapist’s diagnostic skills and help them provide better treatment. 

Clinical supervision supports trainee mental health professionals by offering oversight and support from a more experienced provider. To become licensed to practice, all mental health providers must complete a minimum number of therapy hours under clinical supervision. The specific requirements vary depending on the license a therapist seeks and the state in which they practice.

It is important that all professionals providing family or addiction interventions, SUD/mental health counseling, treatment and care have beem resolving their own issues, unresolved trauma abuse, etc.

It is near impossible to to develop and honest, ethical and transparent relationship and attunement with the client.  If an unhealthy or unhealed professional works with a client, far too many project it onto their clients, counter-transferrence and or enage inappropriately. Self care is critical for the professional to support their clients with positive outcomes. 

We provide the education, trainings and mentoring necessary as a part of our supervision to support the needs for our client to identify the issues and make a committment to work towards wellness as a professional. 

Let us not forget that the professional needs to be knowledgeable about ethical standards and HIPPA laws and adhere to them at all times with working with their clients and in a SUD/Mental Heath enviornment.  We offer these trainings at no cost to our clients. 

Professionas we work with are Addiction Couselors, Mental Health Techs, Mental Health Clinicans, Family and Addiction Interventionists, Pastoral Care & Counseling leadership and Christian Counselors.


 

Clinical supervision is a weekly service.  We offer the services in 3 months (12 sessions) or 6 months (24 sessions)  intervals. 

Although not recommended, you may also committ to individuals sessions however it does not guarantee eyou a same day each week to meet for supevision.

Clinical Supervision is a serious committment.  We do not offer Clinical Supervision in single session itnervals. 

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For additional information please call (916) 529-2343 or email: drj@onsitestrategies.com

We offer Clinical Supervision by ZOOM - virtual sessions or in person at our office. Sessions are schedued for 50 minutes each.