This comprehensive six-part bundled training series provides behavioral health professionals, social workers, counselors, and clinical leaders with a deep foundation in effective clinical supervision practices. Designed to progressively build supervisory competence, the series combines evidence-based frameworks, practical applications, ethical guidance, multicultural awareness, and leadership strategies to prepare participants for the complex realities of supervision in behavioral health settings.

Throughout the series, participants will explore the core principles of competent supervision, including supervisory roles and responsibilities, learning and performance cycles, feedback and evaluation techniques, supervisory agreements, professional development planning, and documentation practices. The training also examines advanced supervisory topics such as boundaries, dual relationships, burnout, transference and countertransference, multiculturalism and diversity, supervisory working alliances, learning styles, supervision models, theory-based approaches, and the use of varied supervision methods and techniques.

In addition, participants will gain practical tools for navigating ethical and legal challenges, addressing supervisee competency concerns, implementing anticipatory guidance, and understanding the opportunities and limitations of telesupervision. Real-world case studies, reflective exercises, assessments, and applied learning activities are integrated throughout the program to strengthen supervisory confidence and effectiveness.

Upon completion of the six-part series, participants will be able to:

• Define the foundations and complexities of clinical supervision
• Differentiate between administrative and clinical supervision roles
• Apply supervision models, learning cycles, and theory-based approaches in practice
• Develop supervisory agreements, documentation processes, and individual development plans
• Conduct supervisee assessments and address barriers to professional growth
• Recognize and respond to burnout, transference, countertransference, and ineffective supervision dynamics
• Build culturally responsive supervisory relationships and address diversity-related challenges
• Strengthen supervisory working alliances and avoid common supervisory pitfalls
• Utilize varied supervision methods and techniques based on supervisee learning styles
• Navigate ethical, legal, and professional competency issues in supervision
• Implement effective supervision strategies in both in-person and telesupervision environments

This bundled series offers a practical and comprehensive pathway for developing confident, ethical, culturally responsive, and competent clinical supervisors capable of supporting professional growth while promoting high-quality client care.

Social workers completing this course receive 18 General Skill Building asynchronous continuing education credits.

For other board approvals, this course qualifies for 18 General Skill Building of continuing education training.

Course Instructor: Jodi Geis-Crowder, MS, LPC, ACS

Recording Dates:

1. 02/08/2025
2. 03/22/2025
3. 04/26/2025
4. 05/03/2025
5. 05/31/2025
6. 06/14/2025