clinical supervision for licensed therapists
for the clinician who became competent and is ready to become more than that.
you’re here because…
You’re licensed. You’re good at this. You’ve sat with hundreds of clients, made hundreds of judgment calls, and built a clinical instinct that took years to develop. And somewhere along the way, the question shifted from “am I doing this right” to something quieter and harder to name: is this actually mine, or is it still the version of clinical work someone else taught me?
There are moments where you second-guess what you’re seeing. A client says something and you feel a pull toward an intervention, but you talk yourself out of it because you’re not sure if it’s right. You follow the protocol instead of the instinct, and then spend the commute home wondering if you made the right call.
Or maybe you’re solid with certain clients but find yourself less sure with others. The first-generation client carrying the weight of family obligation and cultural expectation. The queer client navigating identity in a world that wasn’t built for them. The client of color is sitting across from you in a system that has historically failed people who look like them. You weren’t trained for the full complexity of what walks into your office, and you feel that gap every time it shows up.
The tools that made you competent aren’t always the tools that help you trust your own voice. Competence is about following the model correctly. What comes after is different. It’s about knowing when to follow the model, when to depart from it, and why.
WHO THIS IS FOR
fully licensed clinicians seeking ongoing consultation
This is not supervision toward licensure hours. If you’re working toward licensure and need supervised hours, that’s a different relationship with different requirements, and I’d encourage you to find a supervisor who can provide that specific structure.
This is for clinicians who are already licensed and want a space to think out loud about their clinical work: cases that are sitting with you in ways you can’t quite name, patterns you’re noticing in yourself across multiple clients, moments where your training and your instinct seem to disagree, or the quieter question of what your clinical voice actually is versus what you were taught it should be.
The frequency is flexible. Some clinicians want a regular weekly or biweekly space. Others want consultation around a specific case or a specific period of growth, and meet less often or more intensively. We figure out what fits.
WHAT BRINGS CLINICIANS TO THIS WORK
the patterns that follow you into the room
A lot of what shows up in clinical supervision mirrors what shows up in the therapy work I do, just from the other chair.
If perfectionism and self-worth is something you recognize in yourself, it often shows up as the fear of getting it wrong with a client, the over-preparation, the post-session replay of everything you could have said better. Clinical supervision is often where that becomes visible enough to work with directly.
If people-pleasing and boundaries is familiar, it can show up as difficulty ending work with a client who’s no longer benefiting, difficulty naming a rupture in the therapeutic relationship, or a caseload that’s grown around what clients need rather than what you can sustainably hold.
If identity and life transitions resonates, it often shows up as a clinical identity that was built during training and hasn’t caught up to who you’ve become. Clinical supervision can be a place to ask what kind of clinician you actually want to be now, not just what you were taught to be.
For clinicians navigating the specific dynamics of being first-generation, Asian American, or queer in this field, much of what comes up connects to the same threads explored on the page for Asian American clients, the page for queer and LGBTQ+ clients, and the page for first-generation Americans and immigrants. The pressure to be exceptional, the difficulty trusting your own read on a situation, the loneliness of being one of the only clinicians in a room who shares your background. These show up in the therapy room as much as anywhere else.
WHAT THIS WORK FOCUSES ON
Every clinician is different, but clinical supervision tends to focus on some combination of:
- Developing clinical confidence and learning to trust your instincts in the moments that matter, rather than defaulting to the model when your instinct is telling you something else.
- Understanding how family systems, cultural context, and identity shape your client’s patterns, and how your own background and identity are showing up in your clinical response to them.
- Working with LGBTQ+ clients, first-generation Americans, immigrants, Asian Americans, and people of color with more nuance and less uncertainty, especially when their experiences differ significantly from your own.
- Identifying the specific moments where you lose access to your own clinical thinking, and building the capacity to stay present there instead of retreating to protocol.
- Developing a clinical voice where your interventions feel like yours, not borrowed from a manual.
HOW I WORK
the lens I bring
Most supervision focuses on what you did and whether it was correct. I’m more interested in how you think and whether you trust it.
My foundational lens is intersectional and identity-affirming therapy, and that extends to how I think about clinical work and consultation. I don’t believe clinical judgment exists separately from who you are. Your identity, your history, and the contexts you’ve navigated all shape how you sit with clients, what you notice, and what you might be avoiding. I look at the full context of who your client is, the systems they’ve moved through, and how your own background and identity are showing up in the room, because the therapeutic relationship doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and clinical supervision shouldn’t either.
If I notice something in how you’re talking about a case, including something about how you’re talking about it, not just the content, I’ll name it. I’ll tell you what I’m hearing, what it might mean clinically, and what I’d be curious about in the room. The goal isn’t for you to sound like me, or to hand you a better technique. It’s for you to sound more like yourself, with sharper clinical thinking and more confidence in the moments where it actually counts.
Sometimes what’s most useful is looking at what’s happening between us. The dynamic that shows up in clinical supervision often mirrors the dynamic you’re describing with a client, a concept sometimes called parallel process. If you’re avoiding something with me, there’s a good chance something similar is happening in the room with your client. This is part of why I draw on relational therapy and attachment-based therapy in clinical supervision for therapists, not just as frameworks to discuss, but as lenses for what’s actually happening in front of us.
Clinical supervision is also a place to deepen how you use specific approaches in your own clinical work. If you’re trained in cognitive behavioral therapy or dialectical behavior therapy but want help applying them more precisely with a particular client or presentation, or if you’re trying to integrate a mindfulness-based or intersectional lens into work you were trained to do without one, that’s exactly the kind of question this space is for.
WHAT SESSIONS LOOK LIKE
what working together looks like
Sessions are fully via telehealth. Length and frequency depend on what you’re looking for: some clinicians prefer a standard 45-minute session on a regular cadence, others prefer a longer 90-minute session for deeper case consultation, and some want an intensive block of time to work through something specific.
The first session is mostly orientation. I want to understand your training, your current practice, what’s bringing you to clinical supervision now, and what you’re hoping to get out of it. From there, the work follows what you bring: a case, a pattern, a question about your own clinical identity, or something that’s been sitting with you that you haven’t had anywhere to put.
meet your private practice consultant
hi, i’m kristie
a licensed therapist, consultant, and the founder of Uncover Mental Health Counseling, a group practice based in New York.
I’ve been on both sides of supervision: as someone who needed it for licensure, and as someone who has provided it to clinicians at my own practice for years. I know the difference between clinical supervision that’s just procedural and clinical supervision that actually changes how you work. I aim for the second.
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WHAT CHANGES
what’s different after this work
- The shifts in clinical supervision tend to show up first in how you think about your own work, and then in the work itself.
- Cases that used to feel stuck start to make more sense, not because you’re given an answer, but because you have a clearer view of what’s actually happening, including what’s happening in you as the clinician.
- The gap between what you were taught and what you actually believe starts to narrow. You stop performing a clinical identity that was handed to you and start operating from one that’s actually yours.
- You trust your own read on a situation more. Not blindly, but with a clearer sense of when your instinct is worth following and when it’s worth examining further.
- And the loneliness that can come with clinical work, especially the parts that don’t fit neatly into a textbook, starts to have somewhere to go.
CONSULTING FOR YOUR PRACTICE
If what’s coming up for you is less about clinical work itself and more about how you’re running your practice, the niche, the pricing, the marketing, the caseload, that’s a related but different conversation. I also offer private practice consulting for therapists building or growing a practice.
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Different needs call for different formats. Whether you want a regular clinical supervision space, a deeper dive into a specific case, or a focused block of time to work through something significant, there are multiple ways we can work together.
clinical supervision session (45 minutes) Ongoing clinical supervision on a regular cadence, for clinicians who want a ongoing space to think through their work.
clinical supervision intensive (90 minutes) An extended session for deeper case consultation or a specific clinical question that needs more room than a standard session allows.
VIP sprint (3 hours) A focused block of time for a significant clinical question, transition, or period of growth, working through what’s keeping you stuck and building a clear path forward.
Session
$375
45 minutes
Intensive
$750
90 minutes
consultation
free
15 minutes
New here? I offer a free 15-minute consultation to talk through what you’re looking for and figure out whether this is a good fit.