I have been a social worker since 1997 and had the opportunity to work with a variety of people. I have experience in child protection, foster care and adoption. I have also worked with geriatric population in a hospital setting. The last 10 years I have had the privilege to work in schools as part of the mental health team. I also have been in the field of private counseling and have enjoyed working with ages 5 - 70 years old. I have treated clinical issues such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse issues, personality disorders, low self-esteem, autism and academic struggles and a variety of relationship issues. The counseling techniques I utilize are a variety of modalities like cognitive behavioral therapy, solution focused, and person centered. I also explore other modalities to assist the clients in their presenting issues.
The purpose of clinical supervision is to monitor and ensure the welfare of clients, promote the development of supervisees' clinical and professional identity, evaluate the competence of supervisees and fulfill requirements for licensure. It is my belief that as a supervisor I must meet the developmental needs of the supervisee. I often alternate between roles based on the needs of the supervisee. In the beginning, I may take a more direct feedback approach, and as the supervisee gains more experience, my role may change into a more collaborative approach.
In my supervision, I require that students are directly observed by myself while providing counseling services to clients (known as "tele-supervision"). This is to occur one time every three months on a date agreed upon between the supervisor and the supervisee. Tele-supervision is to occur a total of eight times during the span of the two-year supervision experience. The supervisee is required to obtain written permission from their client prior to the tele-supervision taking place and have the signed document uploaded into the client's file.
During the course of completing 100 supervision hours there are two formats that can be implemented (upon availability):