Thresholds
Becoming An Approved Supervisor
October 25-26, 2024
16 CEUs
Pioneer Square, Seattle
& Virtually
Join seasoned clinicians, supervisors, and educators Abby Wong-Heffter and Nicole Greenwald for a two-day, immerse experience that centers an embodied, communal approach to becoming a Washington approved supervisor.
In this two-day, immersive training you’ll learn to:
Differentiate between supervision, consultation, and teaching
Understand models of supervision and locate your unique supervisor identity
Assess supervisory liability and identify best practices to protect your practice
Draft an Informed Consent for Clinical Supervision
Develop effective documentation and record-keeping systems
Develop a framework for evaluation and practice providing constructive feedback
Hone skills for working with interpersonal dynamics in supervision
Deepen awareness of systemic realities and their impact on clinical practice, including the supervisor/supervisory relationship
Experiential & Collaborative
This workshop will flow between teaching, dialogue, and space for collaborative, hands-on work and practice. There will be space for questions, feedback, and consultation throughout this two-day intensive. You’ll leave with the awareness, resources, and community needed to begin supervising clinicians!
Abby and Nicole will offer real-life vignettes from a variety of clinical contexts so you can tangibly work with the developmental arc of the supervisory journey. You’ll develop skills and postures for effectively attuning to supervisees throughout each stage of their development, including the integration (graduation/culmination) phase and more context dynamics like ethically forced terminations.
You’ll also receive an imagination and invitation to collaboration, community, and continued learning as supervisors.
Meet Your Guides
Abby Wong-Heffter
Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, Consultant & Teacher
Abby (she/her) resides and works on occupied Duwamish land and identifies as a cis, straight, neuro-typical, able-bodied, thin-privileged, mixed-Chinese woman of color. She finds herself deeply curious and passionate about how our early relationships form us. She specializes as a trauma and abuse therapist, specifically engaging through the lens of attachment. She works with transracial adult adoptees, survivors of sexual and spiritual abuse, and those engaging racial identity. In addition to practicing therapy, she supervises, teaches and trains.
Abby previously taught at The Seattle School as Affiliate Faculty, created the MACP Concentration in Trauma and Abuse and its curriculum. She is a founder of the Allender Center where she trained and supervised clinicians who sought to specialize in Trauma-Informed Narrative Therapy. She currently teaches and trains at Art of Living Counseling Center.
Learn more about Abby
Nicole Greenwald
Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, & Consultant
Nicole (she/her) is a soulful healer who bravely wades into the depths of the human experience and invites us to look up and dream. At the heart of her practice is a steadfast belief that our need for human connection is enduring. Her work as a psychotherapist, educator, consultant, gatherer, and artist is rooted in community as medicine.
She has 14 years in practice as a psychotherapist and specializes in trauma and abuse, C-PTSD, identity, grief, and soulfulness (creativity/communion/spirit).
Nicole has 20 years of experience in higher ed and non-profit leadership and provides consulting services for businesses, non-profits, and creatives focused on sustainability, social justice, and cooperative models.
She has long been inspired by and devoted to the beauty of mentorship and collaboration. One expression of that is her work with clinical supervisees and supervision of supervisors. She is the co-Founder and Executive Director of Shelterwood Collective, a cooperative providing community, mentorship, and business administration support to healing practitioners.
Learn more about Nicole
Our Why
We care deeply about the social change and collective well-being. This is why we are therapists, but it’s also why we are educators and mentors. We believe that the healing that happens in counseling relationships is meant to extend out into our client’s relationships and communities. This is sacred work and it requires thoughtful presence, courage, and skill. Many new clinicians have received their training amid collective trauma and in increasing virtual environments. We see a need for embodied, holistic clinical supervisors to support and develop therapists in a particularly fraught era.
We both completed trainings to become approved supervisors and we’ve mentored supervisees as they later stepped into the role of supervisor, too. We believe there is a need for supervision training that:
centers identity, systems-thinking, and social justice
offers a framework for vulnerability and collaboration
integrates embodied, somatic approaches for learning, growing, and sustaining
offers imagination and tools for launching and deepening this new facet of your clinical work
Our training goes beyond the legal and practical components to provide a development framework and embodied practice of supervision, consultation, and mentorship. We are excited to create a creative, human learning space with you.
Threshold People
We believe that the work of the supervision is to come alongside developing clinicians as they navigate the liminal phase.
What do we mean by this?
The journey of becoming embodies three phases — separation, liminality, and integration.
In the separation phase, we step away from our current identity to prepare ourselves to step into role or purpose. This phase involves risk, shedding, challenge, and growth.
The liminal phase is the transition period between the old and the new. Our new identity is still in formation and this phase holds ambiguity, experimentation, awkwardness, and honing.
The integration phase is the culmination of the journey. We are fully embodied in our new identity and purpose. This phase holds rituals of initiation and an embrace of creativity and community.
As supervisors we have the privilege of serving as threshold people — offering wisdom, space, support, deepening as clinicians journey through the liminal phase of their journey toward an integrative, embodied embrace of their unique identities as healing practitioners.
All the Details
Authorization
This training meets the requirements to become an approved supervision in Washington State as defined by WAC 246-809-234. Your full participation grants 15 continuing education units, including 6 profession law & ethics.
This training has been authorized and approved by the NASW Washington State Chapter. Our provider #1975-507. Licensed social workers, marriage and family therapists, and mental health counselors are eligible.
When you complete this training and the 25 required hours of supervision experience* you will be authorized to provide approved, direct supervision for associate-level clinicians. The timing of this training aligns with upcoming graduations and new clinicians entering the field.
*We’ll go over this requirement in the training, including tangible ways to meet fulfill this requirement. Many of you have already met it!
Who
This training is for counselings, therapists, and social workers who intend to provide supervision, consultation, and mentorship. Washington approved supervisors. This offering is open to mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and clinical social workers. We feel that this offering is best suited for clinicians who have been in the field for at least two years.
This is also a really dynamic, robust training for clinicians that are already approved supervisors. It’s a condenced, affordable way to get 15 CEUs (including 6 professional law and ethics)!
Timing
Friday, October 25 - Saturday, October 26
9:00 — Doors open; refreshments provided
9:30-12:00 — Training block
12:00-12:00 — Lunch on your own
1:00-5:00 — Training block
Location
This is a hybrid offering.
IN PERSON — We will gather in The Studio at Shelterwood Collective in Pioneer Square. Visit this page for details about the neighborhood, accessibility, parking, and transportation.
VIRTUAL — We are providing facilitated, distance learning access via Zoom. Please be aware that full participation (with cameras on) for the entirety of the offering is required to receive your approved supervisor certificate and CEUs.
*If you’re unable to attend this time, but would like to train with us in the future, please fill out this form to get on our waiting list.
Exchange
$600 covers the cost of the training, 15 CEUs, a package of documentation to support this new facet of your practice, and a community of supervisor colleagues for ongoing connection and consultation.
When you register you will have the option to spread the fee into one, two, or three installments.
Connect With Us
You’re welcome to reach out to us with questions:
Abby — abby@yellowchairconversations.com
Nicole — nicole@shelterwoodcollective.com