Highly Sensitive Clinicians: Managing Deep Emotions to Improve the Therapeutic Process By Shannon Heers As a clinician in the counseling field, it can be a challenging task to manage your own emotions while helping your clients navigate theirs. This is especially true for highly sensitive clinicians/therapists (HST), who tend to be deeply affected by theRead more
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6 Ways Supervisors Can Support Supervisees Who Identify as LGBTQIA+ By Shannon Heers If you are a clinical supervisor, it’s likely that you either have, had, or will have a supervisee who identifies as LGBTQIA+. While every supervisee with specific identities has unique considerations, you can learn to support those that identify as part ofRead more
What to Look for in a Clinical Supervisor? By Shannon Heers If you’re reading this article, you’re probably a therapist, counselor, social worker, psychologist, or some other type of clinician working in the mental health field. We are lucky that clinical supervision is such a big part of our continued growth and success as counselingRead more
Navigating a Rupture With Your Clinical Supervisor By Shannon Heers What do you do when, as a counselor or social worker, you’ve been working with your clinical supervisor for awhile and there’s a rupture in your relationship? Having a break in your supervisory relationship is actually fairly common, and as a supervisee you have differentRead more
How to Get the Most Out of Your Clinical Supervision Group By Shannon Heers You’re thinking about joining a clinical supervision group as a counselor, therapist or social worker. But you’re not quite sure what to expect. Or perhaps you just committed to joining a supervision group yet you’re wondering what you’ll get out ofRead more
Struggling with Case Consultation? Ask Yourself These Questions By Shannon Heers As a counselor, therapist or social worker, you’ve taken part in case consultations on various different levels. Starting with your graduate school program and then segueing into your professional work in the field, you have always had colleagues to consult with on your cases.Read more
3 Tips to Find Your Counseling Specialties By Shannon Heers As a counselor, therapist or social worker, trying to figure out how to narrow down what you’re interested in pursuing regarding your counseling specialties can be challenging! Especially if you are newer to the field, or just starting out in private practice after working asRead more
Supervision for Agencies: Why It Benefits You to Invest in Your Clinicians By Shannon Heers If you’re a clinician, manager, or leader in agency work that employs therapists, counselors or social workers, you might be wondering, how does external clinical supervision work? And why would it benefit the agency to invest in your clinicians by providingRead more
Who Needs Supervision of Supervision? By Shannon Heers I pose this question, who needs supervision of supervision, to get you as a clinical supervisor thinking about the answer. Is supervision of your clinical supervision something you need? Why or why not? It’s worth taking a moment now to think about your answer. If you areRead more
Should I Do Individual Clinical Supervision or Group Clinical Supervision? By Shannon Heers As a provisionally-licensed counselor or social worker, you’re pursuing getting your full license so that you can practice therapy independently. You have done some research and found out that you can count both individual and group supervision towards your supervision hours, butRead more
