Clinical Supervision

30 Hour Foundations Course

An introduction or refresher course for those providing clinical supervision to Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, and other mental health professionals at all professional levels. Includes 8hours of legal and ethics focus.

Please note: At this time the Oregon Board of Licensed Social Workers accepts 10 hours CEUs from the 30-hour course by arrangement only. See the Board website for further details about CEU requirements.

Live Classes via ZOOM
Nov. 7 & 8 - Dec. 12 & 13 9- 5pm $450

Group Supervision: Skills & Strategies

Live Class via ZOOM

January 31, 2025, 9am to 4pm, $70

6 hour Continuing Education for Trained Supervisors

Clinical supervision provides the foundation in which helping professionals integrate their training, knowledge, and abilities with their professional practice, identity, and field expectations and standards. The 30-hour course provides training and instruction designed to maximize effectiveness of the supervision experience for both supervisee and supervisor.

Maximally impactful supervision allows a supervisee to meet and exceed their field’s standards of practice while finding meaning, value, and reward in the work. This course guides supervisors into maximally effective practice through an examination of best practices as well as innovative, identity-honoring, and creative modalities intended to align supervision with the unique needs of each supervisee and their practice.

Course Topics

This course addresses topics including:

• The intersection of personal and professional identity

• The supervisory alliance

• Maximizing competence while fostering autonomy

• Supervision models & supervisee stages of development

• Ethical and legal issues & resolution

• Risk management

• Documentation and charting

• Facilitating social justice and culturally fit practices

• Innovative strategies in supervision

• Help for the helpers during a time of prolonged, multiple crises

Supervisors will also learn additional risk management tools and facilitative strategies to support supervisees during this time of extended and complex stress that has strained helpers, especially marginalized and underrepresented clinicians, in profound and career-impacting ways.

This course is 30 clock hours and includes 8 hours of ethics training. This course also includes a systems component. It meets the supervision course requirements to supervise pre-licensed Professional Counselor and Marriage & Family Counselor Associates. (Additional qualification requirements to supervise are outlined on your professional licensing board’s website, e.g. supervisors are required to have their clinical license in good standing.)

Course Goals and Learning Objectives

Participants completing this course will:

1. Understand and be able to describe the intersection of personal and professional identity.

2. Understand and be able to describe the factors and impact of the supervisory alliance.

3. Understand and be able to describe documentation and charting requirements.

4. Understand and be able to discuss ethical and legal issues relevant to supervision.

5. Understand and be able to describe identity honoring and culturally impactful supervision practices and techniques.

6. Understand and have developed initial working knowledge of at least one supervision model.

Instructor

Lisa Aasheim, Ph.D., LPC, LMHC, NCC, ACS is an Associate Professor and the Director of Counseling Services for Portland Community College. She is a renowned specialist in Clinical Supervision and is the author of Practical Clinical Supervision for Counselors: An Experiential Guide (Springer Publishing). She specializes in couples and family counseling, addictions counseling, and school counseling, and has written textbook chapters and articles on Clinical Supervision Models and Theories, Motivational Interviewing, Counselor Development, Ethics in the Work Settings, the Therapeutic Alliance, Family Counseling in the Schools, and Addictions in the School, Home, and Workplace. She maintains a profound appreciation for the complexities and challenges that come with dedicating one’s professional life to helping others and is grateful for the opportunity to support those who do this so well.