Supervision, Study Groups & Continuing Education for Therapists
You can know the theory and still leave a session wondering what you missed.
A couple may pull you toward two very different versions of the same moment. A client may respond in a way you did not expect. An intervention that made sense on paper may not land the way you thought it would. You may notice something happening in the therapeutic relationship and know that it matters without being entirely sure what to do with it yet.
Those moments are part of clinical work.
Through supervision, study groups, and continuing education, I work with licensed and pre-licensed therapists at different stages of practice who want room to think more deeply, strengthen clinical judgment, and develop a clinical voice that feels thoughtful, ethical, and genuinely their own.
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Developing as a Therapist Takes More Than Knowing the Theory
Clinical training gives you frameworks, language, and a foundation. Then a real person sits across from you, and the work becomes more complicated. The stakes can feel higher too.
Clients do not always fit neatly into a model. A session takes an unexpected turn. An intervention that seemed appropriate does not land the way you expected. With couples, you may be holding two perspectives that both make sense while trying to understand what is happening between them.
The question is not always, “What technique should I use?”
More often: What am I noticing here? What am I reacting to? What am I not seeing yet?
Having a place to step outside the session and think about those questions can strengthen clinical judgment and help you understand your own responses without assuming that becoming more confident means always knowing the answer.
Professional growth is not only about adding techniques. It is also about learning how to think through complexity, tolerate uncertainty, use theory with flexibility, and develop a clinical voice that increasingly feels like your own.
Professional Support & Learning Opportunities
Clinical Supervision
Supervision is more than a place to bring a difficult case or ask what intervention should come next.
I see supervision as a relationship in itself: collaborative, reflective, ethically grounded, and shaped by the same kinds of context and relational dynamics that matter in therapy.
We may look closely at what is happening between you and a client, the attachment patterns or relational dynamics entering the work, a reaction you noticed in yourself, or the countertransference that may be giving us information about what is happening in the room.
With couples, there is another layer. How do you hold more than one perspective without losing the relationship between them? What happens when conflict becomes intense, an alliance begins to shift, or you find yourself pulled more strongly toward one partner’s experience?
Each offering is designed for a different stage of clinical development. Some are intended primarily for pre-licensed therapists, while others are open to both licensed and pre-licensed clinicians.
Our work can include case conceptualization, clinical judgment, ethics, attachment, culture, identity, power, family systems, and the ways your own experiences and relational style may influence how you understand the people you work with.
The goal is not to give you a script. It is to slow the work down enough to think more carefully about what is happening and strengthen confidence in your own clinical judgment.
One-to-One Supervision
Pre-Licensed Therapists: $100/hour
Licensed Therapists: $150/hour
Couples Therapy Study Group
Working with couples can leave you holding two different experiences of the same conversation while also trying to understand the pattern developing between them.
The content of the argument matters, but so do attachment dynamics, emotional responses, conflict cycles, intimacy, trust, and the ways each partner reaches for connection or protects themselves when connection feels uncertain.
The Couples Therapy Study Group creates a dedicated place to think about that complexity with other clinicians.
Through guided discussion, case consultation, and shared learning, we explore attachment dynamics, conflict cycles, intimacy and trust repair, infidelity, communication patterns, and work with couples who feel especially stuck or high-conflict.
The emphasis is on bridging theory and practice so that what we discuss can help you think more clearly about the couples sitting in front of you.
Group Details
For: Licensed and pre-licensed clinicians
Format: Virtual
Frequency: Once per month
Length: 75 minutes
Fee: $50 per group session
Counseling Skills Study Group
Starting clinical work can be exciting and also leave you wondering whether what you learned in training will feel as natural once you are sitting with an actual client.
Knowing what a counseling skill is and feeling confident using it in the room are not always the same thing.
The Counseling Skills Study Group gives developing clinicians a smaller, supportive place to practice those skills, ask questions without judgment, think through challenging cases, and begin developing a clinical voice that feels natural rather than rehearsed.
Areas of focus may include core counseling and communication skills, building trust with clients, case conceptualization, session structure, professional boundaries, ethical practice, the therapeutic relationship, and translating theory into interventions that make sense in the moment.
Learning is interactive and experiential, with discussion, guided exercises, and gentle case consultation rather than simply talking about what good therapy is supposed to look like.
Group Details
Primarily for: California MFT Associates
Students: May also participate
Format: Virtual
Frequency: Once per month
Length: 75 minutes
Maximum: 8 participants
Fee: $35 per group session
This group is educational and consultation-oriented. It does not replace required clinical supervision.
Continuing Education
Continuing education can be a chance to go deeper into a specific area of clinical work rather than simply collecting another set of techniques.
Current continuing education offerings are open to both licensed and pre-licensed therapists.
Current Offering
Clinical Strategies for Treating Money Conflicts in Couples: Integrating Attachment, CBT, and Relational Interventions
CE Hours: 3
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Time: 10AM PST
Format: Virtual on Zoom
Registration Fee: $77, including certificate
Continuing Education Credit: 3 NBCC credit hours
Registration Closes: November 10, 2026
How I Approach Professional Development
Whether I am supervising one clinician, facilitating a study group, or teaching graduate students, I am interested in more than finding the technically correct intervention.
The clinical relationship matters too.
What are you noticing? What feels difficult to name? Where do you feel uncertain? How might your own identities, experiences, assumptions, or relational style be influencing the way you understand the person in front of you?
Those questions do not mean something has gone wrong. They are often where some of the most useful clinical thinking begins.
Context matters too. Culture, family systems, identity, power, developmental stage, relationships, and the environments people live within all influence what happens in therapy. Looking at those layers can help us understand a client more fully rather than reducing the work to symptoms, techniques, or a treatment model.
Couples work makes that complexity especially visible. Two people can experience the same moment very differently. There may be intense emotion, competing truths, shifting alliances, and moments when it is difficult to know where your attention belongs.
Part of developing as a relational clinician is learning how to remain curious while holding that complexity.
Professional development is not a process of giving therapists a script to follow. The goal is to strengthen your ability to think clinically, tolerate uncertainty, use theory with flexibility, and bring your knowledge together with your experience, personality, and presence so that your work is ethically grounded, relationally aware, and genuinely your own.
My Work as a Supervisor, Clinician & Educator
The way I work with therapists is shaped by the different roles I hold within the profession.
I am an LMFT and AAMFT Approved Supervisor. For the past 10 years, I have supervised developing clinicians, and I also teach graduate MFT counseling students as adjunct faculty at California State University, Northridge.
Clinical work, teaching, and supervision continually inform one another.
Teaching keeps me in conversation with theory and new developments in the field. Clinical work keeps that theory connected to the complexity of real people and relationships. Supervision creates another place to examine what happens when theory and the reality of a session do not fit together as neatly as expected.
Some of the most valuable professional learning begins with an honest question.
The session that did not go the way you expected. The client you are struggling to understand. The reaction you noticed in yourself. The couple where you are still wondering what you missed. The clinical decision that stays with you after the session ends.
Experience matters. Training matters. But neither eliminates uncertainty.
Part of becoming a stronger clinician is learning how to stay thoughtful and curious when the answer is not immediately clear, and knowing when to seek support as the work continues to develop.
LMFT
AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Adjunct Faculty, California State University, Northridge
10 years supervising developing clinicians
Find the Professional Support
That Fits Where You Are
You may already know that you are looking for supervision, a focused place to strengthen your couples work, more confidence with foundational counseling skills, or continuing education in a particular area of practice.
Or you may simply know there is something in your clinical work you want to understand more deeply.
You do not need to sort through every option before reaching out.
Start with where you are in your work and what you would like to develop. We can talk about which form of professional support makes the most sense from there.
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