Consultation & Supervision

Even the ones who hold the lantern need somewhere to set it down.

Supervision

I think of supervision as a shared unfolding — two clinicians thinking together, following the questions that matter, and trusting the instincts that experience has been quietly building in you all along. Nothing here is handed down; it grows between us, slowly, until what you carry out of the room is a deeper trust in your own way of working.

I am an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, providing individual and group supervision to master’s- and doctoral-level associates and trainees pursuing licensure. I also teach clinical psychology at Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology, and I bring that same commitment to development into supervision. Supervision here is relational rather than hierarchical, reflective rather than prescriptive, and attentive to the political and cultural dimensions of clinical work — because those dimensions are never outside the room.

Consultation

Consultation is offered to licensed clinicians whose questions have outgrown their training — complex cases, ethical grey areas, burnout and sustainability, the integration of narrative and relational approaches, and the longer questions of what it means to do this work over a career. Especially welcome: those working in community mental health and under-resourced systems, where the meaning is clear but the wear is real.

This space is for:

• The clinician who is also a person

• The one who holds the group together and has no group of their own

• The associate counting hours and wanting them to mean something

• The therapist whose questions have outgrown their frameworks

• The one who is tired, and tired of pretending otherwise

• The one who still believes this work matters — and wants help carrying it.

About AAMFT Supervision

AAMFT Approved Supervisors are dedicated professionals who have obtained the educational, experiential, and supervisory training required for the competent supervision of marriage and family therapists and trainees. Those who have earned the designation serve as mentors who support and nurture their supervisees' strengths and resources, and provide a learning environment that ensures thorough marriage and family therapy (MFT) training and education.

AAMFT-approved supervisors have a breadth and depth of MFT clinical and supervisory experience and stay involved in the professional MFT community. They are committed to refining their clinical and supervisory skills and to participating in ongoing professional development through their affiliation with AAMFT.

Approved Supervisors work from a systemic orientation, using a variety of MFT theoretical approaches in their practice. Their supervision is guided by the Responsibilities and Guidelines for AAMFT Approved Supervisors and the AAMFT Code of Ethics. The complete text of the AAMFT Code of Ethics can be obtained online at www.aamft.org.

You don’t have to be at a breaking point to deserve support. Reach out whenever you’re ready.

Feel free to contact me by email to learn more about my supervision approach. I'm happy to provide additional information and answer any questions.