Clinical Supervision

Date of Recording: November 2019

The webinar will provide the practitioner with useful tools in providing clinical supervision that is meaningful, ethical, culturally appropriate, and a collaborative process with the supervisee. A person-centered strengths-based perspective is applied. Example forms and case consultation will be provided.

Learning Objectives: 

• Recognize ethical, legal, and regulatory issues of supervision, including documentation of the supervisory sessions and applications of conformance to CARF standards.
• Recognize challenges in supervision.
• Describe how cultural issues can affect the supervisory relationship.
• Identify accountability of both the supervisor and the supervisee in the supervisory relationship and how this can be a collaborative process.

Presenter Biography:

With over 26 years of experience as a licensed professional counselor, Bonni Stephensen, LPC, is a skilled mediator and uses intuition and experience to know what is needed in the moment. She currently works both as a clinician and a clinical supervisor and liaison for therapists who are placed on military installations worldwide. Prior to working with the military, Bonni spent 16 years with a large CARF-accredited nonprofit behavioral health organization where she was the vice president of outpatient services and was responsible for the oversight of six outpatient clinics. Bonni has been a CARF surveyor for the past 20 years and enjoys the rich exchanges and opportunities to be both a collaborator with colleagues and a consultant to organizations.