Professional mentoring through supervision and consultation
I believe supervision is a sacred space — a place where emerging therapists grow into their voices and identities as healers. My commitment is to walk alongside my supervisees with presence, wisdom, and compassion, always with the aim of cultivating therapists who bring more dignity, justice, and healing into the world.
The Foundations of My Supervision
My approach is grounded in three complementary frameworks:
Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)
Drawing from Dr. Daniel Siegel’s work, IPNB highlights the powerful connections between the brain, body, and relationships. In supervision, I pay attention to how integration and attunement show up — both in the supervisee’s work with clients and in our conversations together. Integration means linking parts into a greater whole, and attunement means cultivating deep presence so supervisees feel “felt.” These concepts guide how I model relational safety and growth.
Multicultural Relational Perspective (MRP)
I also draw on MRP, Dr. Kenneth Hardy’s work, which emphasizes how culture, identity, and social location shape every therapeutic relationship. Supervision becomes a space to name and examine dynamics of power, privilege, and oppression, while also attending to the lived experiences of both supervisee and client. This lens keeps us oriented toward justice, humility, and sensitivity.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
I use IFS as a lens for self-of-the-therapist exploration. This means paying attention to the “parts” of you that show up in your clinical work — for example: What part of you is dreading this session? What part is leading the session? Supervision becomes a space to notice when a protective part has taken over and a therapeutic opportunity is missed, and how to return to being led by Self — the centered, compassionate presence that is the foundation of healing. This framework supports therapists in cultivating greater awareness, steadiness, and intentionality in the therapy room.
Together, these approaches create a supervision process that is embodied, systemic, culturally attuned, and deeply reflective, with the goal of helping you grow both as a person and a clinician.
My Supervision Style
I supervise the same way I practice therapy: collaborative, experiential, and relational. Supervision with me is:
Validating before challenging. Growth can only happen in a safe context.
Experiential. We work with live process, relational dynamics, and “here-and-now” moments — not just case reports.
Educational and active. I see myself as a mentor and educator — naming what might otherwise be avoided, and helping supervisees connect their practice to theory.
Grounded in presence. I strive to embody love, humility, curiosity, and compassion, modeling what I ask supervisees to bring into their own therapy rooms.
Goals of Supervision
While each supervisee brings their own needs, I hold three consistent goals:
Deepen systemic and relational thinking. Seeing connections — between mind and body, self and other, culture and context — widens possibilities for healing. I help supervisees develop competence and confidence in working with relational constellations in the room. I especially help supervisees implementing experiential family therapy as well as other classic and modern family therapy models like Bowen, Structural and Narrative therapies.
Support the self of the therapist. Who we are shapes how we work. I encourage reflection, growth, and critical self-examination to build confidence and capacity for self-supervision.
Promote a trauma-responsive lens. I help therapists integrate knowledge of attachment, developmental trauma, complex trauma and socio-cultural trauma into their work, drawing from approaches such as Internal Family Systems, Narrative Exposure Therapy, NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Laura van Dernoot Lipsky’s Trauma Stewardship, among others.
Ethics and Responsibility
Supervision carries both ethical and legal responsibilities. I uphold the highest standards of care, guided by the AAMFT Code of Ethics, state laws, and relational ethics. I also emphasize documentation and accountability so that both supervisee and client are supported with integrity and professionalism.
Supervision of Supervision
In addition to providing clinical supervision, I also offer supervision of supervision for those pursuing the AAMFT Approved Supervisor designation.
These sessions are designed to support your growth as a supervisor—helping you develop your supervisory identity, deepen your theoretical integration, and refine your ability to attend to the parallel processes that shape both therapy and supervision.
Whether you’re in the early stages of your supervision training or preparing your final application, our work together can focus on practical issues (documentation, ethics, evaluative competence) as well as the relational and experiential dimensions of supervision.
If you’re working toward AAMFT’s supervision requirements and need supervision-of-supervision hours, please reach out using the Request Supervision form to discuss fit and availability.
Ready to begin supervision?
I have a limited number of supervision openings and would love to learn more about your goals and fit.
My Approach to Clinical Supervision
Clinical supervision is one of my deepest passions. It’s more than oversight — it’s a relational, embodied, and educational process designed to nurture growth, confidence, and professional identity. My goal is to create a safe and challenging space where therapists can develop into compassionate, culturally responsive, and effective clinicians.
Supervision is not therapy, but it often feels therapeutic. Early on, new therapists may come in with lots of practical questions — “What do I say when…?” Over time, supervision shifts into deeper territory: ethical dilemmas, cultural considerations, and self-of-the-therapist exploration. Together, we look at both the “nuts and bolts” of clinical work and the personal development required to sustain it.
Consultation
Clinical
Therapists don’t outgrow the need for reflection, growth, or support. My consultation work offers a collaborative, process-focused space to deepen your clinical thinking, explore complex cases, and stay grounded in your authentic voice as a therapist.
I provide consultation for clinicians seeking guidance with high-risk or clinically complex cases—including clients struggling with active substance use, chronic suicidality, self-harm, severe dissociation, medical fragility, or housing instability. I also offer support for therapists working with couples navigating intimate partner violence or relational trauma, helping clinicians balance safety, accountability, and compassion within their clinical approach.
My background includes years of direct work with clients and families navigating trauma, addiction, and systemic barriers. I bring both clinical depth and practical wisdom to each consultation, always with an emphasis on curiosity, humility, and embodied presence.
I also hold space for white therapists who are engaging in antiracist self-reflection and navigating issues of race, power, and culture in the therapy room. Together, we work toward confidence and integrity in the service of ethical, relational care.
Organization
Organizations need trauma expertise to create systems of care that are effective, sustainable, and compassionate. I partner with agencies, nonprofits, and institutions to help them integrate trauma-informed principles into policy, culture, and everyday practice.
This work can take many forms—ranging from a one-time consultation to help navigate a challenging situation, to short-term, focused support during program development or leadership transitions, to ongoing consultation that strengthens long-term sustainability and culture change.
My approach is collaborative and grounded in both clinical and systems-level understanding of trauma. Together, we explore how stress, secondary trauma, and systemic factors shape your organization’s functioning and relationships, then co-create strategies that promote safety, trust, and resilience at every level of the system.
Narrative Exposure Therapy
As part of the U.S.-based training team for Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), I provide specialized consultation for therapists and organizations implementing this evidence-based approach to treating trauma and PTSD. Whether you’re new to NET, refining your practice, or navigating a particularly complex case, I offer guidance that is practical, grounded, and clinically nuanced.
Consultation may focus on treatment fidelity, clinical decision-making, or adapting NET for unique settings and populations. I also provide support for clinicians working with FORNET (Forensic Offender Narrative Exposure Therapy), helping therapists apply FORNET with clients who have engaged in violent behavior with attention to safety, self-of-the-therapist issues, and treatment fidelity.
In addition, I offer consultation around high dissociation and complex trauma, including support for determining whether NET is an appropriate fit, pacing and titration strategies, and integrating grounding and stabilization work when needed.
My goal is to help therapists feel confident and attuned in their use of NET—bridging research and practice to promote healing, safety, and dignity for clients with complex trauma histories.