FOR THERAPISTS, LCSWs & INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL COUNSELLORS
Clinical Supervision
Before you support everyone else, you need somewhere to be supported.
Clinical supervision gives you:
- A trusted thinking partner for complex work
- Time to reflect, question, and explore
- Perspective on challenging cases
- Greater confidence in your clinical judgement
- Support to sustain yourself in this work
It is having someone in your corner who understands not just the clinical work,
but the particular world you are doing it in.
Supervision is about creating the space where better thinking becomes possible.
The best supervision is not a place where someone tells you what to do. It is a relationship where you can slow down, reflect deeply, consider what is happening beneath the surface, and develop greater confidence in your clinical judgement.
Together, we look beyond the presenting issue —considering the client, the relationships, and the systems shaping their experience.
Because great clinicians do not grow by having fewer questions.
They grow by
having the right space to explore them.
Whatever Brings You to Supervision…
Working toward or maintaining LCSW licensure
Deepening and growing your clinical practice
Counselling in an international school—with everything that brings
You deserve supervision that grows with you.
What Working Together Looks Like
Clinical supervision is the one place where you don't have to have the answers.
- You can bring uncertainty, doubts, questions, mistakes, frustration, curiosity, and success.
- Bring me the case that won't leave your mind.
- The conversation you keep replaying.
- The moment where you weren't sure what happened.
- The situation where you wonder, "What am I missing?"
This is where you can slow the work down, think deeply, and make sense of complexity—not to prove yourself, perform expertise, or have everything figured out.
I bring genuine curiosity to your cases, your clinical decisions, your responses, your professional development, and your wellbeing.
We'll consider the client, the context, the systems around them, and the clinician in the room.
I will challenge you where it serves your growth and hold you where the work is simply hard.
Together, we'll strengthen your clinical thinking, expand your perspective, and build the resilience needed to sustain this work.
Sessions draw on:
Always grounded in evidence. Always led by what you need.
Three functions. All essential. All present.
Normative
This is where you are anchored. Your practice is held accountable to the ethical and legal frameworks that protect your clients, your profession, and you. Confidentiality, safeguarding, mandated reporting, professional standards — examined carefully, upheld with integrity.
Restorative
This is where you are held. The emotional weight of this work is real — and it deserves a dedicated space. Supervision sustains your wellbeing, restores your sense of purpose, and ensures that what you carry never quietly accumulates. It is what keeps great clinicians present, passionate, and at their best.
Formative
This is where you grow. Your clinical skills deepen, your theoretical understanding expands, and your professional identity strengthens. It is the ongoing, rewarding work of becoming more fully and confidently the clinician you already are.
Supervision that holds you completely—as a clinician, as a professional, and as the human being behind the work.
Clinical supervision is where someone holds space for you.
This work is different.
I know.
I've lived it.
International school counsellors spend every day holding space for everyone else.
You don't just support clients.
You Support …
- Students
- Families
- Teachers
- Leaders
- Safeguarding teams
- Whole-school systems
You Move Constantly Between …
Therapist Consultant Educator Advocate Crisis responder Systems thinker
You hold therapeutic thinking alongside educational realities, cultural complexity, ethical dilemmas,
and the unexpected, because in international schools, there is always something unexpected.
It is extraordinary work.
It can also be deeply isolating.
Clinical supervision gives you an opportunity to slow down, reflect, and process what you carry.
A time when you don't have to justify why a case has stayed with you, why a leadership conversation left you questioning, or why a safeguarding decision still sits heavily.
You won't need to explain your world.
I'll already understand.
I understand the work because I have done the work
What I bring…
Supervision is most valuable when your supervisor understands not only clinical practice, but the world in which that practice happens.
My experience spans nearly thirty years across mental health, education, safeguarding, school leadership, and clinical practice in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Asia, giving me insight into both the demands of the role and the complexity behind it.
I have been …
A Head of Counselling
Navigating complex caseloads, whole-school wellbeing, parent relationships, staff collaboration, and the constant balance between clinical needs and educational realities.
A Safeguarding and Crisis Response Leader
Supporting schools through moments where the stakes are high, decisions are complex, and there are rarely perfect answers.
A Clinical Supervisor and Mentor
Supporting counsellors, clinicians, and developing professionals as they strengthen their practice, confidence, and professional identity.
I remain an active clinician.
My supervision is grounded in the living reality of this work—not just what I learned years ago, but what clinicians are experiencing right now.
- I am still reflecting, learning, and refining.
- I still navigate risk, responsibility, and competing needs.
- I still encounter situations with no perfect answer.
- I still have cases that remind me how much this work matters.