What is calling you?
I am so glad you found this page. How fortunate are we to cross paths on this extraordinary journey. Let me know how I can help you succeed in your critical work as a mental health professional. We have come this far. We have gone through so much to be here. And now, you are interested in taking the next step to making the journey a little more concrete towards your steps of being a fully licensed, independently credentialed clinician. Whether you are looking to supplement the supervision you are already seeking, or looking for a provider who can take you all the way to where you need to be from where you are now, I might be that person.
Approaching Supervision…
First, we setup a meeting to talk about your life as a counselor.
Second, we go over the process of becoming a fully licensed professional.
Third, we go over the methods that I often utilize in counselor supervision as a supervisor.
Last, we talk about what our journey might look like if we were to work together.
Dare to BE powerful!
“When I dare to be powerful and use my strength [or voice] in the service of my vision, it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” - Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider)
Hear what’s calling me…
What brought me to becoming a counselor supervisor and my motivation for continuing to study and practice.
I have been an approved Supervisor in Washington State since 2020. The recovery in the COVID pandemic shifted my perspective of the field of counseling a great deal. As a fully licensed, independent mental health counselor and registered dance/movement therapist, my role has been to provide a safe-enough container in which a therapeutic process can emerge, be named, and brought into focus in one’s daily life. About 75% of my clientele from the start of my private practice four years ago from community mental health was focused on clinicians, a majority of them community mental health workers, doctors, nurses, and other care practitioners. I experienced vicariously through them the weight of our work as care providers. Not one of my clients omitted the COVID pandemic from the increased stress, at times trauma, and full-bodied effect of the pandemic on their professional and private lives, including their adult attachment relationships. It seemed like the world was on fire, shifting our perspective on what it means to be present for those who are in need of care and support. And, as someone who provides care and support to clients, my role is that of walking, dancing, laughing, crying, being mortified with clients in their process of healing and transformation.
This experience brought me intimately in touch with not only the characteristics needed to be a counselor but what was needed in the field of counseling for us to survive and even thrive from the very depths of humanity and the multitudes of organisms and systems that support human life and all life on earth and beyond. To say the least, the pandemic has been an existential phenomena, one that I have taken as a call to action.
Finding my way into training as a clinical mental health counseling supervisor was a calling. I have been supervising since I started training as a clinician in Boulder, Colorado now almost ten years ago. It is one thing to learn a trade, and it is another that a trade, and a field of study and practice becomes a way of life. My unique background as a multicultural person with many streams of influence and paths of inquiry has proven again and again that my calling is to help others in the dimensions of multicultural practice and belonging. Because we are not in this pandemic nor in life following singular and individualistic paths. My approach to clinical practice and to life is multi-modal, intersectional, and transformative. There is no change without transformation. And I believe that the road to mental health recovery is one that brings the individual’s focus back into community, into the wholeness by which life exists and flourishes. This is the journey I embark with those I counsel, those I consult, those I supervise. And there is no way for me to separate the roles and traditions that make me the best counselor, consultant and supervisor that I can be.
My resume will speak to my experience in supervision and my CV will speak to the global field of recovery models and traditions that support my practice and wellbeing as a practitioner.
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