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Digital Seminar

Advanced Clinical Supervision: Effective Tools for Ethical and Culturally Responsive Supervision


Faculty:
Sonja Sutherland, PhD, LPC
Duration:
6 Hours 19 Minutes
Copyright:
08 Jul, 2025
Product Code:
POS150210
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

You’re not just guiding your supervisees, you’re impacting every client they’ll work with or clinician they mentor.

It’s a lot of responsibility — and most of the time, it feels manageable...

… until you hit real challenges with supervisees who are stuck, resistant to feedback, facing burnout, or even traumatized.

Suddenly what used to work just isn’t cutting it anymore…

That’s why we created this advanced clinical supervision program with supervision expert Dr. Sonja Sutherland, LPC!
 
This isn’t just another introductory training; it’s a comprehensive program designed to help you master the complex, high-level skills required to navigate even the most challenging supervisory situations. You’ll develop the tools to assess your supervisees’ developmental stages with precision, tailor strategies for their unique needs, and create an atmosphere that promotes growth, engagement, and clinical excellence all while being culturally responsive.

Dr. Sutherland will also show you how to:
 

  • Manage resistant or burned-out supervisees by using tailored strategies that address their unique challenges and support their growth.
  • Make tough ethical decisions with confidence using advanced frameworks that ensure clarity in complex situations.
  • Confidently practice culturally responsive supervision, with tools to support supervisees from diverse backgrounds and life experiences.
  • Apply real-world case studies and practical tools that you can integrate into your practice immediately, strengthening your supervision skills right away.
  • And much more!

 
This training will give you the advanced supervision skills so many other trainings just don’t offer

So don’t wait …

Register today!

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 6.5 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Faculty

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Sonja Sutherland, PhD, LPC, trains clinicians and supervisors in the development of cross-cultural responsivity. Renowned in the field, she has provided individual, group, and family therapeutic services in many different settings for adolescents and adults for 20 years. Within the last 6 years, Dr. Sutherland has provided training, researched, and published in the areas of racial trauma, cultural competence development, the provision of culturally responsive clinical intervention and supervision, and social justice advocacy. Dr. Sutherland’s primary clinical practice centers on providing clinical supervision services to post-masters clinicians pursuing licensure.

Dr. Sutherland has served as a guest lecturer, trainer, and presenter for various organizations including Kaiser, ESPYR, Telehealth Certification Institute, the Georgia Psychological Association and many others. Dr. Sutherland is a core faculty member at Walden University as well as the founder and CEO of Legacy Changers Worldwide, an organization dedicated to providing family education and mental and emotional wellness resources. In addition, Dr. Sutherland provides continuing education workshops and supervision for various organizations, as well as being the Chief Diversity Consultant to the President for Richmont Graduate University. She is also a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Association for Multicultural Counseling & Development (AMCD), the Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors (ACES), and the Licensed Professional Counselor Association of Georgia (LPCA-GA).


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sonja Sutherland is the founder and CEO of Legacy Changers Training Institute for Mental Health Equity & Justice, LLC., Diversity Dialogues, and Legacy changers Worldwide, LLC. She has an employment relationship with Adams State University. Dr. Sutherland receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sonja Sutherland is a member of the American Counseling Association, the American Counseling Association of Georgia, the Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors, and the Association for Multicultural Development.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Objectives

  1. Demonstrate competencies needed to provide ethical guidance to supervisees.
  2. Identify the 8 critical issues of supervisee clinical development.
  3. Apply supervision interventions to address identified supervisee deficiencies. 
  4. Utilize supervisee evaluation and assessment tools to increase supervisee self-awareness.
  5. Utilize goal setting and evaluation tools to implement effective supervision.
  6. Integrate culturally responsive decision making in supervision.

Outline

The Essentials of Clinical Supervision
  • Latest supervision foundations and best practices
  • Supervisor ethical responsibilities
    • Professionalism
    • Preparation
    • Oversight
    • Assessment of performance
  • Key factors in solidifying the supervision working alliance
  • Reinforce expectations for supervisee’s ethical responsibilities & readiness for supervision
Supervision Techniques, Roles, Functions & Competencies
  • Supervisor qualities that maintain the working alliance
  • Ethical implementation of supervisor functions, roles, and competencies
  • Advanced level tools for supervisee anxiety and blind spots
  • Questions to enhance supervisee self-awareness during clinical and supervisory interactions
  • Common missteps when guiding supervisees working with difficult clients
Supervision Conceptual Model

Supervisee Development: Navigating Complex Growth Stages
  • Stagnation related to poor insight and high self focus
  • Confusion related to ambivalence and imposter syndrome
  • Integration of cognitive understanding
  • Case vignettes
Supervisee Critical Development Issues
  • 8 core supervisee development areas
    • Competence
    • Emotional awareness
    • Autonomy
    • Theoretical identity
    • Respect for individual differences
    • Purpose and direction
    • Personal motivation
    • Professional ethics
  • Case vignettes
Choosing & Applying Interventions
  • 3 practical and ready to use culturally responsive supervision tools
  • Strategies for advanced and beginning supervisors
  • Case vignettes
    • Diversity considerations
    • Culturally responsive supervision
    • Apply interventions relevant to supervisee development
Goal Setting, Evaluation, Assessment
  • Discuss ethical best practices for supervision evaluation and gatekeeping
  • Comprehensive tool for supervisee goal setting and the formative evaluation process
  • Supervision goal setting and evaluation tools utilizing case vignettes
  • Considerations and tools for ethical remediation of supervisee deficiencies
  • Limitations and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • Therapists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals
  • Physicians

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