Clinical Supervision

NARM Master Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)

I am invested in my continual learning and growth and have completed my training in Somatic Experiencing (SE) and the Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM) and have served as a training assistant for both training communities. I am currently a training assistant for NARM and am on the Leadership Team.

I consider myself to be a relational, feminist, body-oriented, trauma informed therapist and supervisor. I have been influenced by Judith Herman, Laura Vandernoot Lipsky, Janet Helms, Tarah Brach, Larry Heller, Brad Kammer, Peter Levine, Bruce Perry, and Bessel Van der Kolk as well as the many phenomenal professors and supervisors I have had the honor to learn from during my career.

How would you describe your supervisory style?

Supervision with me is collaborative, developmental, and grounded in a strong ethical framework. I am passionate about fostering growth, curiosity, self-awareness, and helping clinicians refine their skills while building resilience. My approach emphasizes lifelong learning, with a focus on supporting post-graduate supervisees as they navigate advanced clinical practice alongside both personal and professional development.

I believe in cultivating a space where supervisees feel safe to ask questions, reflect on their work, and lean into the learning process. I integrate trauma-informed approaches, including NARM, while remaining attuned to the unique needs of diverse clients. Supervision with me balances thoughtful case conceptualization with strategies for self-care and burnout prevention.

I particularly enjoy working with clinicians interested in exploring identity and culture, especially as they relate to trauma and LGBTQ+ affirmative care.

How would you describe your supervisory style?

I approach supervision from a developmental and strength-based framework and aim to create a collaborative, enriching, and supportive supervision space. I embody a relational approach as a psychologist and believe it is essential that this extends into the supervisory space. I aim to foster a trusting supervisor-supervisee relationship where students feel supported in displaying authenticity, imperfection, and vulnerability in their striving for growth as a clinician. Supervision with me often includes a mix of exploration of a supervisee’s experience, delving into transference/countertransference, and teaching. I seek to understand each supervisee’s unique passions, strengths, and areas of interest and to support them in developing these skills throughout the training year.

I especially enjoy working with supervisees who are passionate, self-reflective, deeply curious, and interested in maximizing their growth and development while on practicum. I view practicum experience as an extremely important time in someone’s professional career and it is my honor to be able to join with talented and skilled students as they deepen their understanding of who they are professionally and what they would like for themselves in this field.

How would you describe your supervisory style?

Clinical supervision with me is relational and developmental in nature.  I believe in meeting supervisees where they are at, regardless of how much experience they have or where they are in their career.  I believe it is my role as a supervisor to support growth as a clinician through the use of theoretically-grounded conceptualization, which informs the treatment plan and interventions.  I incorporate trauma-informed, psychodynamic, and NARM theory into conceptualization as well as exploration of transference and countertransference that may present.  Additionally, I highly value ethics as well as clinician self-care and incorporate this into supervision to ensure client care.

I believe that supervision is a space for supervisees to engage in self-reflection and personal growth as a clinician. My goal is for supervisees to develop and understand their own therapeutic style and to grow both professionally and personally.  I want to support supervisees in understanding who they are as clinicians and finding their own approach and therapeutic voice with clients.

I enjoy working with clinicians who are reflective, open, vulnerable, and transparent about their clinical work. Supervision is a space for reflection and growth – I welcome questions and not knowing and believe it is important for clinicians to identify their own needs for our time together.

How would you describe your supervisory style?

My relational-cultural theoretical orientation and trauma-informed philosophy towards clinical practice similarly frames my perspective on supervision. I approach supervision with a focus on mutuality and safety to empower supervisees to curiously explore their countertransference and relational patterns that emerge in the therapy space. Contextualizing these patterns within a larger understanding of the impact of oppressive systems of power, and within supervisees’ experience of the world and their own identity, is some of my favorite supervisory work. I am always excited to notice and explore somatic experiences and parallel processes that emerge between client, supervisee, and myself as supervisor. The supervision process is very important to me, particularly cultivating a reciprocal relationship supporting mutual learning and collaboration. I strive to ground my relational, process-oriented approach within a developmental framework that supports me in promoting supervisees’ clinical, professional, and personal growth in ways that are aligned with their current skills and aspirations for growth.

My clinical work began in the context of community centers and so community-oriented mental health care is a core passion of mine, and I am similarly informed by liberation psychology, harm-reduction, pleasure-positivity, emergent strategy, and queer-affirming therapeutic practices. I enjoy working with clinicians who are passionate, engaging, curious, reflective, and open to challenging themselves to grow in values-aligned ways. Throughout all levels of my clinical training experience, I often reflected on power dynamics inherent within the supervisory relationship and now, as a supervisor myself, I work to lean into cultural humility, groundedness in my community, as well as continual consultation and supervision to hold myself accountable and support ongoing reflection on my own positionality and influence.