For Clinicians, Not Clients
Supervision That Builds Your Clinical Voice, Not a Copy of Mine
You've sat with clients and felt something happening in the room you couldn't quite name. You've wondered whether the pull you feel toward one intervention, or away from a particular client, means something. Maybe you're working toward your LCSW and want more from supervision than someone telling you which intervention to use.
Or you're already licensed, doing trauma work, and finding that some cases leave you feeling stuck in ways your training didn't prepare you for.
Supervision and consultation here aren't about handing you a formula. They're about slowing down enough to understand what's actually happening, in your client, in the room, and in you.
Two Ways to Work Together
Clinical Supervision and Consultation for Social Workers
LCSW Supervision — $120/hour
Individual clinical supervision for social workers pursuing LCSW licensure in Virginia. Because Virginia requires Board-approved supervision throughout the licensure process, this is an ongoing relationship, established through a formal supervisory contract and continuing regularly until you meet the requirements for licensure.
Clinical Consultation — $150/hour
Individual consultation for licensed clinicians who want additional support with trauma-focused work, EMDR, somatic approaches, or situations where they feel stuck. More flexible than supervision: it can be ongoing, or scheduled around a specific clinical need, whether that's one session or many.
Explorative, Collaborative, Curious
How I Approach This Work
I don't believe supervision should be about handing someone a formula and telling them what to do with a client. My approach is explorative, collaborative, and grounded in curiosity, which means I tend to ask a lot of questions.
What are you noticing? What's happening for you in the room? What are you drawn toward, and what are you wanting to avoid? What might the client be communicating through their behavior? Those questions help us slow things down enough to actually understand what's happening, rather than rushing toward an intervention.
I also believe your internal experience as a clinician is valuable clinical information. Learning to notice your own thoughts, emotions, body responses, assumptions, and impulses helps you understand the therapeutic relationship and make more intentional clinical decisions. The goal isn't to simply trust your gut. It's to become curious about what your gut is telling you, and learn how to use that information thoughtfully.
My conceptualization starts with the individual and then widens the lens: from what's happening within the client, out to attachment, family and other important relationships, and the larger systems that may have shaped or maintained the patterns we're seeing. That same lens applies to you. You're part of the clinical system too.
Ultimately, I want to help you develop your own clinical judgment and voice, not learn how to practice exactly the way I do.
Supervision and Consultation Topics
A significant part of this work is helping you develop the ability to notice what's happening while you're practicing: what you're feeling toward the client, what you're wanting to do next, what you're assuming, what the client is communicating beyond their words.
From there, we step back to the larger picture, then bring that understanding back into the room. The point isn't the most sophisticated formulation. It's a formulation that helps you understand your client and guides what you do next.
My primary areas of supervision and consultation include:
- Trauma, complex trauma, and C-PTSD
- EMDR
- Somatic and nervous-system-informed approaches
- Attachment and relational trauma
- Anxiety and chronic hypervigilance
- Emotional regulation and avoidance
- Treatment planning and case conceptualization
- Pacing and readiness for trauma processing
- Difficult or complex clinical presentations
- Therapist self-awareness and countertransference
- Burnout and overfunctioning in clinicians
- Integrating different approaches rather than relying on one modality
An Honest Look at Fit
Is This a Right Fit?
LCSW supervision is for social workers working toward clinical licensure in Virginia who are ready to commit to an ongoing supervisory relationship.
Clinical consultation
is for licensed clinicians who want additional support with trauma-focused work, EMDR, somatic approaches, or cases where they feel stuck.
An honest note about my style: this may not be the best fit if you're looking for a highly directive supervisor who will simply tell you what intervention to use or give you an answer to every clinical question. I tend to ask questions rather than immediately give answers, which means you'll be expected to think, reflect, and engage in the process with me.
I don't expect you to have everything figured out. Supervision is where we're supposed to be able to think out loud, get curious, make mistakes, and learn from them.
From First Call to Working Together
What Happens When You Reach Out
A note on timing and cost: LCSW supervision is $120 per hour, and consultation is $150 per hour, with no hidden fees or packages to buy into. Supervision requires an ongoing commitment, and availability is limited. I recommend reaching out before you need to begin accumulating supervision hours, since I don't take on supervisees on a drop-in basis. Consultation is more flexible and can be scheduled based on availability.
Step 1
A free 15-minute Introductory Call
We talk about where you are in your career, what you're looking for, and what kind of support would be most helpful. This call isn't a supervision session or a case consultation, just a conversation to determine whether we're a good fit.
Step 2
For Supervision, We Go Deeper on the Specifics
Your current clinical experience, practice setting, goals, and the requirements for establishing Board-approved supervision in Virginia.
Step 3
If It's a Fit, We Begin
For supervision, that means completing the necessary paperwork and establishing a regular schedule. For consultation, we identify what you're looking for and schedule based on availability. Both begin as paid professional services from there.
A Note From Kristine
My Supervision Philosophy
I don't want to teach you how to be a therapist like me. I want to help you become more fully yourself as a clinician.
My role is to help you slow down, get curious, notice what's happening within you and around you, and use that awareness to make more intentional clinical decisions. Sometimes that means I'll teach you something directly. Other times, I'm going to ask you a question that makes you stop and think. I believe both are important.
Clinical growth isn't about never getting it wrong. It's about becoming increasingly able to notice, understand, repair, adjust, and try again.
Before You Reach Out
Frequently Asked Questions About Trauma Therapy
What are the supervision requirements for an LCSW in Virginia?
Your hours do not count until the Board has approved your registration, and that is the mistake I see most often. The sequence is: we sign a supervisory contract, you file your Registration of Supervision with the Board naming me as your supervisor, and once you have written approval your hours begin counting. The contract comes first because the Board needs it as proof of our agreement. The registration costs $50 and takes roughly 30 days to review. From there the Board requires 3,000 hours of supervised post-master's experience over no less than two and no more than four consecutive years, including at least 100 hours of supervision at a rate of one to four hours per 40 hours of work, with no more than 50 of those hours in a group. If you are already registered with another supervisor, you can switch to me without filing an Add/Change application, because I am listed on the Board's Approved Supervisor Registry. Confirm the current requirements with the Board directly, since the regulations are amended periodically.
How much does supervision cost?
LCSW supervision is $120 per hour and clinical consultation is $150 per hour. No packages, no hidden fees. You are paying for depth in a specific area, which is trauma, EMDR, somatic work, and the parts of a case that stop making sense. I take on a limited number of supervisees and I do not supervise on a drop-in basis, so reach out before you need to start accruing hours rather than when you are ready to begin.
Do you offer supervision by video or in person?
Supervision and consultation both happen by video, which is how I work with clinicians anywhere in Virginia. Video counts as face-to-face supervision under Virginia's regulations. You sign a supervisory contract with me first, then apply to the Board, and once your registration is approved your hours begin counting. Neither of us wants to discover two years in that something did not count.
Supervision or consultation, which one do I need?
If you are working toward your LCSW in Virginia, you need supervision. It is Board-registered, contracted, and ongoing until you meet the requirements. If you are already licensed, you want consultation. Nothing is registered with anyone, there is no contract, and you decide the frequency.
Can I bring you just one case?
Yes. Consultation can be scheduled around a specific clinical need rather than as an ongoing commitment. Some clinicians book once because a particular case is not moving and they want another set of eyes on the conceptualization. Others come back regularly. Both are fine.
Start With a Conversation
Reach Out to Discuss Fit
Whether you're beginning your path toward licensure or looking for consultation on a specific case, the first step is the same: a free 15-minute introductory call, no charge and no obligation.
