Spring Supervision Groups 🌱🌷
Each season I offer supervision groups to create community, offer clinical consultation, and support fellow therapists in our efforts to provide care that is reflective, sustainable, and grounded in frameworks including racial justice, intersectionality, disability justice, neurodivergence, fat liberation and queer and trans affirmation. Spring 2025 groups are starting mid-April and registration is open now. Each group will have space for 6 participants, meets over zoom, and is payable in $50 weekly payments.
Anti-Oppression Supervision Group.
Thursdays, 11am-12pm PST, meeting for 8 weeks from April 17 to June 5: apply here.
new! Fat Liberation Supervision Group for fat* therapists only.
Fridays, 9am-10am PST, meeting for 6 weeks from April 25 to May 30: apply here.
A little bit about me:
Hi, I’m Laurie (she/they). I’m a white, queer, fat, neurodivergent clinical social worker, educator, and community builder. I started supervising social work interns in 2008 in the community mental health program where I worked as a home-based therapist for youth and families in Massachusetts. In the next three years, I supervised bachelors level, masters level, and independently licensed therapists in that program. I trained staff, served on the utilization review committee to review and audit charts and documentation, and served as one of the supervisors for the youth mobile crisis program.
When I moved to Seattle to work at the Swedish Center for Perinatal Bonding and Support’s perinatal mental health partial hospitalization program I was able to supervise masters-level interns. Then right before the pandemic in late 2019, I went back into private practice, partly motivated by wanting to do more of the mentorship, teaching, and supporting roles of supervising therapists.
In the last 5 years, I’ve loved providing individual and groups supervision and supervising makes up about a quarter to a third of my practice. I completed the Smith School for Social Work Advanced Clinical Supervision certificate program in 2023 and continue to seek out my own consultation and training around supervision. I’m an approved supervisor in Washington state for mental health counselor associates, social work associates, and marriage and family therapy associates.
Learn more about me, my clinical work, and other supervision offerings.
*I use fat as a neutral descriptor and value sharing space with other fat therapists so I wanted to offer a group specifically for therapists who identify as fat. The fat spectrum categories can offer one model of understanding and orienting yourself in the world of fat liberation and size inclusion and using that model, anyone who identifies as small fat or larger is welcome. If you have questions, please reach out!