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Part II of a 3-Part Series | Self-Care in Clinical Supervision: How to Model, Instill, and Advocate for Sustainable Practice
April 2 @ 8:30 am – 11:45 am
Clinical supervision plays a critical role in protecting client welfare, supporting clinician development, and reducing burnout, vicarious trauma, and ethical risk. Yet self-care is often discussed superficially or positioned as an individual responsibility rather than a core supervisory competency.
This 3-hour continuing education training equips clinical supervisors, supervisors-in-training, and senior clinicians with practical, ethical, and trauma-informed strategies to integrate self-care directly into the supervision process. Participants will learn how to model sustainable professional behavior, teach self-care as a clinical skill, and advocate for systemic practices that protect clinician well-being.
Grounded in current research, ethical guidelines, and supervision best practices, this training moves beyond generic wellness advice and focuses on actionable supervision tools. Participants will explore burnout, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and moral distress through a supervisory lens, while learning how to embed self-care into case conceptualization, evaluation, feedback, and professional development planning.
This training emphasizes that self-care is not optional or personal, it is a matter of ethical practice, clinical judgment, and professional sustainability.
Learning Objectives (3 CE Hours)
At the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Describe the ethical, clinical, and supervisory rationale for integrating self-care as a core component of effective clinical supervision.
- Differentiate between burnout, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and system-driven stress as they present in supervisees.
- Identify supervisory behaviors that model healthy boundaries, emotional regulation, and sustainable professional practices.
- Apply supervision strategies that embed self-care into case conceptualization, clinical decision-making, and performance feedback.
- Develop a structured, supervision-based self-care framework that supports supervisee wellbeing without crossing into therapy.
- Recognize organizational and systemic factors that contribute to clinician burnout and ethical risk.
- Advocate effectively for supervisees by reframing self-care needs as client safety, ethical compliance, and workforce sustainability issues.
- Implement supervision questions and interventions that promote long-term professional resilience and reduce risk of impairment.
Featuring Speaker: Julie Fleagle, MS, LCPC, Clinical Supervisor Julie is a licensed clinical professional counselor and certified professional counselor supervisor in the state of Maryland. She has been working in the mental health field for more than 20 years and currently co-owns Willow Tree Counseling Center, a group private practice in Maryland. In 2015, Julie started specializing in working with children as young as 3 years old and is now a sought-after child and family therapist.
With gratitude, Brook Lane acknowledges this program is funded in part by the William B. and Sylvia A. Hunsberger Fund. Thank you.
