The 4th Hat: When a Supervisor is Also the Boss
Separate your roles, manage your biases, and communicate feedback that actually lands.
Course Overview
Clinical supervision involves three core roles: teacher, counselor, and consultant. But for supervisors who are also the boss, which is common in private practices and smaller clinics, a fourth hat enters the room. This course breaks down the responsibilities of each role, examines the biases that can emerge when authority and clinical oversight overlap, and gives you concrete tools for communicating different types of feedback clearly to your supervisees.
Course Description:
Clinical Supervision for mental health clinicians can be broken down into three roles: teacher, counselor, and consultant. Some supervisors may have a fourth role as boss. Often this occurs in private practices or smaller clinics. How do you separate these responsibilities? Can you keep bias from one role from influencing the other? Does your supervisee know the difference? This training will break down the responsibilities for each role. Potential biases will be addressed. And finally, you'll learn how to clearly and directly communicate the different types of feedback to supervisees.
Learning Objectives:
- Compare and contrast about four responsibilities for the two roles of clinical supervisor and boss.
- Recall at least three potential biases for supervisors who are also a boss.
- Utilize around five ways to clearly communicate feedback to supervisees.
This Course Is For You If…
- You're a clinical supervisor who is also your supervisee's employer and want to keep those roles from overlapping each other.
- You've noticed your supervisory feedback being influenced by performance or management concerns and want a clearer framework to separate them.
- You want to ensure your supervisees understand the difference between clinical feedback and boss feedback and can receive both effectively.
- You're building or refining your supervision model in a private practice or small clinic where you wear more than one hat.
What You'll Take Away
Dana M. Cea (she/they)
As a supervisor, Dana has experienced the supervision process from both the supervisee and supervisor perspectives. She has a passion for supporting supervisors as they improve their approach by making it more affirming, and they hope advanced supervisors find a refreshing view of supervision processes in this bundle.
"Together, we can make this field better for both clients and clinicians."
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