Supervision & Training
Focused on the critical role of supervision in the training of psychotherapists, this section offers resources and best practices for both supervisors and supervisees to enhance the learning experience and ensure the delivery of high-quality care.
169 articles found
Dancing with Clients: When Helping Becomes Something Else
Internship Like many therapists I know, I began my internship in grade school. I grew up in a dysfunctional family. Dad was an alcoholic; Mom was depressed. While they were together, they fought. After they divorced, their illnesses intensified. My childhood was anxious and confusing, like swimming in water with a strong undertow, always at […]
Steve Hauptman, L.C.S.W.
October 5, 2026
Identifying and Intervening with Patients Who Have Been Choked During Sex
Within the past decade, a growing number of adolescents and young adults have engaged in sexual choking or strangulation (SC/S; Sharman et al., 2025). Although it is normalized among many young people, the practice poses risks to their health and safety. Sexual asphyxiation, or “choking” (the latter being a popularized term), is actually “strangulation” because […]
Maria Turkson, Ph.D. + 1 more
September 29, 2026
Practice Committee Office Hours Update: Is Group Practice Income Actually Passive?
We invite you to join us for our next Office Hour discussions: For many psychotherapists and mental health professionals, group practice is presented as the natural next step after building a successful practice. And it’s the pinnacle of practice, right? You’ll get to retire, sit back and relax, maybe even reduce your caseload and let […]
Jake Jackson-Wolf, LCPC
September 28, 2026
The Family That Never Arrives: An Integrative Framework for Attachment, Ambiguous Loss, and the Ghost Family
A woman receives a warm text from her mother. Hope fills her heart. Maybe this time we can talk honestly. The woman changes all of her plans and contacts her mother ready to repair years of distance. The conversation remains pleasant until she mentions something painful. The words barely make it into the air before […]
Emily Williams, MA
September 9, 2026
The Moment Before the Intervention: What Informs a Therapist’s Next Move in Complex Trauma Treatment
The client enters the office and begins the ritual. The shoes come off, the blinds get tilted down, the lamps get adjusted, the phone goes face-down on the coffee table, the clock gets turned away. The therapist watches quietly. Over time, these small acts have become how this client crosses into the therapeutic space, whether […]
Shoshana Twersky, PsyD
September 7, 2026
The Ambiguous Nature of Clinical Supervision and its Impact on the Development of the Novice Supervisor
Pica (1998) described the ambiguous nature of clinical training and its impact on the development of student clinicians. That paper, which has become influential of graduate curricula, training, and research (Bailey et al., 2024; Bettney, 2017; Booy et al., 2025; Burgess et al., 2013; Everson, 2013; Pickard et al., 2023; Richardson et al., 2018; Witte […]
Michael Pica, PsyD
August 3, 2026
Danger, Not Damage: Attachment, Emotion, and the Somatic Language of Relational Threat
Bowlby’s insight was somatic before it was interpersonal: the attachment system is fundamentally a threat-regulation system. The infant’s nervous system is organized around a question it continues to ask throughout life: am I safe, and is help available (Bowlby, 1969/1982)? Viewed this way, attachment does not simply shape how clients relate to others. It also […]
Joel Jin, PhD
July 28, 2026
The Integration of Traditional and Collaborative Approaches to Psychological Assessment: Recommendations for Graduate Training
Psychological Assessment in Clinical Psychology Psychological assessment has long been one of the foundational responsibilities of clinical psychologists. Reviewing the history of psychological assessment, Weiner (2013) noted that it always has and always will have a place in the field of clinical psychology. As such, it stands as a pillar of clinical training. Looking ahead, […]
Michael Pica, PsyD
July 27, 2026
The Price of Tradition: Why Legacy Structures are Losing the Next Generation of Psychologists
Introduction The current professional landscape in clinical psychology is characterized by a growing concern regarding the perceived disengagement of Early Career Psychologists (ECPs). From state psychological associations to the leadership of the American Psychological Association (APA; broadly referred to as ‘the guild’), there is widespread alarm over declining membership rates, a lack of volunteerism in […]
Jacinta Dickens, PhD
July 26, 2026
The Illusion of Competence: How AI Tools Can Mask the Erosion of Clinical Judgment
Providing psychotherapy and conducting psychological assessments are among the most cognitively and emotionally demanding activities in professional practice. A psychologist must hold a client’s history, attend to what is said and what is not, monitor the relational moment, integrate theoretical frameworks, and make real-time clinical judgments, often under conditions of genuine uncertainty. This work is […]
John Gavazzi, PsyD, ABPP
July 16, 2026
Becoming the Therapist I Once Needed: Reflections on Early Career Development, Humility, and Hope in Couples Therapy
I became a therapist because I know what it feels like to search for clarity, confidence, and direction. That is not a slogan for me. It is part of the lived history I bring into the work, and it shapes the kind of early career therapist I am becoming. I do not come to couples […]
Sheri Sterup, LMFTA
July 15, 2026
When Distress Is Collective: Implications for Clinical Training and Supervision
Over the past several years, a recurring pattern has emerged in clinical consultation and supervision among therapists working with clients from diaspora communities affected by war, political repression, migration, and ongoing sociopolitical instability.Many of these clients are not responding primarily to past trauma in the conventional sense. They are responding to circumstances that are still […]
Bahareh Sahebi, PsyD, LMFT
June 22, 2026