Supervision and Consultation that centers liberation and care — for you & your clients
Supervision is more than a box to check — it’s about supporting you to become the clinician you’ve envisioned. My approach integrates practical support, accountability, and reflection, all within an anti-oppression framework that acknowledges how systems shape us and our clients. It’s a collaborative space to honor your wisdom and lived experience, explore your edges, and grow within your values. Supervision with me sustains your work and deepens your practice.
Offerings Overview
Individual Supervision
One-on-one, individualized supervision for Washington state associates prioritizing your clinical growth and professional development. We’ll build reflective capacity; explore ethics and values; dig into transference & countertransference; examine how to work within oppressive systems in alignment with your values; and help grow your practice.
Individual Consultation
Sometimes we need a grounded other to think with — someone who can hold complexity without panic or urgency. I offer consultation as a steadying space for reflection and clarity, especially when the work feels heavy or uncertain. Consultation can be a single meeting or a short series of sessions focused on your specific goals.
Group Supervision
Community-based reflection and support with other associates and therapists who share your commitments to justice, embodiment, and liberation. These groups are spaces to connect, grow, and be witnessed — honoring your clinical practice and your humanity. We explore not just what happens in the therapy room, but how you are in relationship to the work and to yourself.
Workshops & Trainings
I offer interactive trainings for therapists, organizations, and multidisciplinary professionals that center anti-oppression, fat liberation, and embodied clinical practice. My teaching style is warm, attuned, and practical — helping participants think deeply, connect meaningfully, and leave with tools they can use right away.
My approach
My supervision and consultation are rooted in relational psychodynamic, developmental, and somatic approaches, with attention to systems of power, privilege, and oppression. I invite supervisees to bring their full selves — identities, bodies, and uncertainties included — into our work. I also draw on my experience growing two private practices to support the practical, business, and administrative parts of being a therapist.
I integrate frameworks and values that hold both the therapist and the work with care:
Anti-oppression, disability justice & fat liberation
Relational and reflective process
Embodiment and “good enough” — not perfection
My goal is to help you build a sustainable practice — one that supports both your clients and your own wellbeing.
Ready to connect?
Book a free, brief phone or video call to explore individual supervision, consultation, group supervision, or other offerings.
Resources
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Understanding Licensing Requirements
I help translate what the DOH, WAC, and RCWs say about licensure for mental health counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy associates. And I share spreadsheets for each profession you can use to track your direct client and supervision hours.
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How to Find a Supervisor
You want to find a supervisor who feels like a good fit. I share what the requirements are to become an approved supervisor, what supervisors have to know about their supervisee’s practice, questions to consider while you’re interviewing supervisors, and several databases where you can search for supervisors.
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Perinatal Mental Health Education & Training Resources
I’ve trained interns, new staff, therapists and multidisciplinary professionals to support clients with perinatal and family building complications. These are the resources I suggest all new perinatal therapists explore — book, website, video, and podcast suggestions.
What people are saying
“You, Laurie, are smart and experienced and add tremendous value to someone in my position.”
— past supervision group participant
“[Laurie] is intelligent, thoughtful, hard-working, articulate and passionate about the work she does. She is also exceptionally patient and generous with her time and her many talents.
— Wayside Youth & Family Support Network Award