Supervision, Consultation, Groups & Trainings centering liberation and care for you & your clients
Whether I work with you as a supervisor, consultant, or trainer, my goal is to support you to be the clinician you 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 while you are accruing hours toward your LICSW, LMHC, or LMFT license in Washington.
Clinical consultation can be a space to help prevent burnout, explore ethical issues, address compassion fatigue, and reduce isolation.
I especially enjoy supporting therapists who work in body liberation & Health at Every Size® care, perinatal mental health and family building, trauma, and with queer and neurodivergent folks and for therapists who are building a sustainable private practice in alignment with your values.
Supervision
I prioritize your clinical growth and professional development in one-on-one, individual supervision for Washington state associates. In weekly or biweekly meetings, we’ll build clinical skills; 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 supervision is offered on a sliding scale between $100 and $250 per hour. More info about supervision fees here
In group supervision, I facilitate 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.
Who Seeks Supervision with Me
Washington State associates working toward licensure as an LICSW, LMHC, and LMFT
Clinicians wanting a justice-aligned supervisor with a relational and reflective lens
Therapists desiring support with the hard questions
Second-career associates who bring lived experience into their work
Fat, queer/trans, disabled, COVID conscious, neurodivergent associate therapists
Consultation
Sometimes we need a grounded other to reflect on complexity, process ethical issues, and get support for both ourselves and our clients. I offer consultation to therapists (regardless of licensure and location) as a steadying space for 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. Rate for consultation is $250/hour or you can purchase a 4-session package to be used within 3 months for $800.
With 20 years of clinical experience at many levels of care, training in EMDR, somatic experiencing, Circle of Security Parenting, Body Trust®, internal family systems, and advanced clinical supervision, I bring depth and practical embodied grounding to consultation.
Who Seeks Consultation With Me
Clinicians wanting justice-aligned reflection and support around identity, power, and embodiment in their work across the US / abroad
New supervisors or therapists wanting to become supervisors seeking consultation or supervision of supervision
Perinatal therapists looking for consultation on severe mental health complications, birth trauma, family building, loss
Fat therapists seeking fat-accepting, Health at Every Size®, body liberation centered support with the challenges of practicing in this moment of intense weight stigma
Queer/trans/nonbinary, disabled, COVID conscious, neurodivergent therapists
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.
Topics I teach about
Fat liberation and body respect in clinical practice
Differential presentations and how perinatal anxiety, OCD, mania, depression, and psychosis* can present
Practical clinical interventions drawing from attachment, relational, somatic, CBT/DBT, and interpersonal therapies
Treatment planning, risk assessment and crisis planning within anti-oppression & harm reduction practices
Integrating Health at Every Size® into therapy or other care provider practices
Parenting as a fat liberation practice
*If you are concerned about your client's safety or the safety of those around them, or they are in active psychosis, your client needs immediate, emergency psychiatric and medical assessment.
Trainings
Need more info?
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