Support for Clinicians
Professional Consultation & Supervision for Mental Health Professionals
Helping clinicians navigate complex cases, strengthen their clinical work, and build confidence in the professional decisions that come with being a therapist.
Consultation is available to licensed mental health professionals in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, with Supervision available on a limited basis for Florida Registered Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Interns when current supervision requirements can be met.
Consultation
Professional Consultation for Mental Health Clinicians
You do not have to be an intern to benefit from having another clinician to consult with. Even experienced therapists encounter cases that leave them wondering whether they are seeing the whole picture, how to conceptualize competing clinical concerns, where their role begins and ends, or how to respond when a case becomes more complicated than expected.
I provide individual consultation to mental health professionals who want a collaborative space to think through clinical cases, professional questions, and practice-related challenges. Consultation is grounded in a systemic, neurodiversity-affirming, and trauma-informed perspective, with particular attention to the relationships and larger systems surrounding the client and clinician.
The goal is not for me to tell you how to practice. It is to help you slow the case down, identify what may be getting missed, consider different ways of understanding the problem, and make thoughtful decisions about what comes next.
Complex Clinical Cases
Case conceptualization when symptoms, relationships, trauma, neurodivergence, family dynamics, or multiple diagnoses overlap.
ADHD, Autism, & Neurodivergence
Thinking through differential considerations, masking, late identification, overlapping presentations, assessment questions, and neurodiversity-affirming treatment.
Family Systems & Relationships
Understanding relational patterns, family-of-origin dynamics, parent-child relationships, couples and family systems, and the ways individual symptoms function within larger systems.
Ethics, Boundaries, & Professional Roles
Thinking through complicated questions involving boundaries, informed consent, documentation, multiple relationships, competing requests, and staying within the appropriate clinical role.
Private Practice
Consultation about building and maintaining a sustainable private practice, professional identity, referral relationships, policies, fees, documentation, and the practical realities of working independently.
Court-Involved Clinical Work
Clarifying the therapist’s role when clients are involved in custody litigation, divorce, subpoenas, court orders, attorney communication, or other legal processes.
When Therapy Intersects with the Legal System
A clinical case can change quickly when a client becomes involved in litigation. A therapist may suddenly receive a subpoena, a request for records, communication from an attorney, a court order, or pressure to offer opinions that extend beyond the therapeutic role.
Consultation can help clinicians think carefully about their clinical role, documentation, professional boundaries, communication with other professionals, and the distinction between therapeutic and forensic work.
This consultation does not provide legal advice and does not replace consultation with an attorney when legal guidance is needed. Instead, it helps clinicians understand the clinical and professional issues that can arise when therapy becomes court-involved and identify when additional legal or forensic consultation may be appropriate.
Mental health professionals seeking more specialized forensic consultation related to subpoenas, testimony, records, depositions, or participation in family law matters may also find Forensic Consultation through Vann Mediation & Resolution Services appropriate.
Supervision
Qualified Supervision for Florida Registered Interns
I am a Florida Qualified Supervisor for Registered Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Interns. My supervision approach is systemic, collaborative, strengths-based, and focused on developing both clinical competence and professional identity.
Supervision may include case conceptualization, clinical models and interventions, diagnosis and assessment, ethics and professional boundaries, neurodiversity-affirming practice, and the realities of developing a career or private practice as a mental health professional.
Because Florida’s requirements governing supervision and the practice setting of Registered Interns have changed, availability for new supervisees is limited and depends upon whether the intern’s employment and supervision arrangement meets current Board requirements.
My ultimate goal is to help you develop into the kind of therapist I would confidently consult with as a colleague and trust when referring clients.
Style of Supervision
Who I am as a Supervisor
Clinical supervision should be more than completing the hours required for licensure. It is an opportunity to develop your clinical judgment, better understand yourself as a therapist, strengthen your professional identity, and learn how to navigate the realities of practicing in the mental health field.
My supervision style is systemic, strengths-based, supportive, and collaborative. We look not only at your clients and clinical interventions, but also at the relationships and systems surrounding the work. This includes exploring the therapeutic relationship, parallel processes that may emerge within supervision, professional boundaries, ethics, diagnosis and assessment, collaboration with other providers, and the personal and professional experiences that shape how you practice.
For interns interested in private practice, supervision can also include the practical side of becoming a clinician and building a sustainable practice. I opened my own solo private practice while completing my registered internship in 2012 and have since worked in several practice models, including renting office space, owning a professional building, and operating a fully virtual practice.
Choosing a supervisor whose clinical background and areas of expertise overlap with your interests can make supervision considerably more useful. My clinical work is grounded in family systems theory and focuses primarily on adolescents and adults navigating relational trauma, family-of-origin concerns, neurodivergence, and complex relationship dynamics.
Over the course of my career, I have also developed substantial experience working collaboratively with psychiatrists and other medical and mental health professionals, evaluating ADHD and Autism, and navigating the intersection between mental health practice, ethics, and the legal system. My forensic family law work has given me additional experience with documentation, subpoenas, court involvement, professional boundaries, and the challenges clinicians encounter when therapy intersects with litigation.
Like my therapy style, my supervision is strengths-based, supportive, collaborative, and appropriately challenging. I use humor and self-disclosure when helpful, and I want supervision to be a place where you can ask difficult questions, acknowledge mistakes, think critically about your work, and develop your own identity as a therapist rather than trying to practice exactly as I do.
Good Fit Matters
- A Florida Registered Marriage & Family Therapy Intern, Mental Health Counseling Intern, or someone pursuing dual licensure
- Interested in developing both your clinical skills and professional identity
- Drawn to systemic, relational, trauma-informed, or neurodiversity-affirming work
- Interested in understanding how clinical practice, ethics, and the business of mental health intersect
- Planning to complete your registered internship within approximately 3–4 years
- Looking for supervision that is collaborative, engaged, supportive, and appropriately challenging
Supervision May Include
- Case conceptualization and clinical decision-making
- Systemic models and therapeutic interventions
- Therapeutic relationships and parallel process
- Professional and personal boundaries
- Diagnosis and neurodiversity-affirming assessment
- Ethics, Florida law, and professional responsibilities
- Working collaboratively with medical and mental health professionals
- Managing complex or urgent clinical situations
- Developing your professional identity and referral network
- Understanding the practical realities of private practice
Florida Requirements
Florida Registered Interns must complete supervised clinical experience and meet the requirements established by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling before becoming independently licensed.
Because licensing requirements and rules regarding supervision may change, interns are responsible for reviewing the current requirements applicable to their license and maintaining their registration with the Florida Board.
Next Steps
Looking for Professional Consultation or Supervision?
Whether you are an experienced clinician looking for another perspective on a complex case or a Florida Registered Intern seeking qualified supervision, I offer a collaborative space to think through the clinical and professional questions that come with this work.
Reach out to discuss what you are looking for and whether consultation or supervision may be a good fit.