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Clinical Supervision for Colorado Therapists
Because your client’s treatment plan should not include your nervous system.
You care about your clients. You think about your work. You want to be a good therapist.
You still cannot personally drag everyone across the therapeutic finish line.
I’m Rhiana Turner, LPC, LAC, and I provide clinical supervision for counselors and addiction professionals who want to become thoughtful, confident clinicians without becoming emotionally responsible for every person on their caseload.
My approach to clinical supervision is relational, direct, practical, and occasionally irreverent. We’ll talk about case conceptualization, ethics, documentation, diagnosis, interventions, boundaries, countertransference, and all the complicated clinical situations that somehow did not make it into the graduate-school role plays.
But we’ll also pay attention to you.
The client you’re overthinking. The one you desperately want to rescue. The one who irritates you. The one you worry about after work. The one whose lack of progress has somehow become evidence, in your mind, that you’re bad at your job.
That’s clinical material too.
I’m not here to create a miniature version of me. We’ll build your ability to conceptualize cases, make clinical decisions, and know why you’re doing what you’re doing.
❋ Clinical JudgmentBring the client living rent-free in your head. We’ll figure out what belongs to them, what belongs to you, and why your nervous system volunteered for the treatment team.
❋ Countertransference WelcomeYou’ll know what you’re doing well—and what we need to work on. “Sounds good!” is lovely encouragement, but it’s not particularly useful clinical supervision.
❋ Direct FeedbackYou can care deeply without adopting your caseload. We’ll work on boundaries, burnout, rescuing, and staying invested in your clients without making their outcomes your personal performance review.
❋ Sustainable PracticeClinical Supervision for Counselors Who Want Actual Feedback
You don't need to perform competence in supervision. In fact, that rather defeats the purpose.
Bring the intervention that bombed.
Bring the boundary you're second-guessing.
Bring the client you adore.
Bring the client who irritates you.
Bring the ethical question you've already Googled six different ways.
Bring the session you've replayed so many times that you're now unsure what actually happened.
Clinical supervision for therapists should be one of the places where you can say, “I genuinely don't know what to do here,” without worrying that you've somehow exposed yourself as a fraud.
We'll slow it down.
We'll figure out what you're seeing, what you might be missing, what you're reacting to, and what makes sense clinically.
Then we'll work toward the point where you need me less.
That's the whole idea.
Colorado LPC & LAC Clinical Supervision
For Colorado therapists who need more than a signature and a spreadsheet of hours.
Rhiana Turner, LPC, LAC, provides clinical supervision in Colorado for counselors and addiction professionals seeking supervision appropriate to their professional development and licensure pathway.
Colorado-focused supervision can include support around clinical practice, case conceptualization, ethics, documentation, professional identity, boundaries, diagnosis, treatment planning, countertransference, and navigating the transition from graduate training toward increasingly independent practice.
Because completing your required supervision hours matters.
Actually becoming a better clinician while you're doing it matters more.
Prospective supervisees should confirm that their specific credential, experience, supervision arrangement, and hours meet current Colorado regulatory requirements before relying on supervision toward licensure. At this time, I am able to provide supervision to therapists with LPCC licensure, or therapists working towards LAC licensure.
My approach to LPC supervision and LAC supervision creates room to bring those moments into the conversation without feeling like you're supposed to already know the answer.
We'll work on case conceptualization, treatment planning, clinical interventions, diagnosis, ethics, documentation, risk, professional boundaries, countertransference, therapeutic dynamics, and your developing identity as a clinician.
The goal isn't perfection.
It's becoming increasingly capable of recognizing what you know, identifying what you don't know, and figuring out what to do next.
Case Consultation for Therapists
Sometimes you don't need a supervisor. You need another brain.
Independent licensure does not magically eliminate difficult cases. It mostly means you're now legally permitted to be confused without someone supervising you.
For independently licensed clinicians, case consultation provides a place to think through complex cases, therapeutic relationships, ethical questions, diagnostic uncertainty, treatment planning, countertransference, or the client who has somehow occupied 40% of your thoughts despite representing 5% of your caseload.
Consultation can also be useful when you're expanding into a new clinical area, feeling stuck in treatment, navigating a rupture, or simply wanting another experienced clinician to challenge your conceptualization. You don't have to be struggling to seek consultation.