Program Overview

Clinical Supervision in Counselling & Psychotherapy

Program Overview

Earn the qualifications needed to be an effective, ethical, and legal clinical supervisor.

Is this program right for you?

These Clinical Supervision courses enhance your awareness of intrapersonal and interpersonal processes for effective supervision, ethics, and legal compliance.

Who should take this program?

• A graduate degree, or equivalent education
• Five years of counselling experience
• A counselling or related designation
• A desire to guide and support others in their work

What will you learn?

Clinical Supervision in Counselling and Psychotherapy Level 1

• Gain insights about effective clinical supervision
• How to apply relational models within the clinical supervisory process
• Develop awareness of intra-personal and interpersonal processes
• Enhance somatic awareness and self-reflection on explicit narratives and blind spots, countertransference, and vulnerabilities
• Learn to plan appropriate responses to clinical supervision challenges and conflicts
• Gain tools to become a reflective relational clinical supervisor

Clinical Supervision in Counselling and Psychotherapy Level 2

• Apply knowledge about legal and ethical limits to the clinical supervisory process
• Maintain a focus on supervision as a relational process
• Work with real-life scenarios and case studies
• Guide your team on:
  • How to relate to codes of ethics
  • Standards of practice
  • Professional scopes
  • Statutory limits

Course Details

• Our online Clinical Supervision training consists of two, three-day courses
• Both courses include an orientation and pre-reading package that will take two to four hours to complete
• To complete each course, you must pass a final assignment that is due one week after the course ends
• Assignments may include group work, role play, or written submissions

Tuition & Fees

• $665.04 per course plus Domestic Learner Services Fee of $9.60

FAQs

Will these courses qualify me to apply for clinical supervision designation?

• You will qualify to apply for the clinical supervision designation if you pass the level 1 and level 2 courses
• These courses are approved by BCACC as meeting the clinical supervision training requirements as part of an application for Registered Clinical Counsellors-Approved Clinical Supervisor (RCC-ACS) designation

How long will the courses take to complete?

• Before you start each course, you are required to complete an orientation and pre-reading package
• This will take you one to three hours to complete
• Each course is offered online for three consecutive days from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
• After the three-day course, you need to complete a final assignment which will take several hours

What is the instructor's experience?

• Course instructors are highly qualified professionals with an abundance of clinical experience and expertise

Courses in This Program

Required Courses

• Clinical Supervision in Counselling and Psychotherapy Level 1
• Clinical Supervision in Counselling and Psychotherapy Level 2