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Welcome! My guest today is Renee Beck, a Marriage and Family Therapist in Oakland, CA. Renee works with alternative healers and artists and specializes in dream work and transpersonal therapy. Our topic is incorporating supervision into your journey in private practice. Renee has been supervising and training interns for 30 years, and 50% of her current practice is related to supervision; you can see that she is definitely the “voice of experience” on this topic! Let’s dive right in with Renee!
- Renee’s role as a supervisor has been built up in multiple layers over time, but she gives some practical ways to find interns and trainees who are seeking supervision:
- Seek out graduate students at nearby universities.
- Use your website to advertise to those seeking off-site supervision.
- Obtain references through working with local non-profit clinics.
- By hiring private practice interns into your practice, you increase mentoring opportunities.
- Place ads on social media outlets, Psychology Today, and through your email list.
- Word of mouth is the best advertising! Renee gets about half of her supervisees through contact with previous supervisees.
- Consider volunteering in a mentoring program for pre-licensees and early licensees.
- You may wonder if supervising requires additional training or credentialing. Requirements vary from state to state, but in CA, MFT supervisors must complete a 6-hour class every two years; LCSW supervisors must complete a 15-hour class every two years. Of course, there are lots of online resources for obtaining CEU’s in supervision training.
- How does a clinician set fees for supervision? Renee charges about 55% of her full therapy fee for supervision, but some charge more and some less. Keep in mind that these supervisees are paying for graduate school and are not getting paid at most internships.
- As a supervisor, you should meet once weekly with your supervisee, but of course this depends on the client load of the supervisee. Renee explains the basics of California laws for interns and trainees.
- Renee takes a teaching approach in going over expectations regarding hourly requirements, safety issues, reporting processes, confidentiality, CPS, and suicidality. She explains the process she uses for resources, referrals, and her guidance with supervisees when facing these difficult issues.
- Renee concludes by discussing “niching down,” and how it factors into her practice. “Focusing on the work you love is what feeds your soul.” She also explains how part of her responsibility as a supervisor is to help interns navigate the policies, personalities, and politics at their site.
Renee and I could have talked for much longer about this multi-faceted topic. We’ve covered the basics here, so I hope you are inspired by these helpful tips from Renee. Thanks for joining us!
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