LCSWA Supervision

Championing our Emerging Colleagues

Clinical Supervision for Licensed Clinical Social Worker Associates in North Carolina

As a newly Licensed Clinical Social Worker Associate, first we say, congratulations! We welcome you as a colleague and comrade and are thrilled to meet with you and be a resource to you in any number of ways. You may fit one or more of several scenarios which has lead you to Obsidian Care Collective:

• You have an "in-house" supervisor at your agency but are seeking additional clinical supervision hours towards your licensure and want tailored support around an area of clinical expertise one of us possesses.

• You may NOT have an "in-house" supervisor at your agency and are seeking a regular supervisor to support your professional growth, guide you through the board requirements, and assist you in meeting your hours towards full licensure.

• You may have started a private practice as a LCSWA and need a clinical supervisor for your professional development, learning, and your supervision hours and you hope to get specialized training and support with your patient populations. Please note: Obsidian Care Collective LCSWA Supervisors only consider associate level providers who meet our established minimum experience requirements for LCSWAs in private practice. Professional experience should be provided via your current resume/CV and will be discussed during your consultation.

• You may have transferred from another State or another agency and are seeking support to complete the last leg of your Associate Licensure status.

• You were referred to us by a colleague and curious about our experience and teaching style as you screen and vet different supervisors with the goal of finding a synergistic match.

Obsidian Care Collective Co-founders: Areas of Expertise & Supervisory Experience

Clinical Supervisors at Obsidian Care Collective have a combined over 20 years of experience providing professional development support and clinical supervision to LCSWAs, MSW field students, and fully-licensed psychotherapists across disciplines. We have worked with elementary school-aged children, teens, and adults across all developmental stages in our clinical work. We have provided care in residential, Intensive In-Home, Intensive Outpatient, Substance Use Disorders treatment, court-ordered programming, community based outpatient mental health, university settings, and private practice settings. We have worked with almost every demographic, co-occurring disorders, crisis stabilization, and depth psychotherapy. We are trained in the following modalities:

• Motivational Interviewing

• Harm Reduction, Abstinence Based, Medication Assisted Treatment, and 12-step

• Seeking Safety model for PTSD & Addiction Recovery

• Trauma-Focused CBT

• Somatic Experiencing®️

• Cultural-Relational Psychotherapy

• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy

• Parenting Matters & Safely Ever After Protocol

• Cognitive Processing Therapy

• Groups, Individual, Couples, Family, and Parenting

• Court Advocacy & Forensics

• Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning Experience

• WPATH Standards of Care & Informed Consent

• Anti-Oppression and Decolonizing Mental Health Strategies

• Abuser Treatment

LCSWA Supervision fees:

Individual or group supervision fees will be determined between your prospective Clinical Supervisor and you and be considered sliding scale. Be prepared to consider if your agency will reimburse you for outside supervision, what your income is against other financial responsibilities, student loan debt you may be carrying, your practice setting and the frequency of between supervision session contact required, how much you may be charging your patients if you are establishing a private practice, and whether you have cultural capital or hold an identity that has traditionally meant that doors are often opened for you as you build your career.

Next Steps: Phone or Virtual Consultation

If you would like to explore whether a clinical supervisor at Obsidian Care Collective would be a good match, please complete the Request an Appointment form. Please be prepared to provide any current practice information, licensure status, hours completed, copies of all forms submitted to the NC Social Work Certification & Licensure Board, and other circumstances relevant to our discussion. Obsidian Care Collective LCSWA Supervisors require explicit permission to be given by prospective supervisees to communicate with any previous LCSWA Supervisors and former Field Instructors during the mutual vetting process. In exchange, we are happy to provide you with references upon your request.

Please also review the NC Social Work Licensure and Certification Board's requirements for LCSWA completion and Supervision standards. Link here.