Supervision of Supervisors

Strategic Clinical Supervision for Counselor Development and

Retention

Registration deadline 9/11/2026

Virtual/Zoom

Trainer:

Samson Teklemariam, LPC, CPTM, is the Vice President of Clinical Services for Behavioral Health Group (BHG). Samson also serves as the Southeast Regional Vice President for NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals. He is an accomplished leader with a history of driving organizational results with learning and development solutions. He was formerly the Director of Training and Professional Development for NAADAC and National Director of Learning and Development for Phoenix House Foundation. Samson is a certified lead trainer for the Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Substance Abuse (CBISA) curriculum, Calm Every Storm: Crisis Prevention & Intervention curriculum, and experienced in the treatment of trauma-related disorders using trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TFCBT) and Seeking Safety. He is passionate about culturally responsive care for co-occurring conditions, clinical supervision and mentorship, improving access to care, and advocacy for communities in greatest need.

Description:

Behavioral health organizations continue facing workforce
instability, clinical complexity, documentation pressures, and increasing demands for quality outcomes. Clinical supervisors play a critical role in addressing these challenges through intentional leadership, structured support, and effective supervision practices. This advanced training introduces a strategic approach to supervision that integrates workforce development, reflective practice, fidelity monitoring, and continual quality improvement into everyday supervisory processes. Participants will engage in interactive exercises, leadership scenarios, supervision audits, and collaborative discussions focused on practical implementation strategies. Emphasis will be placed on strengthening counselor confidence, improving clinical
consistency, reducing disengagement, and creating supervision cultures that support both accountability and long-term professional sustainability.

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Agenda:

Morning Session | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

• Opening Engagement & Supervisor Reflection Activity
• Identifying today’s supervision challenges in modern treatment environments
• Defining transformational clinical supervision in behavioral health settings
• Leadership reflection exercise: “The supervisor I needed vs. the supervisor I became”
• Strengthening the Supervisory Relationship
• Building psychologically safe supervision environments
• Balancing accountability, support, and clinical expectations
• Interactive discussion: Common supervision barriers and difficult dynamics
• Break | 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
• Moving Beyond Compliance-Based Supervision
• Coaching versus corrective supervision approaches
• Structuring meaningful supervision conversations and follow-up
• Small-group activity: Reframing difficult supervisory conversations
• Interactive Supervision Practice Lab
• Role-play exercises using real-world supervision scenarios
• Practicing feedback delivery, reflective questioning, and coaching strategies
• Group debrief and peer consultation discussion

Lunch Break | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

• Afternoon Session | 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM
  Supporting Counselor Growth and Team Sustainability
  Recognizing burnout, disengagement, and supervision fatigue
• Strategies for strengthening retention, morale, and resilience
  Interactive poll and facilitated discussion: What supervisors unintentionally reinforce
  Using Data and Documentation as Development Tools
  Coaching through documentation review and clinical trends
  Using data to strengthen—not punish—clinical performance
  Practice activity: Identifying supervision opportunities through documentation examples
  Break | 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM
  Fidelity, Quality Improvement, and Clinical Consistency
  Applying CQI principles to supervision and counselor development
  Peer-review and fidelity monitoring strategies
  Case consultation exercise: Responding to supervision and performance dilemmas
  Supervision Action Planning and Implementation
  Developing practical supervision improvement goals
  Personal leadership reflection and implementation planning
  Final discussion, Q&A, and training wrap-upcoming soon

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to apply strategic supervision methods improving workforce
  development and counselor retention.
• Participants will be able to utilize quality improvement tools identifying supervision and
  documentation performance gaps.
• Participants will be able integrate reflective leadership approaches into challenging
  supervisory and coaching conversations.
• Participants will be able strengthen evidence-based practice implementation through
  structured fidelity monitoring processes.
• Participants will be able develop supervision systems supporting sustainable clinical
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