Clinical Supervision in Oakland, CA

Clinical Supervision for Pre-Licensed Therapists

Becoming a therapist is both exciting and overwhelming. You’re juggling coursework or client hours, managing your own growth, and trying to hold space for clients who bring big, complex stories into the room. Supervision should be a place where you don’t just “check the boxes” for licensure requirements—it should be a place of learning, reflection, and support for the whole of you as a developing clinician.

I offer clinical supervision for pre-licensed Marriage & Family Therapist Trainees and Associates who want to deepen their clinical skills while also exploring their own voice, values, and identity as therapists.

Therapist in office

My Approach to Supervision

Supervision with me is:

  • Relational + Supportive: I create a safe, collaborative environment where you can bring your triumphs, mistakes, fears, and questions without judgment.

  • Integrative + Depth-Oriented: My clinical foundation is psychodynamic and attachment-based, but I draw from EMDR, IFS/parts work, DBT, EFT for couples, and trauma-informed practice. This means we’ll talk theory and real-world application, making space for the development of your own unique therapist identity.

  • Anti-Oppressive + Social Justice Grounded: Therapy doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Together, we’ll pay attention to systems of power, privilege, and oppression, and how they show up in the therapy room—for you and for your clients.

  • Growth-Focused: I’ll challenge you to stretch as a clinician while also supporting you through the inevitable learning curves of pre-licensed work.

  • Resourcing: Need a worksheet, a video, an article? I’m passionate about providing you the resources you need to grow and succeed as a clinician.

What We’ll Work On

  • Case consultation + treatment planning

  • Deepening understanding of client dynamics through psychodynamic and attachment lenses

  • Building trauma-informed and culturally responsive skills

  • Using parts work/IFS and EMDR interventions

  • Navigating countertransference, enactments, and your own growing edge as a therapist

  • Developing your professional identity and confidence

  • Practical skills: documentation, ethics, boundaries, and balancing clinical needs with real-world settings

Who I Supervise

  • MFT Trainees working toward their degree hours

  • AMFTs/Associates collecting post-graduate hours toward licensure

  • Therapists-in-training who want a supervisor attuned to working with:

    • Trauma + complex trauma

    • Queer, trans, poly, kink, and other erotically marginalized communities

    • Highly sensitive and neurodivergent clients

    • Personality structures and high-conflict relational dynamics

    • The complexities of building a private practice

Why Work With Me

I remember how important supervision was in shaping who I am as a therapist. The supervisors who made the biggest impact were the ones who encouraged curiosity, modeled authenticity, held my anxieties with care, and provided resources for building skills and knowledge. I aim to bring that same presence to supervision: warm, direct, compassionate, and unafraid of digging into complexities.

You’ll get both nuts-and-bolts support (interventions, ethics, documentation) and deeper reflective work that helps you integrate theory, parts of yourself, and your unique clinical voice.