Welcome WA State Associates!
Supervision is a big investment of both your time and your money. It's a big responsibility for supervisors, as well. For that reason, we've formalized an application and contract process with supervisees. This process increases the potential of being a good match with a supervisory experience. Please share anything below that may be helpful as we consider if we are the right fit for your supervision needs and how we might best support you.
You may keep these responses fairly brief, if you'd like. However, we request that they include enough information to offer a balanced view of your interests, work, and supervisory experiences. We'll follow up with questions, as needed.
This group offers secondary supervision only. Licensure candidates are eligible for secondary supervision with SLR only if they already have a primary supervisor in place.
At SLR, for our purposes, this is how we define primary vs secondary supervision:
Primary supervision: Supervision with a main supervisor ("primary supervisor") who has primary responsibility for the supervision of the associate licensee. Therapy clients are seen under the license and primary supervision of this clinical supervisor. Primary supervision may support an associate with caseload and treatment plan review, theory and practice, relevant WA State rules & laws, standards of practice, coordination of work with other professionals and parties, relevant professional literature and research, and other therapy related issues. The primary supervisor has final recommendation if there is not agreement between supervisors in a therapeutic approach.
Secondary supervision: Supervision for licensure candidates who already have a primary supervisor in place. Secondary supervision may provide secondary guidance all areas addressed by a primary supervisor. One of the main purposes for choosing secondary supervision with SOUND Life Recovery is to deepen understanding of general CBT, ACT, CBT for Psychosis (CBTp), and an integrated approach to the treatment of co-occurring disorders to further enhance the supervisory experience they receive with their primary supervisor. When acting as a secondary supervisor, SOUND Life Recovery welcomes communication & collaboration to include the primary supervisor at any point for the benefit of the supervisee and their clients.
We appreciate your interest in further developing your clinical skillset and look forward to being in touch after we've reviewed your application.
Waitlist option: If you're aware we have no current seats in our 1:1 supervision program and you prefer to bypass the application until you know there is an open seat, you may add your name to our waitlist. That waitlist can be found in our professional FAQ at soundliferecovery.com, or by clicking here.