CCPA Clinical Supervision Workshops

• Level: Introductory
• Format: Virtual via Zoom
• Length: 3 hours
• Eligibility criteria: No experience necessary
• Spaces: 30 spaces available
• Date: Friday, October 17th 2025
• Time: 1pm – 4pm ET
• Credits: 3 CECs with CCPA – NOT recorded

This three-hour workshop provides an overview of clinical supervision and essential aspects involved in providing supervision. Target participants are those who are interested in providing or receiving supervision but may lack experience as supervisors or supervisees. Clinical supervision is defined and compared to other related roles while engaging in reflective activities around one’s own experience of supervision. The importance of receiving supervision from practicum/internship to across the career span is explored and key elements of supervision including documentation, models of supervision, and select ethical issues specific to the supervisory relationship are presented.

• Level: Advanced
• Format: Virtual via Zoom
• Length: one day
• Spaces: 22 spaces available
• Date: Friday, October 3, 2025
• Time: 11am – 6pm ET
• Credits: 6 CECs with CCPA – NOT recorded

Eligibility criteria: CCPA Intermediate Supervision Workshop and/or experience supervising for more than one year

This one-day advanced-level workshop is designed to promote professionalism in the practice of clinical supervision. Participants will further consolidate their professional identity as a clinical supervisor through targeted concept refinement and skill development by integrating prior conceptual and skill-based learning with a heightened critical analytic focus. Areas of focus include developing a framework for clinical supervision sessions, documenting supervision, engaging in difficult conversations within the supervisory relationship, exploring a variety of approaches to assessment and evaluation; and reflecting on one’s personal and professional identity as a clinical supervisor.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify the differences between clinical supervision and other supporting roles
• Establish a framework for comprehensive clinical supervision sessions
• Overview of documentation in supervision
• Discuss how to have difficult conversations with supervisees
• Identify action plans to address challenges in supervision
• Discuss fair evaluation and steps in evaluation
• Examine different approaches to assessment, feedback, and evaluation
• Solidify professional identity as a clinical supervisor
• Expanding self-care repertoire

Format: whole group discussions and sharing, small group work on professional activities and roles, small group work on establishing a framework for supervision sessions; case study reviews by small groups, review of a video session, case drawing, checklists and forms in evaluation, art activity.

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• Level: Introductory
• Format: Virtual via Zoom
• Length: One-Day (6 hours)
• Date: Friday, November 14th, 2025 & March 20, 2026
• Time: 11am – 6pm ET
• CECS: 6

Instructors:

• Blythe Shepard, PhD, CCC, CCS
• Lori Rudniski, M.Ed (Psych) CCC, CCS

Eligibility criteria: Overview of Clinical supervision workshop and at least two hours of experience as a supervisor, supervisee, or as member of a peer supervision group OR supervisor experience as a practicing counsellor

This one-day introductory workshop is designed to offer a conceptual framework for best-practice clinical supervision. Target participants are those who are interested in contributing in a supervisory capacity to the professional preparation of pre-service students (who are engaged in practicum and/or internship as components of formal study) and/or the continued professional growth of in-service professionals (who may be seeking professional registration/licensure). Employing a combination of didactic and interactive components, the workshop provides broad brushstrokes of the concepts and considerations salient to the practice of clinical supervision. The workshop content is based on the premise that before we may profitably seek answers, we need to know which questions to ask. The workshop aims to pique participant interest in pursuing further training in clinical supervision as a specialty area of practice, perhaps via completion of CCPA’s graduate level course in clinical supervision.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the similarities and differences between counselling and clinical supervision
• Clarify the differences between clinical and administrative supervision and how to manage dual roles
• Identify the roles and responsibilities of clinical supervisors and supervisees
• Examine three broad types of clinical supervision orientation (models)
• Outline the developmental levels of the IDM Model
• Study the Discrimination Model
• Organize supervision through documentation and recordkeeping
• Delve into the agenda for the first session
• Explore ethical and legal issues related to clinical supervision
• Apply learning to case studies

Format: think, pair, share activity; individual take a moment to reflect activities; video reviews (2); case examination; case examples to apply learning from workshops.

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• Level: Intermediate
• Format: Virtual via Zoom
• Length: One day (6 hours)
• Date: Friday, February 13th, 2026
• CECs: 6
  

Instructors:

• Blythe Shepard, PhD, CCC, CCS
• Lori Rudniski, M.Ed (Psych) CCC, CCS

Eligibility criteria: supervisor experience as a practicing counsellor

The intermediate level workshop presumes prior didactic training in clinical supervision and emphasizes experiential learning. Its intent is to enhance performance competency via engaging participants in application of the concepts covered at the introductory level. This one-day workshop is based on the premise that informed supervision emphasizes thoughtful intentionality and is designed to accommodate both a framework structure and responsive flexibility. Workshop participants will engage in reflective discussion and practice as they review the cornerstones of clinical supervision practice, articulate guiding principles for the supervisory relationship; consider how to engage in reflective supervision; examine issues of power, culture, and diversity in clinical supervision; and learn how to create a culture of coping resilience in supervision.

Learning Outcomes:

• Review the cornerstones of clinical supervision practice (define clinical supervision, identify roles and responsibilities of supervisor and supervisee, share your personal model of supervision, identify types of documentation used, review ethical and legal practices)
• Identify principles involved in building and maintaining the supervisory relationship
• Define reflective supervision and its importance in effective practice
• Explore power, culture and diversity in clinical supervision
• Create a culture of self-care in clinical supervision
• Apply learning to case studies

Format: pause and reflect individual activities, dyad work, pause and reflect in small groups, develop reflective questions in small groups, whole group, taped interview on reflective supervision.

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