Licensed Therapist Supervisor in Philadelphia

Clinical Supervision

Clinicial Supervisions to gain licensure hours and become an LPC in Pennsylvania.

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Meet Your Supervisor

Nicola Pierre-Smith is a Black Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who meets the requirements to provide all the supervision hours for an LPC licensure and half of the supervision hours for a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW). In addition to having over 12 years of clinical experience in the field, Pierre-Smith completed Temple University’s post-graduate comprehensive Clinical Supervision and the Transgender Education Courses because of the value she places on the combination of experiential and didactic learning.

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Nicola Pierre-Smith, LPC ; Black mental health practice owner and Trauma therapist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

About Clinical Supervision With Nicola

Area of Clinical Expertise

  • BIPOC Therapy & Therapy for Immigrant populations
  • Trauma Therapy (sexual trauma, complex trauma, and more)
  • EMDR Therapy
  • Problematic Sexual Behaviors & Specialized Sex Offender Treatment (SSOTX)

Clinical Experience

  • Director, Outpatient Children & Youth
  • Clinical Coordinator, Adult Forensic Community Mental Health
  • Clinical Specialist, Forensic Residential Mental Health
  • Clinician, Residential Treatment Facility (Youth Forensic Unit)
  • Private Practice Founder & Current Owner

Benefits of Clinical Expertise

  • Addresses issues related to power and privilege that arises in community mental health agencies, and when providing therapy to clients who have been marginalized.
  • Opportunities for parallel processing through cross cultural supervision. This refers to differences in the supervisor and supervisee’s cultures or demographic background which includes differences in race, religion, ethnicity, and language.

Supervision & Consultation Fees

  •  $100 per supervision hour for unlicensed or provisionally licensed therapists working towards an LPC or LCSW.

 

  • $250 per supervision hour for licensed Therapists seeking clinical supervision or private practice consultation.
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Supervision Philosophy

Pierre-Smith’s clinical supervision is guided by the Relational Model (Knight, 2017) and Developmental Model (Taibbi, 2013) as is reflected in the way she provides clinical feedback, support, and evaluation of administrative tasks or case consultations. She takes into consideration a supervisee’s stage of development and cultural background to maintain a supervisory relationship that is informed by the code of ethics in Counseling, Social Work, and Psychology practice. The specific techniques that she uses to facilitate clinical supervision are based largely on each supervisee’s learning style, which will be identified at the start of clinical supervision.

You can expect the outline of supervision to follow a consultancy format, which includes a review of case conceptualization, review of literature, and pertinent regulations and ethics codes as needed. This approach offers Therapists and Clinicians who are receiving supervision from Pierre-Smith the opportunity to strengthen their therapeutic skills, gain mastery of interventions, enhance their therapeutic identity and overcome personal challenges that they experience when providing therapy.

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References

Knight, C (2017). The mutual aid model of group supervision, The Clinical Supervisor, 36:2, 259-281, DOI: 10.1080/07325223.2017.1306473
Taibbi, R (2013). Clinical supervision: a four-stage process of growth and discovery. Families International, Inc. Wisconsin