Clinical Supervision at Echo Community Practice

Echo Community Practice is more than a therapy collective—it is a living, breathing community of practitioners committed to healing through connection, political consciousness, and embodied presence. Our clinical supervision offerings extend this mission to the training and mentorship of associate therapists and LMSWs pursuing licensure and deepening their clinical voice.

We believe supervision is not just about meeting hour requirements—it is about growing into a relationally attuned, socially conscious, and ethically grounded therapist. At Echo, supervision is a space for reflection, unlearning, and co-creation. It is where therapists are invited to be human, to hold complexity, and to work at the intersection of clinical depth and systemic liberation.

Mission-Aligned Supervision Philosophy

Supervision at Echo Community Practice is shaped by our belief that therapy is both a healing relationship and a political act. We honor the voice of each supervisee and support them in reclaiming what may have been silenced in academic, agency, or oppressive clinical environments. We recognize that healing justice cannot be separated from social justice.

Grounded in our core values of voice, reflection, community, and resonance, our supervision model is:

  • Liberatory – We interrogate and dismantle the influence of white supremacy, carcerality, patriarchy, ableism, and capitalism in clinical practice. We support supervisees in decolonizing their lens and expanding their capacity to work with clients in justice-centered ways.

  • Relational – We model and explore the relational field between therapist and client, as well as supervisor and supervisee. We explore attachment, transference, countertransference, enactments, and rupture-repair processes with care and rigor.

  • Narrative & Meaning-Making – We help supervisees locate themselves in their work. This includes processing their own story, therapeutic stance, and identities—honoring their unique positionality while building narrative fluency and de-pathologizing language.

  • Queer & Feminist-Informed – We challenge normativity, essentialism, and binary thinking. Our supervision welcomes expansive exploration of gender, sexuality, power, intimacy, identity, and chosen family structures.

  • Somatic & Embodied – We support therapists in tracking their own body-based responses, regulation strategies, and embodiment practices to foster clinical presence and resilience.

  • Anti-Racist & Abolitionist – We understand that systems of harm shape the therapeutic space. Our supervision centers client liberation, mutual aid, community care, and ethical accountability. We explore how therapists can practice in ways that refuse carceral logics and align with transformative justice.

What Supervisees Can Expect

Individual Supervision

Supervisees in individual supervision receive dedicated time and attention to:

  • Explore their clinical work in depth, with a focus on therapeutic process, rupture and repair, case conceptualization, and emotional attunement.

  • Develop a working understanding of narrative therapy, relational therapy, trauma-informed care, and social justice-informed frameworks.

  • Examine countertransference and the therapist's own nervous system, identity, and social location within the therapeutic relationship.

  • Receive mentorship around ethical decision-making, documentation, licensing processes, and private practice development.

  • Reflect on their own healing and liberation as inseparable from their clinical evolution.

Individual supervision is not hierarchical or prescriptive—it is a space of shared reflection, radical honesty, and unconditional regard.

Group Supervision

Group supervision is a collective learning space where supervisees can:

  • Witness and learn from the clinical work of others across modalities and identities.

  • Build professional kinship, reduce shame, and increase confidence through collaborative dialogue.

  • Engage in experiential learning through case presentations, role plays, somatic grounding practices, and critical dialogue on clinical and sociopolitical issues.

  • Explore intersectionality in practice—how race, gender, class, culture, ability, and relational trauma emerge in the room.

  • Develop skills in giving and receiving feedback that is generative, reflective, and non-punitive.

We offer affinity-based supervision spaces (e.g., for queer, BIPOC, or trans clinicians) when possible, recognizing that liberation is shaped by identity, access, and collective safety.

Supervision as Embodied Mentorship

Supervision at Echo Community Practice is deeply relational. We do not train therapists to become neutral technicians—we support them in becoming integrated, responsive, and socially conscious guides. We reject gatekeeping and perfectionism, and instead nurture growth through resonance, rigor, and care.

Supervision is also a space of reimagining—of what therapy can be, who it’s for, and how it can be practiced in service of collective freedom.

Our Supervision Spaces Reflect Our Core Values:

  • Voice & Reflection: Each supervisee is supported in developing their unique clinical voice, grounded in truth-telling and self-trust.

  • Community & Belonging: Supervision becomes a place of solidarity, learning, and shared responsibility.

  • Trauma-Responsive Liberation: We connect clinical work to the broader sociopolitical terrain, addressing systems of harm as part of our case consultation.

  • Resonance Over Fixing: We honor the humanity of both therapist and client. We don’t rush to solve—we deepen understanding.

  • Flexible Boundaries & Deep Listening: We model boundaries rooted in compassion, clarity, and relationship—not control.

Supervision at Echo Community Practice is a call to remember that we are not just therapists—we are part of a lineage of healers, storytellers, abolitionists, and community builders. For those seeking a clinical home that honors voice, cultivates clinical depth, and centers justice in every interaction, we welcome you.