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The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision: A Modern Model for
Private Practice and Community Mental Health

Enroll in the Online Self-Study course and complete it at your own pace.
1.5 CE hours available for behavioral health clinicians upon completion.

Clinical supervision isn’t one-size-fits-all—especially when you're balancing ethical dilemmas, staff burnout, and complex caseloads. Whether you're leading a community mental health team or mentoring supervisees in private practice, you need a model that adapts, empowers, and actually works.

This course introduces a modern supervision framework that equips you with actionable strategies to develop supervisees while strengthening your own leadership and clinical identity.

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Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS, brings over a decade of supervisory experience grounded in both community mental health and private practice. As co-founder of The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision and owner of a group practice in Denver, Khara has supported new clinicians and seasoned supervisors alike. Her expertise ensures that this course is both practical and inspiring, rooted in real-world clinical challenges and solutions.

Khara’s instructional approach blends ethical reflection, case vignettes, and self-inquiry with a structured model of supervisory roles. Participants are encouraged to examine their personal and professional development while mastering a dynamic, strengths-based supervision framework.

This training explores the key functions of effective supervision—teacher, leader, researcher, consultant, and colleague—within the Empowerment Model. Topics include ethical dilemmas in supervision, managing dual relationships, establishing contracts and boundaries, evaluating supervisory fit, and comparing supervision models. Attendees will also engage in reflective exercises to integrate these roles into their current practice.

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Instructor

Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS,

Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS, is passionate about giving people aha moments that create goosebumps and catalyze powerful action. She began her career in community mental health and managed a team of 15 green clinicians who served at-risk youth and families. Khara has provided quality individual supervision since 2014 and currently enjoys providing supervision of supervision to support colleagues in developing their leadership style. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and owner of a group private practice in Denver, Colorado. Khara is the co-founder and co-author of The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision, which launched in 2019. She has developed a Supervision Empowerment Academy for mental health leaders and provides clinical supervision training opportunities and consultation within the mental health field.

You can read more about Khara by clicking here and here

Key Takeaways:

  • Apply a flexible model: Use the Empowerment Model to navigate various supervisory roles based on supervisee needs and clinical settings.
  • Strengthen your ethical lens: Learn how to identify and respond to common ethical dilemmas in supervision.
  • Enhance supervisory confidence: Expand your toolkit with adaptable strategies for supervision in both community and private practice settings.

Why This Course?

  • Real-world insight: Designed by a supervisor with deep experience in both agency and private practice work.
  • Modern, applicable model: The Empowerment Model offers flexibility and role clarity that many other models lack.
  • Focused on your growth: This course builds your capacity to lead, teach, consult, and collaborate more effectively.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe ethical dilemmas that impact supervision needs in community mental health and private practice settings.
  • Identify the roles of a supervisor supporting growth in their supervisee.
  • Participants will enhance supervision skills for use in their practice, organization, or agency.
  • Compare popular supervision models for adoption within their practice, organization, or agency.

This self-paced course offers fresh, actionable insights to elevate your supervision practice.

Add this impactful training to your professional development today and begin learning instantly.

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 1.5 hours of video instruction and a post-test.

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Availability: 

From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to attend:

Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.

This program was recorded on January 20, 2023.

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