LPCA Presents the

CPCS Initial Certification:

Virtual Training Summit

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Members not only enjoy discounted trainings, but you'll also experience a gateway to connection, support, and growth throughout your professional journey.

Two Tracks to Chose From

What's Included

Attending this multi-day virtual training summit will cover your initial 30-hour CPCS requirements.

Foundations of Supervision

Legal & Ethical Issues in Supervision

Documentation & Methods of Supervision

Tele-Supervision

Foundations of Supervision:

Understanding the Basics

with Dr. Candice Norris-Brown

Will provide participants with a practical overview of the core principles and best practices that support effective clinical supervision and professional development.

We will examine the foundations of clinical supervision with an emphasis on moving supervisees from case reporting to clinical reasoning. Participants will explore the purposes and responsibilities of supervision, the supervisory working alliance, supervisee's developmental needs, and strategies for matching supervisory interventions to competence and readiness. The course will also address direct review of clinical work, culturally responsive supervision, constructive feedback, evaluation, gatekeeping, and the supervisor’s responsibility to support counselor development while protecting client welfare.

Foundations of Supervision:

Strength Training

with Dr. Veronica Motley

Application and Implications of the Integrated Developmental Model of Supervision This interactive three-hour workshop introduces the Integrated Developmental Model (IDM) of supervision as a practical framework for understanding and responding to supervisee development. Participants will explore the developmental dimensions of motivation, autonomy, and self/other awareness and consider how these characteristics may vary across domains of clinical practice. Using case material and applied discussion, participants will practice assessing supervisee developmental needs and selecting supervisory interventions that appropriately balance structure, support, challenge, and autonomy.

Applications & Principles of Supervision: Self-Care for Clinicians

with Dottie Chambers

Self-Care for Clinicians is an interactive training that helps behavioral health professionals recognize burnout and compassion fatigue while strengthening wellness and resilience. Participants explore the ProQOL assessment, healthy boundaries, reflective supervision, self-care planning, and practical routines they can apply personally and with supervisees. The session concludes with actionable strategies for sustaining professional effectiveness and well-being.

Applications & Principles of Supervision: The Bridge from Framework to Practice

with Dr. Cory Viehl

Knowing the ethical and legal framework of supervision is essential, but it's only part of the picture. This 3-hour live interactive workshop focuses on what supervision actually looks like in practice. Participants will explore how to translate supervision theory into everyday clinical work, navigate the real dynamics of guiding counselors at different developmental stages, and respond to the workplace scenarios that no textbook fully prepares you for. Topics include structuring supervision sessions, delivering effective feedback and evaluation, managing difficult supervisory conversations, and adapting your approach across settings and contexts.

Documenting Clinical Supervision: Ethical, Legal & Practical Methods for Supervising Therapy Interns

with Felicia Thomas

A six-hour, two-part training focused on creating supervision records that are ethical, contemporaneous, clinically meaningful, and defensible. Covers the following:

• Contracts
• Attendance
• Supervision session logs
• Topics discussed
• Clinical hours
• Case review
• Competency development
• Feedback
• Remediation
• Risk management
• Tele-supervision
• Closure

Integrates current Georgia Composite Board rules, LPCA/CCALP supervision expectations, and AAMFT Approved Supervisor resources and the 2026 AAMFT Code of Ethics. Uses case examples, documentation repair exercises, and an audit-ready supervisor toolkit.

Tele-supervision:

The Who, What, When, Where, and Why

with David Markwell

Tele-supervision is the provision of clinical supervision through technology, most commonly secure videoconferencing. Understanding the who, what, when, where, and why is essential. Supervisors must determine who is qualified to provide and receive tele-supervision, what technology and procedures are appropriate, when remote supervision is clinically suitable, where the supervisor and supervisee are physically located, and why tele-supervision benefits the supervisory process.

Telemental health, developed from early telemedicine efforts beginning in the 1960s, and expanded rapidly with internet technology, videoconferencing, and especially the COVID-19 pandemic. Tele-supervision followed this evolution by increasing access to qualified supervisors, particularly in rural and underserved areas. However, convenience does not eliminate professional responsibility. Ethical tele-supervision requires attention to competence, informed consent, confidentiality, secure technology, documentation, boundaries, emergency procedures, evaluation and gatekeeping, and jurisdictional requirements. Supervisors must understand applicable ethical codes, licensing board regulations, privacy laws, and interstate practice requirements.

Legal & Ethical Issues in Supervision:

Between the Code and the Room

with Dr. Cory Viehl

Ethical and Legal Issues in Clinical Supervision This 6-hour live interactive workshop examines the ethical and legal foundations of clinical supervision practice in Georgia. Participants will explore supervisor liability, ethical code architecture across ACA, ACES, and CPCS standards, informed consent and documentation requirements, dual relationships and power dynamics, gatekeeping and supervisee impairment, and emerging issues including telehealth supervision and technology. The workshop blends didactic content with case-based scenarios, reflective exercises, and facilitated discussion designed to help supervisors develop a more intentional, ethically grounded approach to their supervisory practice.

Advanced Supervision:

Case Scenario Role Play
with Suneetha Manyam

More details to come.

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