LPCA Presents the

CPCS Initial Certification

Virtual Training Summit

January 7th-10th

Hosted by LPCA, this virtual training summit is a 30-hour comprehensive supervision training series that will help you meet the requirements to become a Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor (CPCS). The CPCS credential is a mark of distinction for LPCs dedicated to mentoring and developing future counselors. It prepares supervisors to guide supervisees through ethical, legal, and clinical responsibilities while meeting licensure requirements. CPCS holders play a vital role in shaping the future of the counseling profession.

Members save $90 on this course!

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

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:

This workshop equips clinical supervisors and mental health professionals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to provide effective, supportive supervision. Participants will explore the history and best practices of clinical supervision and clarify a supervisor's roles and responsibilities. By the end, participants will have a stronger foundation, practical tools, and a more intentional approach to supervision that promotes professional growth, cultural responsiveness, and quality client care. Objectives include:

• Understanding the profession of clinical supervision
• Establish theoretical foundations
• Prepare for transition from clinician to supervisor

Documentation, Methods & Models:

This interactive six-hour workshop covers the frameworks, systems, processes, and documentation necessary to structure and manage effective supervision. You will get introduced to 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.

Legal & Ethics in Supervision:

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.

Applications & Principles:

Learn how to effectively supervise, develop, evaluate, and support other counselors. This should be the most hands-on category, teaching participants how to translate supervision theory into real-world interactions. Topics include supervising professional development, feedback and evaluation, and exploring common supervisory challenges (including addressing resistance, supervisee anxiety, burnout and impaired performance). Better understand the balance of being a teacher, consultant, mentor, evaluator and gatekeeper responsibilities.

Applications & Principles Role Play:

This interactive advanced supervision course is designed to offer practical and action-oriented skills for new and renewing Supervisors alike. During this 3-hour session, we cover the concepts of supervision, hold a panel discussion with distinguished industry veterans. Through role-play scenarios and expert feedback, participants will:

• Practice applying core supervision competencies and ethical standards
• Experience varied supervisee scenarios and appropriate supervisory responses
• Receive mentorship and feedback from expert supervisors
• Refine their supervision approach through peer observation and discussion
• Build confidence in their supervisory roles
• Address common challenges and mistakes supervisors encounter

TeleSupervision:

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.

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