CLINICAL SUPERVISION
The Relationally Responsive Therapist: Advanced Consultation
Advanced Consultation for Complex Relational Trauma
A four-session clinical consultation group for therapists who want to deepen their confidence, discernment, and relational skill in complex trauma work
New dates for Fall 2026:
Sept 17th, Oct 15th, Nov 19th, Dec 10th
Even with strong training and experience, there are clinical moments in complex trauma work that can feel difficult to untangle.
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A client may be highly activated but resistant to stabilization. The work may feel slow, circular, or difficult to focus. A rupture may have occurred, or you may notice yourself becoming overly careful, responsible, frustrated, protective, or unsure of your own clinical judgment.
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These are often the moments where more information is not necessarily what is needed. What helps is having space to slow the work down, reflect on what may be happening within the client, within yourself, and between you, and think together about how to respond.
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Advanced Consultation for Complex Relational Trauma offers a supportive place to bring these layered and relationally nuanced moments. Through guided reflection, experiential supervision, case discussion, and extended consultation, the group is designed to help you deepen clinical discernment, strengthen confidence, and feel less alone with the complexity of the work.
CLINICAL SUPERVISION SERVICES
About the Group
Advanced Consultation for Complex Relational Trauma is a four-session supervision and consultation group for therapists who want more support with complex, layered, and relationally challenging clinical work.
Each two-hour session is organized around a focused monthly theme that commonly arise in complex trauma work. The sessions may include guided reflection, experiential supervision, case studies, and discussion of nuanced clinical moments. These pieces are designed to help participants deepen into their own case material and consider what may be unfolding within the client, the therapist, and the therapeutic relationship.
A significant portion of each session is devoted to extended consultation, offering space to explore complex cases, sticky moments, relational dilemmas, and questions about how to respond with greater clarity, confidence, and relational sensitivity.
The group meets on Thursday mornings from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT, online through Zoom for Healthcare.
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Dates for Fall 2026: Sept 17th, Oct 15th, Nov 19th, Dec 10th
CLINICAL SUPERVISION SERVICES
When the Work Becomes More Complex
As therapists gain experience, the questions often become less about knowing a particular intervention and more about knowing how to respond when there is no obvious next step.
How do we choose a direction when a client brings several different concerns at once?
How do we know when to proceed, slow down, resource, or shift the frame?
What do we do when we recognize that we are rescuing, over-functioning, withdrawing, or becoming overly careful?
How do we stay present when a client feels hurt, disappointed, angry, or misunderstood?
How do we think about cases that feel slow-moving, circular, or particularly difficult to hold?
Advanced relational work asks us to attend not only to what the client is saying, but to the whole clinical field: the client’s nervous-system presentation, their relational expectations and protective strategies, the therapist’s internal responses, and what is unfolding between them.
This group offers a place to slow these moments down, understand them more deeply, and consider what a grounded, ethical, and relationally responsive next step might be.
What this group can help you develop
This group is designed to help you:
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deepen clinical discernment when several possible directions are present
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provide gentle structure and focus without overriding the client​
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make different therapeutic choices when you notice yourself rescuing, over-functioning, withdrawing, or becoming overly cautious
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identify subtle ruptures and respond with greater openness and skill
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engage in repair without becoming defensive, over-apologetic, or overly responsible
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understand complex, layered, or slow-moving cases with greater clarity
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distinguish naturally slow developmental work from treatment that has become circular or stalled
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become more comfortable using yourself thoughtfully in the relational field
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leave consultation with a clearer understanding of what may be happening and what to try next
Relational Responsiveness as an Advanced Clinical Skill
Relational responsiveness is not simply about being warm, empathic, or supportive. It involves the ability to remain in contact with the client while also thinking clinically about what the work requires.
The advanced therapist learns to hold several possibilities at once. They may need to stay attuned to the client’s pace while also providing structure. They may need to honour the client’s stated goals while recognizing that the client’s nervous system does not yet have enough capacity for the work they are requesting. They may need to acknowledge the impact of a rupture without collapsing into shame or abandoning an important boundary.
This requires clinical discernment, self-awareness, steadiness, and the capacity to tolerate uncertainty. The goal is not to become a therapist who always knows the answer. It is to become more able to recognize what is happening, use consultation well, and choose the next step with greater confidence and care.
Who This Group Is For
This group may be a good fit if you:
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already have foundational experience or training in complex trauma work. You may have completed Core Skills or have equivalent clinical experience
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want more time for thoughtful and in-depth case consultation
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work with clients whose presentations feel relationally complex, layered, or difficult to understand
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find yourself feeling overly responsible, highly careful, stuck, frustrated, protective, or unsure with particular clients
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want to become more confident navigating rupture and repair
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want support clarifying session direction, pacing, and treatment focus
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value experiential reflection, clinical discussion, and learning from the perspectives of other therapists
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want a supportive place to bring the moments that are hardest to hold alone
You do not need to consider yourself an “expert” to join. This group is for therapists who are ready to reflect more deeply on their work and bring curiosity to what happens within themselves, within the client, and between them.
SESSION 1
September 17th
Clinical Direction & Discernment
From the Opening Container to the Session Pathway
We will explore how to use the opening minutes of a session to understand what the client is bringing, track their nervous-system presentation, and collaboratively identify a manageable and meaningful direction for the work.
The focus will be on helping therapists gently organize complexity without becoming rigid or overly directive.
We will consider when the work may need stabilization, ANS resourcing, trauma re-processing, relational or developmental exploration, shame work, grief, parts-oriented work, or support with identity and agency.
SESSION 2
October 8th
Countertransference and Therapist Pulls
Choosing a Different Relational Position
This session focuses on the roles therapists can become pulled into, such as rescuing, over-functioning, withdrawing, becoming overly careful, or feeling responsible for creating change.
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We will explore what these responses may reveal about the client’s relational expectations, the therapist’s own vulnerabilities, and the pattern developing between them.
Through guided reflection and case discussion, participants will consider how to re-centre and make a more grounded therapeutic choice without becoming detached or abandoning the client.
SESSION 3
November 19th
Rupture and Relational Repair
Staying Present When Something Goes Wrong
Ruptures may show up through anger, withdrawal, sudden compliance, missed sessions, politeness, or a subtle loss of emotional contact. This session will deepen therapists’ ability to recognize these shifts and respond with greater openness and skill.
We will explore what rupture activates in the therapist, how to acknowledge impact without collapsing into shame or defensiveness, and how to invite the client’s experience while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
We will also consider clear and professional ways of documenting clinically significant moments of rupture and repair.
SESSION 4
December 10th
Complex Cases and Challenging Clinical Moments
Bringing the Advanced Skills Together
The final session focuses on cases that feel especially layered, slow-moving, relationally challenging, or difficult to hold alone.
Through extended consultation, we will bring together clinical discernment, nervous-system tracking, countertransference, relational dynamics, and treatment direction.
The aim is to help therapists understand what may be maintaining the difficulty, recognize meaningful movement that may be easy to miss, and identify one small, realistic next step.
SESSION TAKE-HOME RESOURCES
Practical Resources to Bring Into Your Work
Participants will receive practical resources connected to the themes of the group. These may include clinical discernment maps, collaborative framing prompts, countertransference and therapist-pull reflection tools, rupture and repair language, documentation examples, and advanced relational case-consultation worksheets.
The intention is for you to leave with not only greater insight and clinical clarity, but also resources you can return to as you work with complex client presentations.
Welcome to our community
Advanced clinical work can sometimes feel isolating. The cases that stay with us are often the ones where there is no straightforward answer, where our own responses become part of the work, or where we quietly wonder whether we are doing enough.
This group offers a place to bring those moments into a thoughtful and supportive community. You will have opportunities to learn from the clinical perspectives of others, receive feedback, share uncertainty openly, and discover that many of the struggles that arise in complex trauma work are not evidence of failure. They are part of the depth and humanity of the work.
The group is designed to support both clinical growth and genuine connection with other therapists who care deeply about offering ethical, relationally responsive care.
My Vision for the Advanced Consultation Group
My vision for this group is to create a place where experienced and developing therapists can bring the clinical moments that are difficult to understand or hold alone. I do not see advanced supervision as a place where therapists need to arrive with polished answers or demonstrate that they have mastered the work. I see it as a place to become more honest, reflective, and clinically discerning.
My hope is that you leave each session feeling less alone with the complexity, clearer about what may be happening, and more confident in your ability to stay present and make thoughtful therapeutic choices. This group is part of my wider vision of building a community of relationally responsive therapists who can work with complex relational trauma with compassion, skill, humility, and respect for both the client’s humanity and their own.
Questions You May Have
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How are the two-hour sessions structured?
Each session begins with a brief clinical framework and group discussion. Some sessions will also include guided reflection or experiential exploration. The remainder of the session is devoted to extended case consultation, where participants can bring questions and clinical material, receive feedback, and learn from the experience and perspectives of the group.
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What resources will I receive as part of the group?
Each session includes a focused learning piece, group discussion, experiential reflection, and time for clinical consultation. Participants will receive practical resources connected to the themes of the group. These may include clinical discernment maps, collaborative framing prompts, countertransference and therapist-pull reflection tools, rupture and repair language, documentation examples, and advanced relational case-consultation worksheets.
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Can these sessions count toward supervision hours?
The sessions may be eligible to count as group clinical supervision or consultation hours, depending on the requirements of your professional association, regulatory body, workplace, or training program. Participants are responsible for confirming the requirements that apply to them. Attendance confirmation can be provided upon request.
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Can I register for both Core Skills and Advanced Group?
Yes. Taking both groups can be a valuable way to engage in this work. Core Skills focuses on the foundational relational capacities underneath complex trauma therapy. Advanced Consultation gives you more space to apply and extend those capacities through experiential reflection and complex case discussion.
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How do I know if the Advanced Group is the right for me?
This group may suit you if you are looking for more than foundational teaching and want extended consultation around complex clinical decisions, relational patterns, rupture and repair, and challenging or slow-moving cases. You are welcome to book a complimentary 15 minute meet-and-greet if you would like to talk through whether Core Skills, Advanced Consultation, or both would best support your professional goals.
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Do I need to attend all four sessions?
This is a four-session series, and participants are encouraged to attend all four whenever possible. You are still very welcome to join if you can attend at least three of the four sessions. To help maintain continuity within the group, your three or four session dates must be selected and booked when you register. What is the cancellation policy? Because this is a closed group and your place is reserved for the dates you select, registrations are considered confirmed once booked and session fees are non-refundable. If you need to miss a booked session because of illness or another last-minute circumstance, the session fee will still apply. However, you will receive the session resources, along with a written summary of the teaching and discussion that does not include any identifying client or participant information.
If This Group Feels Like a Good Fit
If this group speaks to you and feels like the kind of support you are looking for, you are warmly invited to join us.
If you have questions, are still thinking it through, or would like to talk about whether the group is the right fit, you are very welcome to send me a message through the contact form or book a complimentary 15 minute clinical supervision meet-and-greet.
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If you are ready to join us, you can register in two ways:
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Send me a message through my contact form to express interest or reach out with any questions. Please indicate all the dates you are able to attend.
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Or follow the link below to the online booking page. Once there, scroll down to Supervision, where you’ll find Core Skills for Complex PTSD. Please add yourself to all of the session dates you’re able to attend. You’re welcome to join the group as long as you can attend at least three of the four sessions.
Structure & Details
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Fall 2026 dates: Sept 17th, Oct 15th, Nov 19th, Dec 10th
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Sessions are two hours long and take place on Thursday mornings from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT
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Online through Zoom for Healthcare.
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The fee is $120 per two-hour session. Registration is for the full four-session group, for a total cost of $480​​
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​To support continuity, trust, and a cohesive group experience, these are closed four-session groups. Participants are asked to commit to attending at least three of the four sessions and to identify any dates they are unable to attend when registering.