Clinical Supervision Services
As clinicians, our greatest tool is our authentic self. Navigating the complexities of child, adolescent, and family therapy requires not just clinical knowledge, but a deeply supportive space to develop your unique professional voice.
My approach to supervision is a relationship-based, developmental process. Grounded in Family Systems Theory and a Humanistic framework, I meet you where you are in your professional journey. Whether you are an early-career associate looking for active, structured guidance or an experienced clinician seeking a collaborative, consultative space, my goal is to help you build strong systemic thinking, sharp case conceptualization, and unwavering clinical confidence.
Areas of Specialized Expertise
While I welcome clinicians working across a variety of settings, I offer specialized, developmentally informed, and trauma-responsive guidance for those looking to deepen their expertise in:
- Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health (ages 0–5)
- Attachment, Adoption, & Foster Care Concerns
- Trauma Exposure, Abuse Histories, & Nervous System Regulation (navigating anxiety and fight/flight/freeze states)
- Navigating Child Welfare Systems (DHS)
- Clinician Wellness: Proactively managing vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout.
The Core Philosophy: In child and family work, it is easy to become overwhelmed by the system or lose your theoretical grounding. My supervision mirrors my clinical work: helping you build a rock-solid foundational framework so you can remain flexible, mindfully attuned, and regulated in the room—because when clients escalate, we regulate.
My Supervisory Style & Modalities
I utilize the Systems Approach to Supervision (SAS) to guide our day-to-day interactions, focusing heavily on reflective capacity, ethical practice, and cultural responsiveness. Because words can sometimes limit us, I actively integrate experiential mediums into our supervision to deepen insight and support your well-being.
Our work together may include:
- Experiential Processing: Utilizing sand tray, art, and play-based mediums to gain fresh perspectives on tough cases (and modeling interventions you can use directly with clients).
- Reflective Capacity & Mindfulness: Centering practices to support emotional regulation and manage the heavy emotional lifting of our field.
- Integrating Diverse Frameworks: While I do not provide formal training or certifications in specific proprietary models, our clinical conceptualization will be heavily informed by a variety of trauma-informed, systems-based, and child-centered modalities.
- Case Consultation & Documentation Review: Practical feedback, regular 6-month evaluation notes, and outcome tools (like ORS/SRS) to ensure you are meeting your professional goals.
Current Supervision Opportunities
External Clinical Supervision
For Associate Clinicians employed elsewhere.
Who it’s for:
Associates who plan to remain at their current workplace but want to supplement their experience with specialized, relationally-focused supervision in early childhood, teens, parenting, and family systems.
Timeline: Available immediately. I am ready to review contracts and begin working with external supervisees within the coming weeks
Clinical Supervision & Joining the Practice
Supervision for Registered Associates Joining Storytellers
Who It’s For:
We are continuously looking to welcome dedicated associate-level clinicians (LPC and LMFT Registered Associates) into the Storytellers practice family! As a growing practice, our goal is to provide our associates with comprehensive clinical mentorship, dedicated high-quality supervision time, and focused attention to support their professional growth. Joining Storytellers means full integration into a collaborative, heart-centered practice, direct clinical support, a steady client referral stream, and deep investment in your development as a therapist.
Timeline & Inquiries:
We review associate applications and connect with interested clinicians on an ongoing basis as practice opportunities expand. If you are currently or meet the qualifications to be a Registered Associate in Oregon and are aligned with our relational, trauma-informed, and child/family-centered philosophy, we would love to start a conversation with you.
Interested in joining our team or seeking external clinical supervision? Reach out via our contact page to connect with Elizabeth Orthmann, LMFT.