In counseling supervision, an experienced clinician supports a clinician in their clinical work with clients as they work toward licensure or professional development.
Supervision
Counseling supervision is a process in which a more experienced clinician guides and supports a less experienced clinician in their work with clients.
Supervision typically involves a weekly meeting between. During these meetings, the supervisee will discuss their client-facing work as well as issues of professional identity and anything else that is relevant to becoming a better art therapist or counselor. Art therapist supervision may also include artmaking as part of the process.
Supervision with Erin
Erin has extensive clinical, administrative, & leadership experience. She’s also trained in Communications, Marketing, & Graphic Design.
She has worked at a non-profit community art therapy organization and at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where she was the sole art therapist for the local medical center. She developed the art therapy program and provided clinical art therapy services to veterans with various concerns, including substance use disorders, anxiety, depression, military sexual trauma (MST), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Erin has served on the National Recreation Therapy and Creative Arts Therapy Field Advisory Board as a subject matter expert offering guidance on the Creative Arts Therapies (CAT) supporting VA central office’s national initiatives. Her committee projects included updating the Veteran’s Health Administration (VHA) qualification standards for art, music, dance, drama, & recreation therapy to support the transition from Title 5 positions to Hybrid Title 38 medical professionals. There she also created clinical documentation for all creative arts therapy disciplines in support of the electronic health record (EHR) modernization initiative, a coordinated effort between the Department of Defense and Department, of Veteran Affairs, and Cerner, the EHR system. Erin also served as the workgroup lead to draft and define the federal scope of practice for art therapists working at the VA and developed training materials to support Creative Arts Therapy services telehealth implementation.
Erin has also worked as an Adjunct Professor at Adler University teaching courses in Trauma, Grief & Loss, Parenting, Group Art Therapy, Community Psychology, Professional Development, Issues and Ethics and Practicum Supervision.