Clinical Supervision

With the goal of supporting individuals wishing to become behavioral health clinicians in San Miguel County, BHS has created a Clinical Supervision program to help students fund supervision hours and help clinicians become certified supervisors.

Applications:

Student Application

Supervisor Application

Requirements for students:

Student applies for supervision hours to be paid for through BHS.

  • Application reviewed and if approved, student receives funding for supervision hours to be paid directly to their supervisor

  • Must agree to reimburse the County if within 24 months of receiving funding, the student relocates out of the area and stops serving County residents or workers

  • Once supervision hours are completed, new clinicians must make a good faith effort to serve clients who might otherwise not receive behavioral health services, including but not limited to clients on Medicaid/Medicare, clients without insurance, low-income clients.

  • Must to agree to complete exit survey to inform BHS on the quality of their supervision

Requirements for supervisors:

Supervisor must be accredited through the BHS approved clinical supervisor training program (noted below) and currently serving SMC clients.

  • ACS CCE Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS) Program: https://www.cce-global.org/credentialing/acs

    • REQUIREMENTS:

      • Education: Master's or higher in a mental health field

      • Credential: National Certified Counselor (NCC), Licensed or certified mental health provider, or a Licensed or certified clinical supervisor

      • Professional Disclosure Statement

      • Specialized training

        • You must document completion of either of the following:

          • a. A three–semester-hour graduate course in clinical supervision from a CACREP-accredited program (by transcript)

          • OR b. A 45–clock-hour NBCC-approved workshop training in clinical supervision (by certificate copy)

          • OR c. A total of 45 clock hours of clinical supervision training specific to providing supervision or becoming a supervisor, which must include each of the outlined content areas

      • Mental health related experience

        • You must document a minimum of five years of post-master’s experience in mental health services that includes at least 4,000 hours of direct service with clients. You may substitute a conferred doctorate and/or completed internship for up to three years and 900 hours of the total required.

      • Clinical Supervision Endorsement

        • You must submit an endorsement form documenting a minimum of 100 hours of your own clinical supervision of individuals providing mental health services. Your supervision experience may include individual and/or group supervision, with a maximum of 10 members in a supervision group. You may use supervision of graduate students in training to fulfill this requirement. The endorser of your supervision must be a current NCC or licensed or certified mental health provider and must have training in clinical supervision.

  • Need to be actively practicing

  • Need to agree to be on BHS supervisor registry and availability to supervise one student per year (based on demand)