Become a Reflective Clinical Supervisor

 Earn 20 CE Contact Hours

Supervisors and practitioners in mental health, schools, and community settings are working in emotionally complex systems during a period of great uncertainty. Traditional supervision often privileges solutions over reflection, leaving little space for the emotional, relational, cultural, and systemic dimensions of the work. This course offers a different approach—one grounded in reflective practice, cultural humility, compassion, and the courage to learn through vulnerability.

Based on the Systemic Reflective Group Supervision–Consultation (SRGS-C) model developed at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, this training prioritizes emotional presence, attunement, and the practice of “being with” others. Rooted in the Ackerman Relational Approach, SRGS-C integrates family systems, narrative, emotion-focused, and attachment-based perspectives while attending to the social and cultural contexts that shape helping relationships.

Designed for supervisors, supervisors-in-training, and direct service providers, this course combines brief lecturettes with experiential and reflective learning opportunities. Participants will strengthen their capacity to bring emotional presence, cultural humility, and reflective awareness to their work while developing practical tools to support responsive practice across complex and evolving systems of care.

This Training Includes:

• Brief lectures and demonstrations
• Experiential learning and reflective exercises
• Systemic Reflective Group Supervision–Consultation (SRGS-C) sessions
• Facilitated practice opportunities
• Two individual consultation sessions

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe the core principles of the Systemic Reflective Group Supervision–Consultation (SRGS-C) model, including its foundations in cultural humility, systemic and relational thinking, emotion-focused, attachment-based, and narrative approaches.
• Apply reflective practices in clinical and supervisory settings, with attention to emotional attunement, intersubjectivity, parallel process, social context, and systemic awareness.
• Cultivate their capacity to foster “safe enough”, relationally attuned spaces that support compassion for self and others, vulnerability, and the emotional well-being of helpers and those they serve.

Dates/Times:

Fridays, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
10 classes and 2 individual consultations
October 2, 16, November 6, 20, December 4, 18, 2026
January 15, February 5, February 19, March 5, 2027

Who Should Attend:

Designed for supervisors, supervisors-in-training

Meet the Presenters:

Christine Reynolds, LCSW (she/her) is the Director of the Systemic Reflective Practice and Group Supervision Project and a founding faculty member of the Center for the Developing Child and Family at the Ackerman Institute, where she also serves as faculty. She provides national and international training and consultation in reflective supervision and practice—a model recognized as a Frontiers of Innovation project by Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child. Ms. Reynolds has extensive experience in child welfare, home-based family therapy, community mental health, early childhood programs, and private practice in both rural and urban settings. Her work focuses on enhancing the emotional well-being, reflective capacity, and resilience of professionals across the helping fields—including clinicians, front-line staff, and organizational leaders—through a lens of cultural humility, relational attunement, and systemic awareness. Additionally, she maintains a private practice in Manhattan, specializing in families, couples, and children.

Tara Starin-Basi, LCSW (she/her) is a graduate of the Ackerman Institute’s Clinical Externship Program, has been a Clinical Supervisor in Ackerman’s Clinic and taught in the foundations program. She is a multiracial, cis-hetero woman (she/her), born in England to a South Asian, Indian father and 3rd generation white-Italian American mother and moved to NYC in 2009. Outside of Ackerman, Tara is Co-Director of the Child and Adolescent Trauma Program at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, serves as a clinical supervisor at Safe Horizon Counseling Center, adjunct faculty at NYU and is a certified Good Inside Parent Coach. Tara also maintains a small private practice in NYC where she works with individuals, couples, and parents who have experienced trauma. Alongside being a therapist, Tara is also a mother and partner who strives to be the therapist, educator, and consultant that she would want for herself and her loved ones. She has both personal and professional experience in the nuances and sensitivities occurring in multiracial, multicultural, and interfaith families. Tara is committed to organizing around undoing racism in our larger societal world and approach therapy, consultation and coaching from anti-oppressive, liberatory and trauma-informed perspectives.

Kathryn Hall, LCSW (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist with extensive experience in both clinical practice and organizational leadership. She is the Managing Director of Social Work at Achievement First, where she oversees a team of more than 65 social workers across three states, provides clinical supervision, and develops trauma-informed policies and practices. In her private practice, Kat works with individuals, couples, and families, specializing in trauma, intergenerational dynamics, identity, and relational conflict. She has trained at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, is Level 2 trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), and is a Center Clinical Associate on the Systemic Reflective Practice and Group Supervision Project. Drawing on systemic, relational, and psychodynamic approaches, Kathryn is deeply committed to cultural humility, reflective practice, and fostering clinical growth in both individual and group supervision settings.