Advanced Systemic Reflective Clinical Supervision

This advanced training is designed to deepen and expand the reflective practice skills of supervisors and emerging supervisors through participation in the Systemic Reflective Group Supervision–Consultation (SRGS-C) model.

Building on the foundations introduced in Level 1, participants will engage in Systemic Reflective Group Supervision during each class session, creating opportunities to practice, internalize, and apply the core principles and practices of SRGS-C. Through experiential learning, participants will rotate through opportunities to present clinical situations, facilitate reflective group processes, and receive supportive feedback and consultation from peers and instructors.

In addition to the group experience, participants will receive two individual reflective coaching sessions. These consultations provide a space to explore supervisory, clinical, organizational, or leadership challenges while tailoring learning to individual professional goals and developmental needs.

Grounded in systemic, relational, and reflective approaches to supervision, this training emphasizes the development of relational presence, emotional attunement, cultural humility, and the thoughtful use of self. Participants will strengthen their capacity to create safe-enough reflective spaces that foster curiosity, vulnerability, and meaningful exploration of the emotional, relational, and contextual dimensions of clinical and supervisory work.

Core SRGS-C Skills and Practices

Throughout the training, participants will develop and practice the following SRGS-C skills and capacities:

• Actively utilizing relational skills, including active listening, curiosity, empathetic attunement, and validation
• Deepening affective experience and awareness of the “felt sense”
• Practicing “being with” rather than moving prematurely toward solutions
• Cultivating self-awareness and the thoughtful use of self in supervision and leadership
• Moving toward curiosity, emotion, and reflection while resisting the pull toward problem-solving
• Holding the impact of social identities, culture, power, and lived experiences in context
• Encouraging open exploration of feelings, thoughts, wishes, beliefs, and relational patterns
• Facilitating reflective dialogue that promotes meaning-making, connection, and growth

This Online Training Includes:

• Brief lectures and demonstrations
• Experiential learning activities
• Systemic Reflective Group Supervision sessions
• Case presentations
• Facilitated practice opportunities
• Individual reflective coaching sessions

Learning Objectives:

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

• Facilitate Systemic Reflective Group Supervision (SRGS-C) and individual reflective supervision sessions using core SRGS-C principles and practices.
• Create and sustain a safe-enough reflective space that supports vulnerability, curiosity, emotional attunement, and reflective dialogue.
• Apply Systemic Reflective Practice and Group Supervision principles to supervisory, clinical, organizational, and leadership challenges.
• Utilize SRGS-C core skills and the thoughtful use of self to foster supervisees’ reflective capacity, emotional resilience, cultural humility, relational awareness, and clinical effectiveness.

Dates/Times:

Fridays, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
9 classes and 2 individual coaching/reflective supervision sessions (scheduled separately)
September 11, October 9, November 13, December 11, 2026
January 8, February 12, March 12, April 9, May 14, 2027

Who Should Attend:

This training is open to supervisors and emerging supervisors who have:

• Completed SRGS Level 1 training through the Ackerman Institute and/or received prior training in Reflective Supervision

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.