Become a Reflective Clinical Supervisor: Training for Supervisors and Emerging Supervisors. (Level 1 training)

 Earn 22 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, and systemic dimensions of the work. This short course offers a different approach—one grounded in reflective practice, cultural humility, compassion, and the courage to learn through vulnerability.

Based on the Reflective Practice and Group Supervision–Consultation (RPGS-C) model developed at the Ackerman Institute, this training prioritizes emotional presence, attunement, and the experience of “being with” others. Rooted in the Ackerman Relational Approach, RPGS-C also integrates ideas from narrative, emotion-focused, and attachment-based therapies. It invites a deeper awareness of self and other and an understanding of the systemic influences that shape us.

Designed for supervisors, supervisors-in-training, and direct service providers, this experiential course includes an individual consultation, brief lecturettes, experiential exercises, role plays, and Reflective Group Supervision sessions. Participants will strengthen their ability to bring their emotional presence, cultural humility, and reflective capacity to their work—and gain practical tools to support responsive practice across complex and evolving systems of care.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

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

Date/Time:

October 3, October 24, 10:30-1:30 pm (EST); November 7, December 5, 2025, 10:30-12:30 pm (EST); January 9, February 6, March 6, April 17, May 1, and May 29, 2026, 10:30-12:30 pm (EST)

10 classes and 1 individual consultation

Who Should Attend:

Clinicians, designed for supervisors, supervisors-in-training

Meet the Presenter: Christine Reynolds and Tara Starin-Basi

Christine Reynolds, LCSW is an adjunct faculty member of the Ackerman Institute and a founding faculty member of the Institute’s Center for the Developing Child and Family, where she consults and provides training on working with families with young children. Christine has over 25 years of postgraduate clinical and consulting experience in child welfare, home-based family therapy, community mental health, early childhood, and private practice in rural and urban environments. She has enhanced a model of supervision called Reflective Group Supervision/Consultation (RGS-C). Additionally, Christine maintains a private practice in Manhattan specializing in families, couples, and children.

Tara Starin-Basi, LCSW-R (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.

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