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Welcome to Aspen Grove Counseling

Clinical Supervision

Embodied Supervision for Trauma-Focused Clinicians

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Supervision that supports the whole clinician
 

Somatically informed clinical supervision for LCMHC-As in North Carolina
 

The early years of practice are demanding. You're building clinical skills, meeting licensure requirements, and sitting with people's pain, often while still finding your footing. Good supervision should help you grow in all of it, without leaving you depleted.
 

At Aspen Grove Counseling, we offer clinical supervision with Meg for Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associates (LCMHC-As) working toward full licensure in North Carolina. Our approach is somatic and attachment informed: alongside case conceptualization, ethics, and treatment planning, we pay attention to what's happening in your body as the clinician and possible enactments and stuck points in the room with your client. That awareness makes you a steadier, more attuned, and more sustainable therapist.

What "somatically informed" supervision means
 

Counseling is relational work, and the clinician's nervous system is part of the room. A somatically informed supervisor treats your bodily experience as clinical information: the tightness in your chest when a client goes quiet, the urge to rescue, the fog that settles in the third session of the day.
 

In supervision, this means we:

  • Notice your body's responses to clients as data about the therapeutic process, including countertransference and parallel process

  • Build practical regulation skills so you can stay present with intense material

  • Explore how trauma, attachment, and stress show up in the therapy relationship, for client and clinician alike

  • Strengthen your ability to track a client's nervous system state, not only their words

  • Guard against burnout and vicarious trauma with habits you can sustain

This does not replace the clinical, ethical, and administrative core of supervision. It deepens it. We still review cases, build diagnostic and treatment-planning skills, and make sure your practice meets professional and legal standards.

Who this is for
 

This supervision is designed for LCMHC-As in North Carolina who are:

  • Working toward the supervised practice hours required for LCMHC licensure

  • Seeking a supervisor to sign a Board-approved supervision contract

  • Working with trauma, anxiety, or other emotionally demanding caseloads

  • Interested in somatic, trauma-informed, or body-based approaches

  • Wanting supervision that feels supportive, collaborative, and honest

You don't need prior somatic training. Curiosity is enough.
 
Meeting NC Board requirements
 

We provide supervision in line with the North Carolina Board of Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselors. The Board requires LCMHC-As to complete 3,000 hours of supervised practice, including at least 100 hours of clinical supervision, and your supervision contract must be approved by the Board before you begin counseling.

Our supervision includes:

  • Help preparing and submitting your supervision contract

  • Individual supervision, with group supervision available 

  • Review of cases using methods the Board requires, such as recordings or direct observation, not self-report alone

  • Accurate supervision logs and timely quarterly and final reports

  • Guidance on your path to LCMHC, including your application timeline

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