Clinical Supervision for LMSWs – Texas

You’ve earned your MSW – what’s next?

Congratulations! Are you ready for the next step? Becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Texas is challenging and rewarding.

As you know, the next step of the process requires obtaining supervised hours.

I offer online group and individual supervision to LMSWs throughout Texas and I’d love to talk with you about your goals.

What are the requirements?

The Texas Social Work Board has four main requirements.

First, after receiving your MSW, you must have 3,000 supervised hours working in an employment setting that enables you to assess, diagnose, and treat mental health issues using DSM-V criteria.

Second, you must meet with your LCSW-S supervisor for at least 100 hours.

Third, you must complete these hours in no less than two years but no more than four years.

Finally, this translates into meeting with your supervisor a minimum of four hours per month, individually or in a group format. With me, you can accomplish this conveniently online. To qualify for supervision, you must have direct client contact for at least four hours a week, using DSM V criteria to assess, diagnose, and treat a mental health or substance abuse disorder.

What’s the financial investment?

The investment is $290/month and includes two 1.5-hour virtual group sessions and a 1-hour individual session each month.

Being employed for at least 30 hours a week allows you to complete supervision in 25 months.

Be sure to check with your agency to see if they offer the employee benefit of reimbursing the cost of supervision.

What does your investment include?

While working with me, you will learn about the application of the DSM-V-TR and the NASW Code of Ethics. I offer guidance in continuing education options and clinical training certificates. You will have ongoing access to me outside of the group for case consultation and tackling ethical dilemmas.

We will review theory and therapeutic modalities to help you with both your clients and LCSW exam preparation. I will provide documentation review and feedback, including case reviews and ethical dilemma presentations.

I assume responsibility and liability for your clients and all the decisions you make related to your clients throughout supervision. My license is at risk! Thus, I will prioritize the well-being of your clients and provide you with thoughtful, ethical, and engaging supervision. Plus, we have fun!

I will help you complete and submit all documentation required by the Board for you to receive your LCSW. In addition, I will guide you on how to start and manage a private practice and support your personal and professional development and well-being.

Here are my qualifications and areas of interest.

I am a board approved supervisor/LCSW-S in Texas. I hold a Ph.D. in Clinical Social Work, and am licensed as an LCSW in New York and hold telehealth privileges in Florida.

My experience includes case management and psychotherapy across diverse settings and populations, with a strong foundation in working with anxiety, grief, and trauma across the lifespan.

Building on this general clinical foundation, I have developed specialized expertise in adoption and foster care—supporting grandparents raising grandchildren, domestic and international adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents—as well as in working with neurodivergent clients, including ADHD, learning differences, and less-obvious or masked autism presentations often missed in traditional assessment.

I also have extensive experience addressing co-occurring concerns such as sleep disturbance and disorders of gut–brain interaction (DGBIs such as IBS and functional nausea), using a neuroscience-informed, trauma-responsive approach.

My clinical work has incorporated play therapy and expressive arts, including structured therapeutic writing approaches such as Written Exposure Therapy and other trauma-informed writing protocols to support emotional processing and integration.

My approach is client-centered, strengths-based, LGBTQIA+ inclusive and affirming, grounded in cultural humility, and deeply committed to social and racial justice.

With 30 years of experience, I have worked in shelters, corporate environments, corrections, adoption agencies, mental health agencies, schools, and private practice. I also have over 17 years of university teaching experience in BSW and MSW programs where I presently teach diagnostic assessment (DSM V-TR), spirituality, and practice classes. I have extensive training in CBT, CBT-I, ACT, DBT, IFS, SFBT, attachment theory, EMDR, ART, neurodiversity, mindfulness, clinical hypnosis, trauma treatment, and spiritually sensitive practice.

My goal as a clinical supervisor is to support your development of sound clinical judgment, ethical decision-making, and integrated case conceptualization, especially when working with complex presentations involving anxiety, trauma, neurodiversity, grief, and relational systems.

Contact me at (512) 766-5695 to discover if my approach aligns with your areas of interest and professional goals.

I look forward to helping you grow professionally!