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This Training Will Take You Farther Than Others
Even Seasoned Therapists Tell Us This Information is New 

What sets Shirley and Jen’s clinical supervision training apart is the depth, sophistication, and lived clinical training and wisdom that underpins every module. This isn’t a simple refresher on documentation or ethics you have to re-learn to work with supervisees.  Instead, it’s a comprehensive immersion into both the science and art of supervision itself.

 

Our process provides a clear, teachable pathway for maintaining vital pacing, guiding client psychological development, and cultivating the therapist’s capacity to stay grounded, recognize and work with nuance, and know how to handle even the most complicated clinical moments.

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In this training, we go far beyond the standard 'checklist' model of supervision to explore the real-world complexities that get both therapists and clients stuck: lack of updated neuroscience understanding, incomplete case conceptualization, trauma re-enactments, relational impasses, over-identifications, and the subtle ruptures that quietly derail progress. You’ll learn how to identify and untangle these repeating supervision themes through an integrative framework that blends neuroscience, attachment theory, as well as the integration of powerful top-down and bottom up processes that world renowned mental health experts agree are necessary for good and sustainable client outcomes. Teaching you this will ensure that you never again feel immobilized or lost with a supervisee or client issue - yes, you will always have something effective to go to

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Finally, this training is based on current clinical research and is highly trauma-informed. Although this has become an overused buzzword in the mental health field, here we reclaimed it as the profound clinical stance it was meant to be. We unpack what it truly means to see through the lens of relationship development, safety, comprehensive treatment planning and approaches, and growth that takes root—not just with clients, but through the supervisory relationship itself. Here, supervision can become a both restorative and developmental container for both therapist and client growth.

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This is a training that doesn’t stop at knowledge—it transforms how you conceptualize, teach and guide, and how you show up during the manageable and difficult clinical moments.

Shirley PorterM.Ed, RP

Hi, I'm Shirley, and I look very forward to working with you. Let me tell you a bit about myself...

 

I graduated from the M.Ed. Counselling program at Western University more than 30 years ago. I have offered psychotherapy to thousands of adolescents and adults, while supervising many clinical placement students, and therapists qualifying for full RP status with the CRPO. â€‹

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I am a Registered Psychotherapist with the CRPO, and have been an Adjunct Professor in the graduate counselling program at Western University. I have also published three psycho-educational books - two regarding complex trauma and PTSD, and one guiding the use of comprehensive DBT with depression (releasing January, 2026 through New Harbinger Publishing).  I've also published numerous articles on various clinical and mental health issues with choosingtherapy.com. 

 

Throughout my years working with all types of people and clinical concerns, I have developed a deep respect and clear understanding of what it means to be person-centred and deeply trauma-informed.  In other words, I believe that everything we do in therapy sessions must be collaborative, paced to the client's unique needs and style, and implemented in a gentle but impactful way to create effective change and growth - on both a cognitive and nervous system level.

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Because good and sustainable healing often requires an integrative approach, I’ve also completed extensive training in several evidence-based and transformative modalities. These include: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT), EMDR Therapy, Parts Work Therapy, and the Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM). I use each of these approaches creatively, while grounding them in the principles of the Polyvagal Theory—a highly regarded, evidence-based framework that brings comprehensive case conceptualization while supporting therapeutic progress beyond coping strategies, thought and behaviour change, or life management skills alone.

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For more about me, please visit: www.traumaandbeyond.com

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Jenifer FreedyM.Ed, RSW

Hi, I'm Jen. I would love to share some really vital (and very cool) information with you to help you take your supervision sessions, and even your own work with clients, to the next level. A little about me...

 

I'm a graduate of the M.Ed. Counselling Psychology Program at Western University (UWO), and I'm a Registered Social Worker with the OCSWSSW.​​​​

I have worked as a sessional professor at King's University College where I developed and taught original curricula on traumatic stress and loss in the Thanatology Program; I have also taught about complex trauma treatment through Leading Edge Seminars.  I have been a member of the Post-Traumatic Stress Research Team (lead by Dr. Ruth Lanius) at University Hospital in London, and I have published material regarding complicated client issues for university text and Psychology Today. My new book, "Reclaiming What Was Lost: A Woman's Guide to Healing Childhood Sexual Trauma Using Parts Work, Somatic Techniques and Polyvagal Principles" (New Harbinger Publishing) releases in 2026. 
 
For over 25 years, I have provided in-depth psychotherapy to a diverse population, specializing in complex issues that include advanced trauma treatment, personality disorders, and DID diagnoses. Because I believe that effective therapy requires a diverse and integrative approach, I've trained extensively in a number of well-established and powerful therapies that are very effective when used with creativity and skill. These include: Somatic Experiencing Therapy, EMDR, Neurofeedback, Parts Work Therapy, CRM Therapy, and CBT. Combined with the most up-to-date research on the brain and nervous system, these methods of treatment have proven indispensable in my work with people, and have helped my students and supervisees reach new levels of clinical skill. 

For more about me, please visit:
www.jeniferfreedy.com

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