Apprenticeship in Supervision: Supervising for Staff Wellbeing

Thursday, December 11, 2025
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Online via Zoom

Join the Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® of Minnesota Center for Rural Behavioral Health for a 6-hour supervision training.

Cost: $125

Earn 6 CEUs!
This training has been approved for 6 CEU's by the Minnesota boards of Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Behavioral Health and Therapy, and Psychology as well as licensing boards in SD, ND, and WI.  (Awaiting approval for all)

Training Summary:
Clinical supervision is a principal component of learning and growth within the mental health professions, ensuring that new professionals are equipped with the insight and skills they need to practice effectively, ethically, and sustainably. The mental health field relies heavily on skilled supervisors acting as mentors to new professionals, with most learning occurring on the job. The supervisory relationship plays a vital role in the professional development of supervisees, offering concrete skills alongside support in making meaning from difficult client and workplace experiences. Traumatic Stress experienced by providers due to secondary workplace exposure is one of the greatest ethical concerns and workforce challenges we face in the social services. Clinical supervision, regardless of the level of licensure or years of practice is critical to mitigating the effects of the work on individual providers. At its best, effective supervision can facilitate the professional wellbeing of supervisees through understanding and intervening with secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, moral injury, and burnout. This training will emphasize learning the Taibbi Four-Stage Model used to attune to supervisee developmental needs, integrating the Reflective Practice framework to for in-session structure and to facilitate supervisee insight and growth. This training will address best practice interventions on the individual and organizational level with supervisees to ensure work sustainability and professional longevity. This will include specific processing strategies, framing the work within the larger context of providing care, and connecting supervisees with organizational resources.

• Develop greater clarity on the role and function of supervisory relationships.
• Learn Robert Taibbi’s Four Stage Model and target clinical supervision interventions to the developmental stage of the supervisee.
• Understand and differentiate between Secondary Traumatic Stress, Vicarious Trauma, Moral Injury, and Burnout.
• Understand the role of a supervisor in management and support of VT, STS, and Burnout with staff, applying specific strategies to staff support.
• Learn the basics of Reflective Practice for integration into your role as a supervisor as a traumatic exposure mitigation framework.
• Address ethical difficulties and clinical challenges presented by supervisees effectively through use of a concrete supervisory framework.

Meet Your Presenter: 
Angela Lewis-Dmello, MSW, LICSW

Angela is the President and CEO of Northeast Youth and Family Services. She has experience in nonprofit leadership, program development and evaluation, training and supervision, and trauma treatment research. Angela is passionate about both individual level and systems level change and is thrilled to support NYFS’s work providing trauma informed and culturally responsive care to the community, with a focus on youth and their families.

Angela is trained as a clinical social worker and has spent the majority of her career working in trauma-laden environments as an administrator and psychotherapist in child sexual violence, domestic violence, refugee resettlement, and torture trauma. Angela has experience providing trainings and workshops on a variety of topics related to trauma and interpersonal violence, as well as leadership and supervision locally, regionally, and nationally. Angela is especially invested in addressing workforce level issues such as provider attrition from the mental health and nonprofit sectors through organizational interventions supporting staff wellness and work sustainability by addressing secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, moral injury, and burnout.

Angela holds a bachelor’s degree in global studies and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Minnesota. Angela served as a Community Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work teaching graduate students psychotherapy methods courses from 2012 - 2021. Angela founded Transforming Trauma to provide training and consultation to organizations implementing trauma responsive care, staff wellness and secondary traumatic stress initiatives, reflective practice, design of trauma informed environments, and healing following organizational trauma.

Register Here 

Registration Questions:  Email workforce@mnsu.edu or call 507-389-1094
Training Questions:  Email elizabeth.harstad.3@mnsu.edu