Consultation & Supervision Circles
At Shelterwood Collective, we believe that no one should have to hold this work alone.
Connecting to others about our work, whether through consultation or supervision, is a vital relational practice — one that shapes how clinicians learn to think, feel, and work in the presence of others. These circles are inspired by the simple truth that sometimes you just need to get to somebody. Having a consistent, relational place to land is grounding and sustaining. Consultation and supervision are not just about clinical problem-solving; they’re about belonging, continuity, and being witnessed in the long arc of this work.
About Consult and Supervision Circles:
Consult Circles:
A consultation group is a consistent, accessible space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to come together in community — to think, reflect, wonder, and metabolize the work alongside one another. These groups are designed as inclusive, judgment-free containers where you can bring real questions, real cases, and your real self.
Consultation groups are an essential part of ethical, embodied, and sustainable practice. They offer:
Ongoing clinical support and perspective
Relief from isolation and over-identification
Opportunities to learn from the lived experience of peers
A space to integrate theory, intuition, and personhood
Support for both new and seasoned clinicians navigating complexity, doubt, and growth
When held well, consultation strengthens not only our clinical skill, but our nervous systems, our relationships to the work, and our capacity to stay human inside of it.
Supervision Circles:
Our Supervision Circles are intentional, intimate, and accessible spaces for associate-level therapists seeking high-quality supervision within a communal learning environment. These circles are designed to support clinical development, ethical discernment, and professional identity formation through collaborative, intergenerational mentorship.
A Communal Pathway to Licensure
Supervision Circles offer a more affordable, community-oriented pathway to licensure while maintaining the rigor, responsibility, and ethical clarity required for this stage of practice. Each circle is facilitated by a seasoned therapist who is also a Washington State–approved clinical supervisor.
All participants are required to maintain an individual primary supervisor and receive at least one hour of individual supervision per month. Our Supervision Circles are intended as a valuable supplement—offering a distinctly collaborative and reflective counterbalance to one-on-one supervision.
Each circle is capped at four practitioners to ensure depth, continuity, and meaningful participation. Participants may count one hour of each group meeting as a direct supervision hour toward licensure requirements.
Our Consult and Supervision Group Offerings:
Consult GroupDrop-In Virtual Consult Circle
With Shelley Green
This groups is a bi-weekly drop in space for Shelterwood Collective members. You are welcome to come every time it’s offered or drop in as needed—no commitment, it is here if you want it.
Free and open to members
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Every other Thursday, 1-2:30pm
Virtual Only; Shelley posts the link on the Shelterwood Slack channel before each meeting, or email connect@shelterwoodcollective.com for access
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Shelterwood Members only. All clinicians who want to come are invited.
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Hello! My name is Shelley. I’ve been a part of Shelterwood for over 10 years and love teaching, facilitating, and supervising!
A little about me: I’ve been in private practice for thirteen years, and I’ve also worked in community mental health in outpatient, school-based, and long-term inpatient settings. My BSc was earned in England, majoring in Psychology, with a heavy focus on neuroscience and neurobiology of personality. My Master’s is in Systems Counseling from a local (now closed) program called LIOS, known for being experiential, experimental, and very focused on process/self as therapist/therapeutic relationship. My educational background is a pretty weird mix of hyper-research focused empiricism and funky old-school type therapy (my counseling degree was almost entirely earned sitting in a circle of chairs surrounding a tissue box), and that captures me pretty well!
My clinical perspective is very systems oriented, process oriented, and relationally oriented. As a supervisor my great interest is in supporting therapists in deepening their capacity for the “being with” – a skillset that I fear is decreasingly emphasized in contemporary accredited programs. I use humor, I find profanity irresistible, and I very much enjoy talking about therapy, but I do not take this work lightly.
I’m a deep believer in the importance of consultation. My own consult group has been meeting biweekly for the entire duration of the eleven years I’ve been in practice. We have all grown enormously as a result of the feedback and support we exchange, and I’m very excited for any opportunity to experiment with a similar container alongside other therapists. I look forward to the exchange of ideas, insights and support that lies ahead of us! And I look forward to the opportunity for us all to hold the wider community of clients in our minds and hearts, and give them a better quality of therapy through our shared thoughtfulness and exchange of feedback. Can’t wait!
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Free to Shelterwood Members
Consult GroupBi-weekly Consult Group
Group includes shelterwood members Jill, Julene, Eli.
This closed group meets bi-weekly in-person and is currently looking to add one more member. The general themes of this group are self-as-therapist and transference/countertransference, though discussions are not limited to those themes.
Group members practice through a variety of therapeutic lenses, including but not limited to: psychodynamic, attachment, EFT, existentialism, multiculturalism, somatics, CBT, EMDR, Family Systems, Internal Family Systems, and narrative.
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Contact jill.arndt@ottercovecounseling.com to inquire about joining.
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This group meets regularly with the same people in it and is looking for one new member.
Ideally the new member works relationally, with couples and/or family systems.
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Free
Community Paddle + Networking Group
With Whitney Taylor
A supportive outdoor gathering for therapists and helping professionals to connect, decompress, and build community. We meet twice a month at Juanita Beach Park in Kirkland for conversation, fresh air, and optional paddleboarding or kayaking in a relaxed, welcoming environment.
This is a weekly networking and community gathering created to help us step out of our offices and into the natural world together. The group offers space for meaningful conversation, fresh air, gentle movement, and nervous system restoration through paddleboarding, kayaking, or simply connecting on the beach. The intention is to cultivate authentic community, reduce isolation, and create moments of play and presence alongside others in helping professions.
Open to new members.
Consult Group-
The group meets every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month starting in July from 10:00am–12:00pm, rain or shine. The group meets at Juanita Beach Park in Kirkland, WA, gathering first on the shore before heading out on the water.
People can join by reaching out to Whitney directly via email or social media, or by RSVPing to the event announcements she posts. If you’d like to be added to the Paddle and Connect list, send an e-mail to whitney@sageandsondertherapy.com to stay updated on upcoming meetups, weather conditions, and special community gatherings.
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This group is designed for therapists, healthcare providers, educators, and other helping professionals who spend much of their time indoors holding space for others. It’s also welcoming to anyone craving grounded community, nervous system support, and outdoor connection.
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I'm Whitney, a therapist, outdoor enthusiast, and community builder who believes some of our most meaningful healing happens both in relationship and in connection with the natural world.
As a therapist, I primarily support individuals navigating trauma, life transitions, identity exploration, and the challenges of being human in an increasingly busy world. My work is grounded in curiosity, authenticity, and helping people reconnect with themselves in ways that feel sustainable and meaningful.
My passion for integrating nature and healing extends beyond the therapy room. I previously used to work as a Surf Therapist at Groundswell based in San Diego, California, supporting individuals through ocean-based experiences that foster resilience, connection, confidence, and growth. Witnessing the ways people transform when given the opportunity to engage with themselves, others, and the natural environment continues to shape my approach to both therapy and community building.
Before becoming a therapist, I spent much of my professional career leading groups in outdoor spaces. I worked as a kayak and paddleboard instructor, received wilderness and outdoor leadership training, and facilitated experiences that helped people build confidence, connection, and a sense of adventure. I have also partnered with organizations such as SheJumps, REI, and Outdoor Research in creating opportunities for women and girls to access outdoor experiences, develop community, and cultivate belonging in nature.
Whether on the water, in the mountains, or in the therapy room, my work has always centered around creating spaces where people can feel supported, challenged, connected, and fully themselves. The Paddle & Connect gatherings are an extension of that passion—bringing together helping professionals and community members to step outside, build relationships, and experience the restorative power of being on the water together.
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Free of cost: All Shelterwood members are welcome!
Supervision Circle
With Andrew Fontana
This four-person closed group meets bi-weekly and is open until filled.
Andrew approaches supervision as a space for developing clinical voice and judgment, supporting associate clinicians in becoming more fully themselves in the therapy room. His work is grounded in relational and psychoanalytic traditions, with particular attention to the unconscious, transference and countertransference, affect, and attachment. Andrew brings a thoughtful, steady presence to supervision, holding learning as a collaborative, intergenerational process rooted in reflection, ethical care, and deep respect for where each clinician is in their development.
Open to new members.
Supervision Group-
2nd and 4th Friday of each month, 10-11:30am, In person at Shelterwood Collective.
Contact andrew@andrewfontanatherapy.com to join
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Anyone can join. One hour of supervision may be counted for each session.
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I view supervision as a specific facet of the work that psychotherapy is concerned with — the growing of personhood; healing as an opening to an emerging self. Specifically, I view the work of a supervisor as supporting clinicians in developing and strengthening their connection to their own clinical voice – becoming themselves in the therapy room.
This means our supervision will seek to center what’s coming up for you in your clinical work and bring these experiences, your thoughts, feelings and responses, into dialogue with psychoanalytical theory, both as I understand it and as you understand it. Though I use psychoanalytic training my hope is to support you in deepening your connection to the modalities and theories that best allow you to show up as yourself in the room. And so, I will learn from you.
My area of focus as a practitioner and as a supervisor is working specifically with the unconscious through transference and countertransference, through dreams, and attention to affect. I find value in practicing to make the unconscious, conscious, by identifying patterns and parts of experience through the lenses of attachment theory and parts work (drawing on the language of IFS and British Object Relations). Safety and ethical concerns that arise in clinical work discussed in supervision will also include consultation of professional and legal resources.
I don’t believe we ever stop needing to ‘borrow’ from other clinicians, perspectives, postures and even individual phrases. This may be especially true at the beginning of this work. My hope is that even as you do the necessary learning from other clinicians and theory, there is also space for your young clinician to show up. This sense of you need not be any further along the path of training in this work than where you are. I believe learning to trust bringing into supervision what troubles you in sessions- fears, insecurities, delights-is central to making this work sustainable and life-giving.
The work of supervision is centered on developing your clinical voice and trusting your clinical judgement. It is not therapy and is not primarily centered on your own healing, though therapeutic healing may be an outcome of this work. I believe it is best practice for any clinician to have experienced a lengthy season of their own personal therapy. I have found my most important education in how to practice this vocation comes through my time as patient. -
$150/month
Supervision fees will be processed alongside your monthly membership fee on the 20th of each month via Plooto.
Supervision Circle
With Solomon Chan
This four-person closed group meets bi-weekly and is open until filled.
Solomon approaches supervision as a space for developing clinical voice and judgment, and supporting associate clinicians in becoming more fully themselves in the therapy room.
His work is grounded in interpersonal, narrative, cross-cultural, and psychoanalytic traditions, with particular attention to the unconscious, transference and countertransference, attachment and attunement, and culture. Solomon brings a thoughtful, steady presence to supervision, holding learning as a collaborative, intergenerational, and cross-cultural process rooted in reflection, ethical care, and deep respect for where each clinician is in their development.
Open to new members.
Supervision Group-
Every other Wednesday, 10-11:30am, In person at Shelterwood Collective or virtual.
Contact solomonchancounseling@gmail.com to join
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Anyone can join. One hour of supervision may be counted for each session.
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My goal is for your supervision to be a rewarding and positive experience, providing a level of support around your clinical development that enables you to build confidence as well as skills. My hope is that you will look forward to supervision as a positive and containing experience. As providing therapy to people can be emotionally and physically exhausting, overwhelming, and positively powerful; our aim will be to develop a containing environment within which you will feel comfortable to process your experience within your therapy with clients as well as your experience of BEING a therapist.
My belief is that a supervisor’s role is to support the supervisee in exploring all areas of professional development. This can include managing your business practice and ethical/legal requirements, transference around cases, the impact of clinical work on your personal life and family, exploring cultural norms and differences, and developing the capacity to sit with difficult emotions and reflect on all aspects of cases. Supervision will not be your psychotherapy, although we may feel there will be insights that we may personally benefit from, much like what often can happen as we sit with our clients - so we will endeavor to frame our process with mindful attention how it might serve the therapeutic work and ultimately our clients.
Sometimes it is helpful to process ways that your personal life or history are affected by and affecting your clinical work. The degree to which you share your personal life and history is entirely up to you. I encourage the process of exploring the connection between personal life and clinical work, however if either person in the supervisory relationship feels that the focus between personal and professional becomes unbalanced, either party may initiate exploring additional supports that may be recommended (I highly encourage your own engagement with consistent psychotherapy). In group supervision, we will benefit from a small community that can shed more light and perspective than is limited by a dyad, and so we can lean on group supervision as a collaborative process of sharpening and spurring each other on.
Just as with all relationships, the supervisory relationship is a growing and always-changing one. Please know that I am open to discussing our supervisory relationship at any point in time and value your feedback and reflections on the supervisory process. Ultimately, this relationship is to support your growth as a therapist and therefore it is very important that if you, at any time, do not feel that this is happening, please bring that to my attention.
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$150/month
Supervision fees will be processed alongside your monthly membership fee on the 20th of each month via Plooto.
Supervision Circle
With Shelley Green
This four-person closed group meets bi-weekly and is currently full.
Closed to new members.
Supervision Group-
Not open to new members
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Anyone can join. One hour of supervision may be counted for each session.
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Hello! My name is Shelley. I’ve been a part of Shelterwood for over 10 years and love teaching, facilitating, and supervising!
A little about me: I’ve been in private practice for thirteen years, and I’ve also worked in community mental health in outpatient, school-based, and long-term inpatient settings. My BSc was earned in England, majoring in Psychology, with a heavy focus on neuroscience and neurobiology of personality. My Master’s is in Systems Counseling from a local (now closed) program called LIOS, known for being experiential, experimental, and very focused on process/self as therapist/therapeutic relationship. My educational background is a pretty weird mix of hyper-research focused empiricism and funky old-school type therapy (my counseling degree was almost entirely earned sitting in a circle of chairs surrounding a tissue box), and that captures me pretty well!
My clinical perspective is very systems oriented, process oriented, and relationally oriented. As a supervisor my great interest is in supporting therapists in deepening their capacity for the “being with” – a skillset that I fear is decreasingly emphasized in contemporary accredited programs. I use humor, I find profanity irresistible, and I very much enjoy talking about therapy, but I do not take this work lightly.
I’m a deep believer in the importance of consultation. My own consult group has been meeting biweekly for the entire duration of the eleven years I’ve been in practice. We have all grown enormously as a result of the feedback and support we exchange, and I’m very excited for any opportunity to experiment with a similar container alongside other therapists. I look forward to the exchange of ideas, insights and support that lies ahead of us! And I look forward to the opportunity for us all to hold the wider community of clients in our minds and hearts, and give them a better quality of therapy through our shared thoughtfulness and exchange of feedback. Can’t wait!
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$150/month
Supervision fees will be processed alongside your monthly membership fee on the 20th of each month via Plooto.