Supervision Circles

At Shelterwood Collective, we believe that supervision is not only a requirement for licensure, but a vital relational practice — one that shapes how clinicians learn to think, feel, and work in the presence of others.

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.

Group supervision becomes more than oversight—it becomes a living classroom. Our circles support:

• Clinical case consultation and ethical decision-making

• Development of clinical voice, confidence, and discernment

• Exposure to multiple perspectives and therapeutic orientations

• Increased capacity to work with complexity, countertransference, and uncertainty

• A felt sense of belonging and professional companionship during the licensure process

These groups are intentionally structured to be relational, generative, and grounded—rather than evaluative or performative.

Meet Andrew

We are honored to partner with Andrew Fontana, a licensed psychotherapist, educator, and Washington State–approved clinical supervisor. 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.

Container

This Supervision Circle meets in person at Shelterwood Collective on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month from 10:00-11:30am. 

Each group is capped at four participants, with one hour of each meeting counting as direct supervision.

These groups are ideal for associates who are seeking:

• High-quality supervision within a small, consistent cohort

• A collaborative learning environment alongside peers

• Mentorship from experienced clinicians who value relational depth

• A supervision experience that supports both competence and humanity

Exchange

$150/month

Supervision fees will be processed alongside your monthly membership fee on the 20th of each month via Plooto.

Andrew Fontana

Psychotherapist & Clinical Supervisor

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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.

Learn more about Andrew