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This webinar satisfies requirements for live interactive CE credits for all professions.
DESCRIPTION: Introduction to Attachment-Based Supervision: Clinical supervision is both an educational and relational process shaped by trust, vulnerability, power, and attachment. This continuing education webinar introduces Attachment-Based Supervision and examines how attachment dynamics influence supervisees’ responses to feedback, evaluation, uncertainty, clinical risk, and professional development. Participants will explore the supervisor’s role as a secure base, including how to provide emotional safety, reflective support, appropriate challenge, accountability, and professional boundaries without becoming overprotective. The webinar will also examine how secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized attachment patterns may present within supervision.
Attention will be given to supervisors’ attachment styles, countertransference responses, and the ways their own relational patterns may affect communication, conflict, emotional availability, and supervisory decision-making. Participants will learn to understand feedback as an attachment event that may activate fears of failure, rejection, criticism, or loss of professional belonging. The presentation will offer attachment-informed principles for delivering clear and developmentally appropriate feedback, identifying supervisory ruptures, and facilitating repair. Participants will leave with practical strategies for creating supervision that is psychologically safe, appropriately challenging, ethically grounded, and supportive of lasting professional growth.
Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals
Content level: Introductory/Intermediate
Dr. Alex Rowell is a practicing clinical psychologist in the states of California, Oregon, Illinois, and the United Kingdom. He has a wide range of clinical experiences that include working in various inpatient/outpatient hospitals, non-profit organizations, multiple college-counseling centers, NHS, in the UK and currently works virtually in private practice. His areas of interests include clinical supervision/supervising, mood disorders, self-compassion, teaching, mindfulness, burnout, and gender awareness and education.
Dr Rowell has presented on peripartum mental health, multicultural awareness, clinical supervision, and personality disorders at various national and international conferences. He practices mainly from a Humanistic, Psychodynamic, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy orientation, and is RAPPS (Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors) certified through the BPS (British Psychological Association).
After attending this webinar, participants will be able to
Webinar interaction & system requirements
This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led polls.
To be eligible for Live CE credits, you must be logged in the entire time. Entry to the webinar will be closed 5 minutes after the scheduled start time.
This webinar will be hosted through Zoom. Upon registration, participants will be emailed a link directly from Zoom. Additionally, the link will be available in your Zur Institute account, which you can use or you simply log into your Zur account and enter the webinar from the My Webinars section of your account.
The webinar will open 10 minutes prior to start time. It is recommended that you join early to give yourself time to troubleshoot potential connection problems.
Fee $69
Tokens may not be used with webinars.
Course completion & CE info
Live CEs will be available for all professions. Distance Learning Board Approvals
CE credits for all professions will be provided by Zur Institute.
Zur Institute has been approved to provide Live CE credits by the following boards:
Zur Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Zur Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Zur Institute is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing (CA BRN) to offer CE credits to nurses (Provider #CEP 14826). Registered Nurses in states other than California may be able to take courses offered by Zur Institute Verify with your State Board and/or Professional organization.
Zur Institute is an approved provider by the California Board of Vocational Nurses (CA BVNPT) to offer CE credits to Licensed Vocational Nurses (Provider #V-10846). Licensed Vocational Nurses in states other than California may be able to take courses offered by Zur Institute Verify with your State Board and/or Professional organization.
Zur Institute is an approved provider by The California Board of Vocational Nurses and Psychiatric Technicians (CA BVNPT) to offer CE credits to Psychiatric Technicians (Provider #V-10797). Psych Techs in states other than California may be able to take courses offered by Zur Institute Verify with your State Board and/or Professional organization.
Zur Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7144. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Zur Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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