the work isn't fixing the case.
it's changing how you see it.
a small supervision group for marriage & family therapist candidates in Colorado — co-led by two systemic therapists who'll help you find your own footing in the room, not borrow ours.
the space between
a slower kind
of supervision
Most supervision hands you the answer to a hard moment — what to say, what to try on Tuesday. Useful. Also a little like being handed a fish.
We're after something that lasts longer than the week: the shift where you stop reaching for the right technique and start trusting what you already notice. The systemic tradition we work from has always cared less about fixing people than about changing the patterns people live inside. That's the work here.
first-order change rearranges the furniture. second-order change moves you to a different house.
This group is built for the latter — for the moment a case stops being a problem to solve and becomes a system to grasp. Effective supervision helps you gently connect with how your own experiences influence the work and use this insight intentionally.
shaped by our mentors,
more than any model
We were shaped most of all by two of our mentors — Drs. Lindsay Edwards and H. Luis Vargas, who taught us at Regis and helped us grow as clinicians and humans. Behind them stands a notable influence from the late systemic leaders Virginia Satir and Michael White. We work in close kinship; it's part of why we are excited to lead this group together and continue nurturing a community of systemically guided clinicians.
narrative & experiential
Tends toward the stories and unspoken rules a family is living inside, and the second-order shift that opens a different one — with an eye for where the therapist has quietly joined the pattern.
emotionally focused & attachment
Tends toward the bond itself — the attachment currents running under a couple's conflict, and what has to feel safe in the room before anything new can move.
two clinicians, one lineage — and more than one way to see what you bring.
what two hours holds
Not a lecture, and not a case-of-the-week conveyor belt. A small group that stays the same all six months, so trust has somewhere to grow.
You bring the moment that's sticking to you. We slow it down together and look at the whole system around it — not just the client in the chair.
- a case you're carrying, looked at as a system — not a single person to fix
- the part you can't quite see: where you've joined the pattern you're treating
- language for what you're already doing well, so you can do it on purpose
- two seasoned lenses on the same moment, and permission to find your own
- the same faces every month — a circle, not a waiting room
once a month, september through february
each session runs 9:00–11:00 am, online — the same morning window every month
the shape of it
One closed circle of up to six MFT candidates, meeting six times. We ask you to commit to all six — trust needs the same faces to grow, and the work compounds month over month.
the circle is small on purpose.
what you'll bring to the circle
This group runs alongside your individual supervision — it isn't a replacement for it. If you don't have a primary supervisor yet, ask us; either of us may be able to fill that role for you separately.
You'll have — or be pursuing, concurrently with the group — grounding in a recognized suicide-prevention framework. We prefer CAMS, the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality.
mft candidates who want more than a checklist
If you're gathering hours toward licensure and you want to become the kind of therapist you'd send your own people to — not just one who survives the week — you'll feel at home here. Especially if you're drawn to systemic, narrative, experiential, or emotionally focused work, and you'd rather build something new than restore what was.
tell us where you are
A note about where you are in your candidacy and the kind of work that pulls you is plenty. We'll take it from there.