Florida Mental Health Clinical Supervision

Dr. Hutchinson is an approved clinical supervisor in the State of Florida for Registered Mental Health Counselor Interns who are seeking their own license to practice counseling in Florida.

Qualifications:

As a professor, she has taught master’s and doctoral students in Counseling including courses such as practicum, internship, and Mental Health Disorders (DSM-5) and how to get licensed in New York, Washington D.C., Virginia, and Florida. Additionally, she has provided extensive supervision to mental health counselors at several universities including the University of Central Florida. She has also conducted numerous workshops on clinical supervision at national conferences in the field of counseling and for supervisors in mental health agencies. She has published academic papers on supervision theories in the field of counseling.

She provides individual, dyadic (2 students), or group supervision to registered interns seeking licensure in Florida. Her supervision theory includes a humanistic (person-centered) foundation and considers the developmental level of the supervisee (Please see Scope of Competence below for more information on her supervision theory, Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision). Additionally, her approach is process oriented and focuses on the holistic development of the supervisee. This includes aspects such as increasing self-awareness, teaching techniques, diagnosis, treatment, etc. She also offers clinical consultations to seasoned therapists.

If you are interested in receiving supervision or consultation either in person, via Skype, or by phone please call (239)841-5159, for more information or email info@drtracyhutchinson.com.

V. Supervisor’s Scope of Competence

Tracy S. Hutchinson, Ph.D., is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and instructor at the University of Central Florida. She received her Doctorate in Counselor Education at the University of Central Florida. She earned her Master’s Degree at the State University of New York at Brockport in Community Counseling. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Additionally, Tracy is a National Certified Counselor. She is a member of the American Counseling Association.

Dr. Hutchinson has training and experience in individual and group counseling with clients in ages ranging from adolescence through adulthood in a variety of therapeutic settings, such as community mental health clinics and partial hospitalization. Specifically, areas of expertise include mental illness (e.g., depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, etc.), crisis intervention and stabilization, adolescent and adult sex offenders, domestic violence offenders, and psychosocial assessment and treatment planning. She has led several interpersonal and psycho-educational groups including anger management, sex offender treatment, domestic violence offender treatment, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and crisis stabilization.

V. Scope of Competence:

Dr. Hutchinson approaches supervision from a collaborative, humanistic framework. The general areas that receive attention in supervision include the supervisee’s personal awareness, counseling skills, and professional behaviors. Supervisory roles assumed by her include teacher, evaluator, consultant, and counselor. She follows a developmental approach to supervision primarily using the teacher role with novice supervisees and consultation with more experienced supervisees. Audio and videotapes, live observation, Interpersonal Process Recall, and case report are all utilized in the supervision process. She encourages and promotes the reflective practitioner framework. Therefore, she works with supervisees to become aware of their thoughts and feelings that occur with respect to the counseling relationship and process. Facilitating this awareness, including attention to the motivation behind interventions, is an important aspect of her work, such as upholding ethical standards, ensuring client welfare, and promoting psychological growth across the supervisee lifespan.

**Please see Dr. Hutchinson Professional Disclosure and Counseling Supervision Contract for more information**