I am a Black, trauma-trained Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a clinical supervisor
for social workers in Virginia. Supervision is online, so you can work with me from Richmond, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Roanoke and Charlottesville, or from Southside and southwest Virginia.
I am a board-approved supervisor in Virginia.
Who I supervise
I work with pre-licensed social workers building toward independent licensure, and with licensed
clinicians who want consultation on cases outside their training.
My supervisees tend to be people carrying the hardest caseloads in their agencies — complex trauma
and PTSD, autistic and ADHD clients, developmental and intellectual disabilities, serious and
persistent mental illness, and clients living with poverty, rural isolation, or the ordinary
exhaustion of moving through systems that were not built for them.
Why Virginia
Virginia’s southwest and Southside are rural in a way the northern corridor is not, and the clinical workforce there is stretched thin. If you are practising in those counties, your caseload probably includes trauma, serious mental illness and poverty in combination, and your supervision options are probably limited to whoever is nearest rather than whoever fits.
How I supervise
Eleven years across schools, hospice, medical social work, crisis response and corrections taught me
not to flinch at hard things, and that is what I bring to supervision. You will not be handed a
reading list and told to reflect.
We work on real cases. Where you are stuck, what you are avoiding, what your gut is telling you that
you have not said out loud yet. I will tell you when I do not know something, and I will tell you
when I think you are wrong.
My practice is trauma-informed and neurodivergent-affirming. Masking is not a treatment goal for my
clients and it is not one for my supervisees either — you do not have to perform competence you do
not feel yet.
I am EMDR trained and EMDRIA certified. If you are working toward trauma competence, that is
something I can help you build.
What supervision covers
Case conceptualisation and treatment planning. Trauma-informed practice and EMDR-informed
stabilisation. Neurodiversity-affirming work without shame, masking or compliance as goals.
Working with serious mental illness. Documentation, ethics and risk. Culturally responsive practice.
Rural and telehealth practice. And the part nobody schedules — how to keep doing this work without
it hollowing you out.
Fees
Individual supervision — $100 per hour
Group supervision — $80 per person, per session
Groups run small. You will know everyone in the room.
Virginia board requirements
Virginia requires 3,000 supervised experience hours over two to four consecutive years and 100 supervision hours, including at least 1,380 direct-client-contact hours. Supervision must occur at one to four hours per 40 work hours, with no more than 50 supervision hours completed in groups. The supervision arrangement must be registered with the board before hours count, and the supervisor must satisfy Virginia’s approval requirements.
Getting started
Email krishana@mappingrt.com or book a consultation. We will talk about where you are in the
process, what your board requires, what you are working on, and whether we are a fit. There is no
charge for that conversation and no obligation.
Together, we map the way forward.