Course Overview
The century-old psychodynamic supervision tradition produced the concepts every modern clinical supervisor uses, knowingly or not: the supervisory alliance, parallel process, countertransference as data, and rupture-and-repair. This course teaches that tradition as deliberate working method — usable by supervisors of any theoretical orientation — for California-licensed clinical supervisors and pre-licensed associates preparing for supervisory roles.
What this course covers:
- The supervisory alliance at full resolution: transferential bond, negotiated goals, contracted tasks, and the scheduled alliance audit
- The disclosure economy: the five costs supervisees weigh before speaking, shame vs. guilt, six defenses, and six cost-lowering practices
- Parallel process at full resolution: the three-gear mechanism, the downward direction, and the five-step protocol with its four-hypothesis differential
- Countertransference supervision: the evoked/imported taxonomy, a six-step working protocol, and the supervisor's own countertransference as a "second instrument"
- The relationship under load: withdrawal and confrontation ruptures and the four-movement repair
- Power and evaluation held dynamically, and supervision endings worked as the tradition's final teaching
- Two extended practice cases integrating the tradition with developmental, matrix, and structured supervision approaches
- Ethics, documentation, and the practitioner's own path — including personal therapy and supervision-of-supervision
- The opening hours: the supervision contract as the first interpretation, first-hour choreography, baselines, transfers and fit
- The wider frame: group supervision economics and roles, the agency triangle, supervision across difference, and telehealth compensations
- Evaluation and gatekeeping: no-surprises evaluation, dignified remediation, documentation and the California frame, and the gate operated with consultation
Participants leave with concrete alliance-building, disclosure, and rupture-repair language they can use in their very next supervision hour.
Blossom Wellness Counseling maintains responsibility for this program/course and their content.
Instructor: Jeanne Prinzivalli
Jeanne Prinzivalli - LMFT (License #52833) — Clinical Director & Director of Continuing Education, Blossom Wellness Learning
Jeanne Prinzivalli, LMFT, is the Clinical Director and Director of Continuing Education at Blossom Wellness Learning in Los Angeles, where she has maintained a private practice serving adults since 2013. She holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology (MFT track) from Antioch University Los Angeles. Her clinical experience spans community mental health, telehealth (Talkspace), forensic and parole-population work, trauma-focused outpatient care, and domestic-violence intervention.
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Educational Goals
- Establish the supervisory relationship as a deliberate instrument: alliance built, audited, and repaired on purpose.
- Train the disclosure economics that determine what supervision actually gets to work with.
- Teach parallel process and countertransference supervision at full protocol depth, with honest differentials and firm boundaries.
- Install the supervisor’s self-calibration practices: the second instrument, supervision-of-supervision, and the practitioner’s own work.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Build and audit the supervisory alliance across bond, goals, and tasks, including scheduled instrument-check conversations.
- Analyze supervisee nondisclosure through the five-cost ledger and apply the six cost-lowering practices.
- Apply the five-step parallel-process protocol, including the four-hypothesis differential and specificity test.
- Conduct countertransference supervision using the evoked/imported taxonomy and six-step protocol, maintaining the therapy boundary.
- Detect withdrawal and confrontation ruptures and implement the four-movement repair, including surviving accurate criticism non-defensively.
- Work supervision endings developmentally and maintain supervisor self-calibration through supervision-of-supervision.
- Contract and open a supervision deliberately — logistics, tape norm, demystified evaluation, the relationship clause, and limits — including group, agency, telehealth, and cross-difference frames.
- Evaluate, remediate, document, and gatekeep psychodynamically: no-surprises evaluation, dignified remediation plans, audit-ready documentation, and the gate operated with consultation.
