40-Hour Texas LPC Supervisor Training
Cultivating Ethical, Skilled, and Confident Clinical Leaders
Take the next meaningful step in your professional journey. This comprehensive 40-hour training is designed for Texas Licensed Professional Counselors who want to develop the knowledge, confidence, and practical supervisory skills required to guide the next generation of counseling professionals.
Through an engaging, supportive learning experience, you will strengthen your ability to supervise with clarity, ethics, cultural responsiveness, and clinical integrity—while meeting the educational requirements for Texas LPC Supervisor status.
Who should take this training?
Is This Training Right for You?
This training is designed for Texas Licensed Professional Counselors who are ready to expand their professional role and pursue designation as an LPC Supervisor.
It is an excellent fit for LPCs who want to:
• Prepare to supervise LPC Associates in Texas.
• Strengthen their understanding of ethical, legal, and clinical supervisory responsibilities.
• Develop a confident, organized, and supportive supervision style.
• Learn practical approaches for evaluating clinical readiness, supporting professional identity development, and addressing challenges in supervision.
• Deepen their ability to mentor emerging counselors with compassion, accountability, and cultural humility.
• Meet the 40-hour education component required for Texas LPC Supervisor eligibility.
Texas LPC Associates complete supervised experience toward independent licensure, and BHEC materials describe the supervised-experience requirement as at least 18 months and 3,000 hours, including at least 1,500 hours of direct counseling experience. Effective supervisors play an essential role in protecting clients while supporting associates’ clinical development.
Learning Objectives for Experienced Texas LPCs
You have built the clinical experience. Now you are ready to lead.
This training supports Licensed Professional Counselors who want to become skilled, ethical, and confident supervisors—equipped to mentor LPC Associates and help shape the future of the counseling profession.
By the end of this 40-hour training, participants will be able to:
1. Define clinical supervision and distinguish it from therapy, consultation, mentoring, teaching, management, and peer support.
2. Apply major supervision models to real supervisory relationships and clinical cases.
3. Identify the developmental needs of LPC-Associates and tailor supervisory interventions to their level of competence, confidence, and clinical judgment.
4. Use the core supervisory roles of teacher, counselor, and consultant appropriately and ethically.
5. Structure individual and group supervision using effective supervisory methods, including case presentation, live observation, audio/video review, process notes, role play, and reflective practice.
6. Establish and maintain a clear supervisory relationship through informed consent, expectations, boundaries, contracts, feedback, and evaluation.
7. Integrate multicultural humility, awareness of power dynamics, and attention to racial, ethnic, gender, identity, and cultural variables in supervision.
8. Apply Texas LPC rules, ethical codes, legal principles, and standards of practice to common supervisory situations.
9. Evaluate supervisee competence, identify impairment or performance concerns, deliver corrective feedback, and develop appropriate remediation plans.
10. Create a practical supervision infrastructure, including supervision agreements, documentation systems, record-retention practices, scheduling practices, and reporting procedures.
11. Respond effectively to ethical dilemmas, client-risk concerns, boundary issues, documentation problems, and supervisee conduct concerns.
12. Develop a personal supervision philosophy and a sustainable plan for beginning an LPC supervision practice.
Compliance Seekers
Meet the Requirements—And Become the Supervisor Associates Need
Ethical. Informed. Prepared.
This training is designed to help eligible Texas LPCs meet the 40-hour education requirement for LPC Supervisor status while building the real-world skills needed for ethical, supportive, and effective supervision.
You will learn how to apply Texas LPC rules, navigate supervisory responsibilities, provide meaningful feedback, and create a structure that supports both associate development and client welfare.
Texas content alignment
This course is structured to address the required content areas for Texas 40-clock-hour LPC Supervisor Training under 22 TAC §681.147. The rule specifies instruction in supervision concepts and models; the supervisory relationship and counselor development; supervision methods and techniques; standards of practice, ethics, legal, and professional issues; and executive/administrative tasks.
Develop the Next Generation of Counselors
Your Experience Can Become Someone Else’s Foundation
The guidance you provide as a supervisor can shape a developing counselor’s confidence, clinical judgment, and professional identity for years to come.
This training equips you to offer meaningful, ethical, and structured supervision—so you can support LPC Associates as they learn, grow, and become the compassionate professionals their future clients need.
A Commitment to Ethical, Skillful Supervision
Quality supervision protects clients, supports developing counselors, and strengthens the future of the counseling profession. This training is designed to help you build the knowledge, structure, and confidence needed to supervise with integrity.
You will learn practical, ethically grounded approaches for supporting LPC Associates, addressing challenging situations, providing meaningful feedback, and maintaining clear professional standards. The goal is not simply to complete a training requirement—it is to help you become the thoughtful, prepared supervisor your associates and their clients deserve.
What You Will Learn
This 40-hour training gives you a practical foundation for becoming an ethical, effective, and confident LPC Supervisor. You will learn how to create a supervision experience that promotes associate development while keeping client welfare at the center.
By the end of the training, you will be better prepared to:
• Understand the role, responsibilities, and professional expectations of a Texas LPC Supervisor.
• Apply current Texas LPC rules, ethical standards, and supervisory requirements to real-world situations.
• Establish clear supervision agreements, expectations, documentation practices, and boundaries.
• Build productive supervisory relationships that balance support, accountability, and professional growth.
• Evaluate associate development, clinical readiness, and areas needing further attention.
• Provide feedback that is respectful, direct, growth-oriented, and clinically useful.
• Guide associates through case conceptualization, ethical dilemmas, risk concerns, and difficult clinical situations.
• Respond appropriately when concerns arise related to competence, impairment, boundaries, or client safety.
• Develop a personal philosophy and practical structure for ethical, culturally responsive supervision.
Texas describes LPC Associate supervised experience as a minimum of 18 months and 3,000 hours, including 1,500 hours of direct counseling experience, which makes clear and competent supervision especially important for both associate development and client protection.
Why Choose This Training?
You will receive training that is:
• Practical: Focused on situations supervisors actually face, not theory alone.
• Ethically grounded: Centered on professional responsibility, sound judgment, and client welfare.
• Relationship-centered: Designed to help you build supervisory relationships that are both supportive and accountable.
• Texas-focused: Grounded in the current expectations of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council and Texas LPC Board.
• Growth-oriented: Created to help you develop confidence in your own supervisory voice, structure, and leadership style.
Included participant resources
Participants receive practical materials designed to support immediate implementation, such as:
• Texas LPC-S readiness checklist
• Supervisor application preparation checklist
• Supervision philosophy worksheet
• Supervision contract template
• Informed-consent language for supervision
• Supervision-plan template
• Individual supervision-session agenda
• Group supervision agenda
• Supervision-session documentation form
• Supervisee self-assessment
• Competency evaluation tool
• Feedback and performance-review template
• Remediation-plan template
• Ethical decision-making worksheet
• High-risk case consultation checklist
• Supervision termination checklist
• Record-keeping and administrative workflow checklist
• Sample policies for scheduling, cancellations, communication, and emergencies
Course curriculum
Module 1: Foundations of Clinical Supervision
4 clock hours
Participants begin with a clear understanding of what supervision is, why it matters, and how it differs from related professional relationships.
Topics include:
• Definitions and purposes of clinical supervision
• Functions of supervision: client welfare, counselor development, professional gatekeeping, and public protection
• Distinctions among supervision, therapy, consultation, mentoring, coaching, and administrative management
• Foundational supervision theories and models
• Psychotherapy-based supervision models
• Developmental supervision models
• Integrated and competency-based approaches
• Building a personal philosophy of supervision
• The ethical use of authority and influence
Learning activities:
• Supervision-role comparison exercise
• Reflection: “What kind of supervisor do I want to become?”
• Case discussion: When supervision begins to drift into therapy or management.
Module 2: The Supervisory Relationship and Counselor Development
4 clock hours
Effective supervision depends on a working alliance built on clarity, trust, accountability, feedback, and appropriate professional boundaries.
Topics include:
• Establishing the supervisory working alliance
• Power differentials and the supervisor’s ethical use of authority
• Counselor development across the professional lifespan
• Developmental needs of LPC-Associates
• Matching supervisory interventions to supervisee readiness
• Supervisor and supervisee expectations
• Trust, transparency, boundaries, and psychological safety
• Addressing conflict, resistance, anxiety, shame, and defensiveness
• Encouraging reflective capacity and professional identity development
• Preventing dependency and fostering supervisee autonomy
Learning activities:
• Supervisory-alliance self-assessment
• Developing a first-session supervision agenda
• Practice conversation: Addressing a struggling or defensive supervisee
Module 3: Supervision Methods and Techniques
14 clock hours
This module provides the practical skill base for conducting high-quality individual and group supervision.
Topics include:
• The supervisory roles of teacher, counselor, and consultant
• The focus areas of process, conceptualization, and personalization
• Individual supervision structure and session planning
• Group supervision models, benefits, limitations, and facilitation
• Case presentation methods
• Verbal case reports and written case summaries
• Process notes and reflective journaling
• Audio and video recording review
• Live supervision and observation
• Role play, modeling, and behavioral rehearsal
• Interpersonal process recall
• Skills-based feedback and competency development
• Using direct observation ethically and effectively
• Supervision of telehealth and technology-mediated counseling
• Supervising crisis work, high-risk cases, trauma presentations, and complex client needs
• Multicultural supervision and culturally responsive feedback
• Racial, ethnic, gender, identity, spiritual, disability, socioeconomic, and intersectional considerations
• Supervising clinical work across settings and populations
• Case consultation and collaborative decision-making
• Evaluation methods and competency-based supervision
Learning activities:
• Case-conceptualization practice
• Supervision-session role play
• Observation-and-feedback exercise
• Group supervision facilitation simulation
• Multicultural supervision case study
• Documentation review and corrective feedback practice
Module 4: Ethics, Texas Rules, Legal Issues, and Standards of Practice
14 clock hours
Supervisors carry heightened ethical and legal responsibilities. This module focuses on defensible decision-making, risk awareness, standards of practice, and the supervisor’s gatekeeping role.
Topics include:
• The supervisor’s responsibility to clients, supervisees, the profession, and the public
• Ethical decision-making models for supervision
• Ethical codes relevant to professional counseling and supervision
• Texas LPC statutes, rules, and standards of practice
• Applicable Texas requirements for LPC supervision
• Supervisor responsibilities and supervisee responsibilities
• Scope of practice and competence
• Delegation, accountability, and supervisory liability
• Confidentiality, informed consent, and privacy in supervision
• Documentation, records, and release-of-information issues
• Telehealth, electronic communication, and digital documentation
• Boundaries, dual relationships, conflicts of interest, and gifts
• Professional impairment, burnout, compassion fatigue, and fitness to practice
• Reporting obligations and professional conduct concerns
• Managing client safety: suicidality, violence risk, abuse or neglect, and emergency planning
• Responding to supervisee ethical violations or competency concerns
• Due process, fairness, and documentation in remediation
• Ethical termination of supervision
• Liability prevention and consultation practices
Learning activities:
• Ethics-and-law decision tree
• Texas-rule application exercises
• Documentation-risk case scenarios
• Remediation-plan workshop
• Supervisor response to a high-risk client case
• Case consultation: Impairment, boundaries, and competence concerns
Texas BHEC emphasizes that supervisors are responsible for ensuring Associates comply with legal and ethical obligations, maintaining session records, and promptly reporting conduct, competence, or ethics concerns as required.
Module 5: Executive and Administrative Tasks
4 clock hours
A strong supervision practice requires systems that support accountability, consistency, and legal defensibility.
Topics include:
• Designing a supervision practice
• Selecting appropriate supervisees
• Conducting an initial supervision interview
• Creating a supervision plan
• Developing a supervision contract
• Establishing fees, cancellation policies, availability, and emergency procedures
• Determining the time, frequency, and format of supervision
• Supervision-session documentation
• Record keeping and retention
• Administrative forms and workflow
• Required reporting and regulatory documentation
• Managing supervision transitions, pauses, and terminations
• Planning for coverage, absence, emergencies, and practice closure
• Marketing supervision ethically
• Building sustainable, values-aligned supervision services
Learning activities:
• Drafting a supervision agreement
• Designing a supervision-session note template
• Building a supervision workflow checklist
• Administrative systems and risk-management review
BHEC notes that supervisors must submit a Supervisory Agreement Form before supervision begins, provide at least four hours of supervision each month, keep accurate records, and ensure the appropriate supervised-experience documentation is submitted when supervision ends.
