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Before your next session
Take a few minutes to notice what matters most and what support you want to ask for.
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reflective practice.
Make room for thoughtful questions, clearer conversations, and sustainable growth. Explore practical tools and Canadian professional resources for supervisors and supervisees.
01 / Prepare & connect
Bring intention to supervision.
Use these original checklists as starting points for reflection and collaborative discussion.
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Supervision agreement conversation
Use these discussion points when beginning or reviewing a supervisory relationship.
Checkmarks are temporary and reset when the page reloads. These tools are educational discussion aids; consult your regulator or association for the requirements that apply to your practice.
02 / Pause & reflect
Questions that deepen the work.
Choose one or two prompts to bring to your next session, reflective journal, or supervision-of-supervision conversation.
Power, identity & context
- Whose perspective is most visible in this conversation? Whose might be missing?
- What assumptions am I making about the client, supervisee, or myself?
- How might culture, disability, race, gender, sexuality, class, or other social locations shape this work?
- What institutional or systemic barriers are influencing the choices available?
Safety & the supervisory relationship
- What helps me feel able to name uncertainty or a mistake?
- How can we invite disagreement and repair ruptures in the supervision relationship?
- What pace and level of challenge support learning right now?
- Where can we make expectations, consent, and power more explicit?
Reflective clinical practice
- What am I noticing in my body and emotions when I think about this work?
- How might my own experiences be shaping my understanding?
- What alternative explanation or clinical perspective could I consider?
- What would thoughtful feedback help me see more clearly?
Resilience & sustainability
- What is replenishing my capacity, and what is depleting it?
- Where do workload or organizational conditions need attention?
- What boundary, support, or practical change would help this week?
- What is one realistic next step that honours both care and accountability?
03 / Canadian professional resources
Go directly to the source.
Explore supervision information, ethics resources, and professional guidance from Canadian regulators and associations.
CRPO
Clinical supervision information
Find Ontario supervision information and links to requirements, guides, and clinical hours resources.
Visit CRPO resource ↗CRPO
Supervision guide & learning module
Access CRPO’s clinical supervision guide and online learning module.
Visit CRPO resource ↗CRPO
Supervisor self-assessment
Visit CRPO’s own tool for assessing eligibility to provide supervision for registration purposes.
Visit CRPO resource ↗CCPA
Clinical supervision resources
Explore the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association’s supervision resource collection.
Visit CCPA resource ↗CCPA
Ethics & standards
Visit CCPA for its Code of Ethics, Standards of Practice, and professional ethics resources.
Visit CCPA resource ↗BCACC
Find a clinical supervisor
Explore the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors’ clinical supervisor directory.
Visit BCACC resource ↗Resource links reviewed October 9, 2026. These resources are maintained by their respective organizations. Refer to the source for current requirements.
Keep learning
Put reflection into practice.
Explore the foundational and follow-up courses, or connect with Pauline O’Brien, RP, CCC-S about clinical supervision.