Objectives
1. Identify the ethical and legal responsibilities of clinical supervisors under Texas BHEC rules, including documentation, evaluation, gatekeeping, and responsibility for client welfare.
2. Differentiate supervisory roles (educator, evaluator, consultant, and gatekeeper) and apply appropriate boundaries to reduce role confusion and ethical risk in contemporary supervision relationships.
3. Apply developmentally attuned supervision strategies to support early-career clinicians, including newer generations of supervisees, while maintaining accountability and professional standards.
4. Demonstrate culturally responsive supervision practices that incorporate cultural humility, awareness of generational context, and consideration of identity, power, and systemic factors in supervisee development and evaluation.
5. Utilize effective feedback and evaluation methods that promote supervisee growth, manage emotional reactivity, and support competency-based assessment.
6. Implement best practices for supervision documentation, including informed consent, performance concerns, corrective feedback, and remediation planning.
7. Recognize supervision scenarios that require consultation, remediation, or gatekeeping action and identify appropriate next steps to protect clients, supervisees, and the supervisor’s license.
More About Emma
Emma J. Taylor, LCSW-S, is a licensed clinical social worker, educator, clinician and clinical supervisor with over a decade of experience across mental health, higher education, and clinical supervision. Her clinical background includes work in outpatient therapy, crisis and high-risk settings, and interdisciplinary environments serving children, adolescents, adults, and families, with particular expertise in co-occurring mental and physical health diagnoses, high-risk abuse and neglect settings, differential diagnosis, and trauma-informed care. She currently serves as Associate Director of Practicum Education and Lecturer in Baylor University’s Diana R. Garland School of Social Work Online MSW program, where she teaches across the curriculum and focuses on practice-ready clinical skill development, professional identity formation, and applied ethics. In addition to her academic role, Emma provides clinical supervision and consultation to LMSW supervisees and practicing clinicians through Taylor Clinical Services. She also designs and delivers continuing education trainings for social workers and therapists nationwide. Her work is grounded in reflective practice, clinical integrity, and a strong commitment to developing confident, competent professionals. Emma lives in Greenville, South Carolina with her family.