Becoming a therapist involves more than completing graduate school, collecting clinical hours, and checking boxes toward licensure.
Clinical supervision at Kula is designed to help Georgia Associate Professional Counselors develop the clinical judgment, self-awareness, competence, and professional identity needed to grow into thoughtful, confident clinicians.
Virtual individual and group supervision is currently provided by Amber Amick, LPC, NCC, CPCS.
Good supervision should do more than review cases or document that required hours were completed. It should create space to slow the work down, think critically, ask difficult questions, strengthen clinical skills, recognize your own responses, and develop confidence in the decisions you make with clients.
Competence includes what you know, what you notice, how you make decisions, and how you show up in the therapeutic relationship.
Strengthen case conceptualization, assessment, treatment planning, interventions, documentation, ethics, and your ability to understand why you're choosing a particular clinical direction.
Explore countertransference, nervous-system responses, boundaries, uncertainty, clinician capacity, and the ways the therapist as a person enters the therapeutic relationship.
Develop your own therapeutic voice, values, interests, specialties, professional identity, and confidence while increasing your ability to practice independently.
A trauma modality can be a valuable tool. But becoming a trauma-informed clinician requires something broader.
It involves understanding the person, the relationship, the nervous system, the context, and your own capacity as the clinician doing the work.
Emotional, relational, cultural, and physical safety.
Knowing when to move toward something — and when not to.
Recognizing activation, shutdown, regulation, and capacity.
Understanding attachment, rupture, repair, and trust.
Creating therapeutic relationships that are caring, ethical, and sustainable.
Recognizing how your own nervous system can affect the work.
Seeing a whole person rather than reducing someone to symptoms.
Knowing when to intervene, consult, learn more, or refer.
Some weeks supervision may revolve around a particular client. Other weeks, the most important clinical work may be understanding what is happening in you as the therapist.
Understanding the whole clinical picture rather than simply choosing the next intervention.
Developing greater confidence connecting assessment, goals, interventions, and client needs.
Thinking through clinical gray areas, boundaries, documentation, risk, and ethical decision-making.
Recognizing your own emotional reactions, patterns, assumptions, and nervous-system responses.
Understanding when, why, and how an intervention fits rather than simply collecting techniques.
Developing your voice, interests, strengths, areas of specialization, and confidence as a clinician.
Exploring sustainability, boundaries, burnout, workload, and what you need to keep doing this work well.
Including the completely acceptable: “I honestly don't know what to do with this client.”
Inside Kula Wellness Group, we're developing a comprehensive clinician-development program focused on helping therapists grow into competent, trauma-informed clinicians.
The Kula Development Program is being built for clinicians working within Kula and brings together structured learning, reflection, professional development, clinical growth, and trauma-informed education.
While the full Development Program is an internal Kula offering, the frameworks, resources, educational philosophy, and competency-focused approach being developed through that program also inform Amber's supervision.
External supervisees therefore benefit from a supervisory approach shaped by the same question guiding clinician development at Kula:
What does this clinician need to understand, practice, and experience in order to become increasingly competent?
Amber currently offers both individual and group supervision virtually for Georgia APCs working toward LPC licensure.
Dedicated supervision focused on your caseload, clinical decision-making, professional development, ethical questions, growing edges, and individual needs.
A collaborative environment where developing clinicians can learn from multiple cases, perspectives, questions, challenges, and areas of emerging expertise.
Current availability, scheduling options, structure, and fees are discussed before a supervision relationship is established.
Supervision at Kula may be a good fit if you want your supervision experience to actively contribute to the therapist you're becoming.
Amber is a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor, Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor, and co-owner of Kula Wellness Group.
Her supervision approach integrates clinical development with attention to the therapist as a person — including nervous-system awareness, professional identity, ethical decision-making, boundaries, clinical confidence, competence, and sustainable practice.
Amber's role is not to teach supervisees to practice exactly as she would.
The goal is to help developing clinicians build the knowledge, awareness, judgment, and confidence necessary to understand how they practice — and why.
Requesting information does not commit you to supervision. It starts a conversation.
Tell us a little about where you are in your APC and licensure journey.
Amber will email you a supervision application and a sample supervision agreement to review — not sign.
If it looks like there may be a good match, you'll connect to discuss goals, expectations, availability, and questions.
A supervision relationship begins only after mutual agreement and completion of the appropriate supervision documentation.
Supervision at Kula is currently focused on Georgia APCs working toward LPC licensure. Beginning in 2027, Kula plans to offer individual clinical consultation and consultation groups for independently licensed clinicians who want continued support, collaboration, and professional growth.
Consultation may include complex case discussion, trauma-informed perspectives, clinical development, specialty growth, and collaborative thinking with other experienced clinicians.
Ask About 2027 Consultation →No. Amber is currently accepting a limited number of external Georgia APCs seeking supervision toward LPC licensure.
Yes. External individual and group supervision is currently offered virtually.
Yes. Amber offers both individual and group supervision. Available options and scheduling will be discussed before establishing the supervision relationship.
The full Kula Development Program is being developed for clinicians employed by Kula Wellness Group. However, the educational frameworks, resources, competency-focused philosophy, and trauma-informed approach being developed through that program also inform Amber's supervision.
External supervision pricing is currently being finalized. Current fees and available options will be shared before you decide whether to establish a supervision relationship.
No. Requesting information, completing an application, reviewing a sample agreement, or participating in an initial conversation does not establish a supervision relationship. Supervision begins only after mutual agreement and completion of the appropriate documentation.
Supervision at Kula is currently designed for Georgia APCs working toward LPC licensure. Individual clinical consultation and consultation groups for licensed clinicians are planned for 2027.
If you're a Georgia APC looking for supervision centered around competence, curiosity, self-awareness, trauma-informed practice, and the development of your own clinical identity, we'd like to learn more about you.
Complete this brief form and Amber will follow up with information about current availability, a supervision application, and a sample supervision agreement for you to review before deciding whether you'd like to move forward.