Licensed Professional Counselor -Associate (LPC-A) Supervision

The journey to becoming a clinical mental health counselor can be very difficult. Figuring out the paperwork to submit to the board can be a struggle. Finding a site to complete your 3000 hours can also be challenging. Choosing your supervisor is an important process because this individual signs off on your hours; they are a mentor, a sounding board, a teacher, and a major support to you during this next chapter on your journey to becoming fully licensed.

Xiomara A. Sosa is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor-Candidate (LPCS-C) in South Carolina (SC). She has years of experience in health and human services and offers clinical supervision to licensed professional counselor associates (LPC-A) in SC. She offers group supervision, individual supervision, individual virtual supervision, and triadic (dyad) supervision.

Xiomara, Clinical Mental Health Counselor, is Summerville Women's Mental Health Services’ Owner, Founder, CEO, and Clinical Director. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of The X-Studio: A Mental Health Cooperative and is the Creator, Executive Producer, and Host of The X-Podcast: Real Conversations About Mental Health. 

Xiomara is a multicultural supervisor. A multicultural supervisor is a professional who helps supervisees become more aware of cultural differences and how they impact the supervisory relationship. The goal is to improve the quality of care for people from diverse backgrounds. 

A multicultural supervisor actively acknowledges and addresses the impact of cultural differences within a supervisory relationship, ensuring that the supervision process is sensitive to diverse backgrounds, identities, and experiences of their supervisees, aiming to promote cultural competency and effective communication across various cultural contexts. 

As a multicultural supervisor, her responsibilities are to:

• Create a safe space: Encourage supervisees to share their experiences and values.

• Promote cultural understanding: Use models and interventions to help supervisees communicate effectively across cultures.

• Consider cultural needs: Incorporate cultural, linguistic, and resettlement needs into care plans

• Use culturally relevant techniques: Use therapeutic techniques that are appropriate for the client's culture

• Be ethical: Ensure fairness, respect, and equity in the supervisory relationship

Her multicultural supervision principles are to:

• Acknowledging the impact of culture on the supervisory relationship

• Promote self-awareness, knowledge, and skills related to culture

• Increase awareness of cultural differences between the supervisor and supervise

Xiomara's private practice provides inclusive, multicultural, and culturally competent mental health services for all women: cisgender, transgender, intersex, non-binary, and woman/feminine identified.  She welcomes and serves all ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious communities. Xiomara helps clients heal from anxiety, depression, dysphoria, and trauma/stressors, teaching them coping skills and healthy thinking to promote their healing and improve their well-being. Her specializations are integrative mental health (IMH), multicultural counseling/therapy, and women’s mental health.

Her specialty areas and issues are specific to all the communities she serves. She is uniquely qualified and culturally sensitive to work with the veteran community, the Latino/Hispanic/Latinx community, and the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Xiomara is bilingual (English/Spanish), a military veteran, and LGBTQIA2S+ with lived experience. She serves all of South Carolina with both in-office and telehealth appointments.

If you are an LPC-A in search of clinical supervision, please get in touch with us below for a consultation, and let’s see if we are a good match. We wish you the best in your search and your counseling journey!

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