Your Supervision Practice Has Evolved. Has Your Agreement?
A framework for your supervision agreement that needs an update
There’s a version of you that has a supervision agreement in a folder somewhere.
You put it together when you first started offering supervision. Maybe you used a template. Maybe you wrote it yourself.
Either way, you haven’t looked at it in a while.
I went back to mine recently, after a peer supervision conversation that stayed with me. That conversation was specifically about clinical continuity, and I wrote about it the other week if you missed it.
But that conversation did something else. It made me look at the whole agreement. Not just the missing clause — everything.
And what I found, in my own contract and in conversations with other supervisors, is that most of us are working from something that made sense when we wrote it, but hasn’t kept pace with the work.
The supervision relationship carries a level of professional responsibility that most agreements aren’t written to hold. For the supervisee’s development. For the clients they’re holding. For what happens if something goes wrong.
The gap between having an agreement and having one that’s actually fit for purpose is wider than most of us would like to admit.
Paid members get the full ten-section framework below, plus the updated supervision contract template landing later this week, ready to copy, adapt, and use straight away.
