Supervision, consultation and training
Most therapists assemble this from four providers who have never met and who know nothing about each other's work with you: a supervisor for the hours, someone else for EMDR consultation, a vendor for the ethics requirement, and a retreat if there is time and money left. Here it is one relationship, and that changes what each part can do. All four are also trauma-informed, and not in the sense that the supervisor has read about trauma.
Why these belong together
NARM, Somatic Experiencing and IFS-informed EMDR frame all of it: the supervision hour, the consultation hour, the trail and the CEU. What you learn in one is usable in the next.
LPC supervision, and what it pulls in
Your 3,000 hours, four a month, online anywhere in Texas. It is the only one of the four with an end date, and while it runs the other three change: EMDR consultation costs nothing, the ethics hours come from the person already supervising you, and the annual retreat is included.
EMDR consultation, free while you are supervised
Charged by the hour on its own, and no charge for as long as you are an associate here, so hours toward EMDRIA certification accumulate alongside your 3,000 instead of after them. The consultant is the person who already knows your caseload, so no client has to be explained twice.
Ethics CEUs, filling the half that is hard to fill
Since 2024 half of your 24 CE hours must come from a provider listed in 22 TAC §681.140(f), and subsection (f)(6) is a licensee with supervisor status, which Reem holds. The subject is secondary trauma, which is the same ground supervision and the retreats work on, approached from the ethics side.
Retreats and training, for what outlasts the license
Supervision ends at licensure. Certification, ethics hours and your own depletion do not. The retreat is where the material is you rather than a client, and associates supervised here are already in it.
Equine-assisted supervision
Who tends to work well here
The associate who wants more than hours
You could get cheaper supervision. What you want is someone who will tell you what actually happened in that session, and help you build something after licensure.
The therapist whose EMDR keeps stalling
Preparation looks fine, then processing floods or flatlines. Usually that is a part of the client objecting, and it is workable once you can see it.
The clinician running on empty
Competent, respected, quietly depleted. You teach regulation skills you no longer practice. That is what the retreats are for.
The one drawn to body-based work
You have read about somatic approaches and want to practice inside one, with a supervisor who works that way every week rather than recommending it.
What the hour is actually like
What trauma-informed supervision means here
Not that the supervisor knows about trauma. That the hour treats your own nervous system as part of the clinical picture rather than as an interruption to it. Three things change when it does.
What you bring
The cases that need the hour are the ones where you felt stupid, frozen, irritated with the client, or bored, and those are exactly the ones left out when bringing them means admitting to a reaction. They get asked for first here.
What counts as data
Coming out of a session with your jaw tight and no memory of the last ten minutes is information about what happened in the room, not evidence you are bad at this. Your activation is often the clearest read available on a client who cannot yet say what is happening to them.
How fast the hour moves
Piling on technique when you are already overwhelmed is the thing we all tell clients not to do. Sometimes the useful hour is one piece of understanding and nothing else, and the rest waits.
Supervision from someone still in the room
Licensed in Texas since before most of her supervisees started graduate school, and carrying her own caseload every week. What follows is why therapists choose this over a cheaper hour.
10 years as a Texas supervisor
LPC-S since 2016, license 66562. Long enough to have seen most of what walks in, and to know the difference between a hard case and a stuck therapist.
Credentials, not a list of interests
NARM therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, EMDR certified and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. Trainings completed, not modalities mentioned.
Small by design
Supervision places are few and the therapy caseload stays small. Nobody here is one of thirty. Places are filled by application, with references and verification. That is the trade: less availability, more attention.
Honest feedback, offered kindly
If nothing you bring is ever questioned, you are paying for a signature. Expect to be asked what you were doing and why, and to be told when something in the work is yours rather than the client's.
At a glance
Reem Glasco, LPC-S, has been a Texas LPC supervisor since 2016. There are four ways to work with her professionally: LPC supervision for three individual hours and one group hour a month, EMDR consultation with an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, ethics CEUs on secondary trauma, and retreats and equine training for clinicians who want to develop their own presence. All of it runs online except the retreats, the in-person CEU and the horses.
| Service | Fee | Format |
|---|---|---|
| LPC supervision LPC Associates licensed in Texas | $425 a month, or $500 on a three-month agency contract | Three individual hours and one group hour each month, online |
| EMDR consultation Therapists trained in EMDR, working toward certification | $185 an hour, free for Reem's own associates | Individual, online, scheduled as needed |
| Ethics CEUs Texas LPCs and associates meeting their ethics requirement | Per offering | One CEU online, or two in person on a trail walk |
| Retreats and training Interns, associates and licensed therapists | Per offering; equine supervision sessions $60 each | In person in central Texas, annual retreat plus scheduled sessions |
The Texas licensure guide lays out every number on the path to LPC, the supervision rules associates get wrong, and what to ask a supervisor before you sign. Free, and no email required.
Questions therapists ask first
Are you accepting new LPC Associates?
Ask about current availability. Supervision is capped deliberately, so it is worth booking a consult before a spot opens rather than after.
Can I do EMDR consultation without being supervised by you?
Yes. Consultation is separate from supervision and open to any licensed therapist trained in EMDR, at $185 an hour online. LPC Associates under Reem's supervision get individual EMDR consults at no additional cost.
Do I have to be in Texas?
For LPC supervision, yes: the supervised experience requirement is set by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council and applies to Texas LPC Associates. EMDR consultation is a peer professional relationship rather than clinical care, so it is not limited to Texas, though you should check what your own board expects.
What is the first step?
A free thirty-minute consult by Zoom or phone. For supervision, applications then need a CV, three professional references, and answers to the seven questions listed on the supervision page.
How can I learn more?
The frequently asked questions page collects everything that is not specific to one service: fees and insurance, how the methods differ, complex PTSD, what Texas requires of a counselor, and how to start. If the answer is not there either, a free consult is the quickest way to get one.
Start with a conversation
Therapy consults are fifteen minutes. Supervision and EMDR consultation consults are thirty. Both are free and commit you to nothing.