Your Team Is Growing. Your Licensed Leaders Shouldn't Be Running on Empty.

Signs an agency needs this:

• Licensed clinicians spend more of their week supervising and signing notes than seeing clients or leading.
• Senior staff are tired, short-tempered or starting to leave.
• The agency would hire more trainees but has no one with time to supervise them.
• Notes sit unsigned and billing waits.
• Good ideas for staff development and new programs never get built.
• Newly licensed clinicians leave soon after they get their license.

The problem in one line: growth in front-line staff is eating the capacity of the licensed people who are supposed to lead.

What Clear Blue Sky Offers

• Clinical supervision toward licensure for clinicians on the LICSW track (Board of Social Work) and the LPCC track (Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy).
• Weekly individual supervision by telehealth, booked through an online portal with at least 10 time options each week, so supervisees can work around their own schedules.
• Weekly group supervision, one clinically focused hour at a set time.
• Note review, optional, with notes reviewed against the Minnesota Health Care Programs provider manual on three set days each week.
• Clinical training, 2.5 live hours each quarter, recorded for on-demand viewing and built around what shows up in notes and supervision. CEU documentation is handled, and the hours cover the clinical content portion of social work license renewal.
• Board paperwork, including supervision reports and verification forms.
• A monthly trend report for leadership: what is showing up in the trenches, which supervisees need support, and where training should go next.

Two ways to buy it:

Limited availability for clinicians paying for their own supervision. Ask about openings.

Why It Is Worth It

1. Your licensed leaders get their time back. Supervision, note review and training come off their plates. They can run the program, build the business, design what comes next or carry their own caseload.
2. Eyes in the trenches. A supervisor who reads the notes every week sees patterns early: a clinician who is struggling, a documentation habit that will fail an audit, a training need across the team. Leadership hears about it in a monthly trend report, before it becomes a crisis.
3. Supervision is already costing you. Every hour a licensed clinician spends supervising or signing notes is an hour they are not seeing clients. A full cohort takes 20 or more hours a week of someone's time. Those are billable hours you are already giving up.
4. Burnout is expensive. When a senior clinician burns out and leaves, you lose their caseload, their supervision of others, their knowledge of your clients and the cost of replacing them.
5. Keep the people you invested in. In many agencies, clinicians leave soon after they are licensed. The agency paid for two years of supervision, and the investment walks out the door. People stay where there is mentorship, a path forward and programs worth being part of. Those take leadership time to build, and that is the time this gives back.
6. Ideas off the shelf. Most agencies have a shelf of "that's a great idea, we should do that for our staff." They sit there because no one has the capacity to design and implement them.
7. Less than hiring. It costs less than recruiting and onboarding another licensed clinician to carry supervision, with no benefits, payroll taxes or paid time off.
8. Licensure done right. Supervision from someone with deep working knowledge of Minnesota's supervision statute, so supervisees' hours line up with what the boards require and their path to licensure doesn't stall.
9. Documentation that holds up. Notes reviewed against the Minnesota Health Care Programs provider manual, by someone who knows what auditors look for.
10. One supervisor, two licensure tracks. Social work and professional counseling trainees can be supervised in the same cohort.
11. Training that fits. Topics come from what is actually showing up in your clinicians' notes and supervision, not a generic CEU catalog.

About Katherine

Katherine Driskell, MSW, LICSW, has spent more than a decade leading clinical teams, from Mayo Clinic to a school-based mental health program serving districts across southeastern Minnesota. She knows what it looks like when a growing program outruns the people holding it together, because she has been one of them. Katherine serves on the Minnesota Board of Social Work and has worked on the supervision section of the Social Work Practice Act. Through Clear Blue Sky, she supervises clinicians toward both the LICSW and the LPCC, so agencies can grow their front line without burning out the licensed staff who lead it.

• Owner of Clear Blue Sky Therapy & Consulting.
• More than 10 years of clinical leadership, beginning at Mayo Clinic.
• Member of the Minnesota Board of Social Work.
• Served on the committee that reviewed the supervision section of the Social Work Practice Act and recommended changes to the statute.
• Approved to supervise toward the LICSW and the LPCC.

Signs an agency needs this:

• Licensed clinicians spend more of their week supervising and signing notes than seeing clients or leading.
• Senior staff are tired, short-tempered or starting to leave.
• The agency would hire more trainees but has no one with time to supervise them.
• Notes sit unsigned and billing waits.
• Good ideas for staff development and new programs never get built.
• Newly licensed clinicians leave soon after they get their license.

The problem in one line: growth in front-line staff is eating the capacity of the licensed people who are supposed to lead.

Small practices too: a practice with one or two trainees can't justify a supervisor of its own. An open cohort gives them a seat.

Location doesn't matter: everything runs by telehealth, so a rural clinic two hours from anyone gets the same supervisor as a metro practice.

What Clear Blue Sky offers

• Clinical supervision toward licensure for clinicians on the LICSW track (Board of Social Work) and the LPCC track (Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy).
• Weekly individual supervision by telehealth, booked through an online portal with at least 10 time options each week, so supervisees can work around their own schedules.
• Weekly group supervision, one clinically focused hour at a set time.
• Note review, optional, with notes reviewed against the Minnesota Health Care Programs provider manual on three set days each week.
• Clinical training, 2.5 live hours each quarter, recorded for on-demand viewing and built around what shows up in notes and supervision. CEU documentation is handled, and the hours cover the clinical content portion of social work license renewal.
• Board paperwork, including supervision reports and verification forms.
• A monthly trend report for leadership: what is showing up in the trenches, which supervisees need support, and where training should go next.

Two ways to buy it:

All for less than hiring and onboarding another licensed clinician.

Why it is worth it

1. Your licensed leaders get their time back. Supervision, note review and training come off their plates. They can run the program, build the business, design what comes next or carry their own caseload.
2. Eyes in the trenches. A supervisor who reads the notes every week sees patterns early: a clinician who is struggling, a documentation habit that will fail an audit, a training need across the team. Leadership hears about it in a monthly trend report, before it becomes a crisis.
3. Supervision is already costing you. Every hour a licensed clinician spends supervising or signing notes is an hour they are not seeing clients. A full cohort takes 20 or more hours a week of someone's time. Those are billable hours you are already giving up.
4. Burnout is expensive. When a senior clinician burns out and leaves, you lose their caseload, their supervision of others, their knowledge of your clients and the cost of replacing them.
5. Keep the people you invested in. In many agencies, clinicians leave soon after they are licensed. The agency paid for two years of supervision, and the investment walks out the door. People stay where there is mentorship, a path forward and programs worth being part of. Those take leadership time to build, and that is the time this gives back.
6. Ideas off the shelf. Most agencies have a shelf of "that's a great idea, we should do that for our staff." They sit there because no one has the capacity to design and implement them.
7. Less than hiring. It costs less than recruiting and onboarding another licensed clinician to carry supervision, with no benefits, payroll taxes or paid time off.
8. Licensure done right. Supervision from someone with deep working knowledge of Minnesota's supervision statute, so supervisees' hours line up with what the boards require and their path to licensure doesn't stall.
9. Documentation that holds up. Notes reviewed against the Minnesota Health Care Programs provider manual, by someone who knows what auditors look for.
10. One supervisor, two licensure tracks. Social work and professional counseling trainees can be supervised in the same cohort.
11. Training that fits. Topics come from what is actually showing up in your clinicians' notes and supervision, not a generic CEU catalog.

About Katherine

Katherine Driskell, MSW, LICSW, has spent more than a decade leading clinical teams, from Mayo Clinic to a school-based mental health program serving districts across southeastern Minnesota. She knows what it looks like when a growing program outruns the people holding it together, because she has been one of them. Katherine serves on the Minnesota Board of Social Work and has worked on the supervision section of the Social Work Practice Act. Through Clear Blue Sky, she supervises clinicians toward both the LICSW and the LPCC, so agencies can grow their front line without burning out the licensed staff who lead it.

Limited availability for clinicians paying for their own supervision. Ask about openings.

Minnesota Clinical License Supervision for Agencies and Practices

Supervision toward the LICSW and the LPCC, all in one place:

• Weekly individual supervision by telehealth
• Weekly group supervision

That's real value before the extras.

PLUS:

1. Optional note review against the Minnesota Health Care Programs provider manual
2. 2.5 live hours of clinical training each quarter, recorded, with CEU documentation handled
3. Board paperwork, including supervision reports and verification forms
4. A monthly trend report for leadership

Choose a dedicated cohort of 4 to 6 seats for your clinicians only, or buy as few as one seat in an open cohort.

Everything runs by telehealth, anywhere in Minnesota.