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Who this is for

Group practices, rural clinics and community agencies anywhere in Minnesota where hiring front-line clinicians is outpacing what their fully licensed staff can carry.

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

Two ways to buy it:

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

Raw material for the website bio. Items in [brackets] need confirming.

• Katherine Driskell, MSW, LICSW, owner of Clear Blue Sky Therapy & Consulting.
• More than 10 years of clinical leadership, beginning at Mayo Clinic.
• Led a school-based mental health program serving schools across Rochester and southeastern Minnesota, including districts where it was the only mental health provider for miles. [Grew service hours by about a third in two years: confirm you want this public.]
• 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.
• EMDRIA-approved consultant. [Mention or leave for the EMDR side of the site?]
• Trained in [EMDR, TF-CBT, others].

Pricing (internal, not for the website)

On the website: no prices. Use "for less than hiring and onboarding another licensed clinician."

How the per-seat price is built (per supervisee, per week):

Dedicated cohort: minimum 4 seats, maximum 6.

Open cohort: about 10% more per seat, because Katherine carries the risk of empty seats and manages several agencies.

• A full open cohort with notes brings in $3,150 a week. Break-even against a full dedicated cohort is about five and a half seats.
• A full open cohort, supervision only, brings in $1,500 a week for about 8 or 9 hours of work.

Terms that apply to all seats:

• Billed 48 weeks a year, whether or not the supervisee attends.
• Minimum commitment per seat: [6 months].
• Urgent consultation: $250 an hour, 30-minute minimum, billed in 30-minute increments.
• Note review above the weekly cap: $100 an hour.
• Training for staff outside the cohort: negotiated.

Group-only and individual-only options, for agencies or clinicians who need just one piece, are built from the same per-session rates. A group runs only with at least 3 members.

Billing by the month: sessions are counted over the year, 48 a year, and billed in 12 equal monthly payments. Time off can fall in any week, and some months have 3 or 5 sessions.

Self-pay clinicians (internal pricing)

On the website: "Limited availability for clinicians paying for their own supervision. Ask about openings."

• Who: clinicians on the LICSW or LPCC track paying for their own supervision.
• Rates: $125 per individual session and $80 per group session. This is a self-pay rate. Employer-paid supervision is billed at the agency rate.
• Session credits: each monthly card payment issues that month's session credits, which must be used within 6 weeks. The payment also confirms the clinician's seat in group for the month.
• Scheduling: no more than 2 individual sessions in one week. Missed group sessions are not credited.
• Commitment: 6 months, then quarterly.
• Not included: note review, the leadership trend report and agency administration. [Training add-on: price to be decided.]
• Groups: self-pay clinicians join the open cohort groups alongside agency seats.

Three-month packages, offered as space allows: 12 session credits paid up front, to be used within 4 months. Same per-session rates, so 12 individual sessions are $1,500, and 12 individual plus 12 group sessions are $2,460. The two-sessions-a-week cap still applies. Supervisees remain responsible for spacing their sessions to meet their board's supervision requirements.

A referral path: self-pay clinicians can tell their agencies about the service. "If your agency would like note review or training for its team, I'm happy to talk with them."

Talking points

Short lines to say out loud. The goal is to ask questions and let them describe their own problem, not to pitch.