Clinical Supervision
Build your skills. Trust your judgment. Develop your clinical voice.
The right supervision can shape far more than the hours required for licensure. It is an opportunity to think more deeply about your work, navigate the challenges that come with clinical practice, and build confidence in the decisions you make along the way.
Supervision at Golden Hive is collaborative, practical, and tailored to your development as a counselor. Bring the complex cases, treatment questions, ethical considerations, moments of uncertainty, and even the situations that leave you wondering if you handled something the right way. This is a space to explore them openly, receive thoughtful feedback, and strengthen the clinical reasoning behind your decisions.
The goal is not to teach you to practice exactly like someone else. It is to help you develop the knowledge, judgment, and confidence to make thoughtful decisions while discovering the kind of clinician you want to become.
Meet Your Supervisor
Lindsay West, LPCC-S, C-DBT, C-PD, C-STIP
Lindsay West is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Supervisor in Ohio and the founder of Golden Hive Counseling & Clinical Supervision. She has approximately six years of experience providing mental health and substance use treatment across outpatient and intensive outpatient settings.
Her clinical experience includes working with adults, adolescents, families, and couples across a range of concerns, including trauma, eating disorders, substance use, anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, personality-related concerns, relationships, and intimacy.
Lindsay has experience in individual counseling, group therapy, clinical assessment, case management, treatment planning, and multidisciplinary care. She integrates evidence-based approaches including EMDR, CBT, DBT, ACT, and motivational interviewing through a trauma-informed lens.
Her continued professional development includes specialized certifications in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT), personality disorder treatment (C-PD), and sex therapy informed practice (C-STIP).
As a supervisor, Lindsay brings this clinical experience into a collaborative learning environment designed to help counselors strengthen both their practical skills and their confidence as developing professionals.
What We Can Work On Together
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Case Conceptualization
Develop a deeper understanding of client concerns, patterns, diagnoses, and the factors influencing treatment.
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Treatment Planning
Strengthen your ability to develop thoughtful, individualized treatment plans and connect clinical goals with appropriate interventions.
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Clinical Interventions
Explore evidence-based approaches and learn how to select and apply interventions based on each client's presentation and needs.
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Complex Cases
Work through challenging presentations, clinical uncertainty, barriers to progress, and situations that require thoughtful clinical decision-making.
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Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Discuss ethical considerations, professional boundaries, documentation, scope of practice, and other responsibilities that come with clinical work.
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Therapeutic Relationships
Explore rapport, boundaries, communication, therapeutic dynamics, and challenges that may arise within the counseling relationship.
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Professional Identity
Develop greater confidence in your own therapeutic style, clinical judgment, strengths, and identity as a counselor.
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Clinician Wellness
Recognize the emotional demands of clinical work and develop healthy professional boundaries, self-awareness, and sustainable practices.
Investment
Dedicated supervision gives you the space to explore cases, strengthen clinical judgment, and receive meaningful feedback while continuing to grow in confidence, skill, and professional identity.
Finding the right supervisor matters. Reach out with questions or to explore next steps.