The Seasonal Supervision Circle
Seasons of Practice for the Embodied Therapist
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Somatic-informed, relational group supervision, held within a seasonal container, for Registered Social Workers and Registered Psychotherapists in Ontario, including RP (Qualifying).
You hold more than your clients' stories.
Session after session, you are the one attending, tracking, staying steady. Certain cases take more out of you than others, and the clinical responsibility is the same throughout. None of it is shared. Once the hour ends, what the work stirs in you has nowhere to go. In solo practice, there may be no one at all who knows the particular weight of your caseload this month.
Group supervision shifts that arrangement. In this group you are one clinician among a few, and the attention moves in every direction, toward your cases, and toward you. A colleague may name something you have been carrying privately. You may hear your own unspoken question asked aloud by someone else. Care, for once, is shared.
That attention reaches the body as well, because the supervision here is somatically informed. Some of it is experiential, what happens in you as you speak about a client, and what shifts as a colleague reflects something back. Some of it comes from what you share about your clinical work, including how you are using somatic approaches with your clients and where you are unsure of them.
The Seasonal Supervision Circle is a closed cohort of somatically trained clinicians, no more than six, meeting online and moving together from one turning point of the year to the next. One group. The same faces at every gathering, from opening to close. Trust is what makes that possible, and it is built over time and through agreements the group makes together.
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The shape of a season
Rhythm is everywhere in clinical life, once you notice it: in the arc of a single session, in the cycle a client moves through as something changes, in the rise and rest of a working day, in the seasons of a career. The traditions that shaped my own somatic path, yoga and Ayurveda among them, understand time this way too, as a living rhythm rather than a straight line. This circle simply gives supervision the same shape.
About The Circles
A season holds five gatherings, an Opening Circle of two hours and four of 90 minutes, eight hours in all. A somatic lens runs through all five, and the Tending Circle gives it the most room.
Opening Circle — we meet one another, shape the shared agreements, and begin to clarify your learning goals for the season
Full Circle — case presentations, reflections from the circle, clinical direction, and interpersonal feedback
Tending Circle — experiential somatic practice, integration, and closer attention to the use of self
Full Circle — the same shape, building on what the first one opened
Closing Circle — a look back across the season and the learning goals you set, what you take into your practice, and a shared closing ritual
The circle runs four times a year, each season opening near a turning point of the year. That is the shape it keeps. Alongside that shape, each season carries its own invitation, an undertone for our gatherings rather than an agenda. Supervision stays responsive to the cases, questions, ethical considerations and professional experiences you bring.
· Winter Solstice ·
Integration and Intention
The season of the pause, of stillness, when the light is at its lowest and returns slowly over the weeks that follow. Supervision here begins with a year-end reflection: what you learned this year, what you want to keep, and what you are ready to set down. From there, that learning becomes part of how you practise, and a direction takes shape for the year ahead.
· Spring Solstice ·
Emergence and Orientation
The season of the inhale, of new growth, when what settled over winter loosens and energy rises toward the surface. In supervision, this is where we orient toward what has begun to stir: a training that could have a larger place in your sessions, a clinical question taking shape, a direction you are weighing. You explore what you want to develop early on, and it stays as an anchor for you across the gatherings.
· Summer Solstice ·
Embodiment and Expression
The season of the full breath, when the light is longest and everything is easier to see. In supervision, what these months bring into focus is your clinical presence: how your somatic training is landing in session, where use of self enters the room, and how you articulate your framework. Each of those can be refined slowly, with your own responses guiding what changes.
Intention. Orientation. Expression. Recalibration. And then the year turns again. You are welcome for a single season or across several; each one is complete in itself, and each belongs to a larger arc.
· Autumn Solstice ·
Discernment and Recalibration
The season of the exhale, of harvest, when the year begins to shed what it grew. Supervision at this point is an honest inventory: caseload and capacity, boundaries that need strengthening or softening, the saturation that accumulates across a clinical year. We look at what is sustainable, and you release what has served its purpose.
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A process-oriented, experiential circle
A process-oriented circle attends to how clinicians relate, not only to the cases they bring. The learning lives in how you share as much as in what you share, in where you tighten and where you soften while you speak. These moments are not distractions from supervision. They are supervision.
This matters because the way you relate in the circle is not separate from the way you relate with clients. The patterns that travel with us into our own sessions travel in here too: urgency, perfectionism, hesitation, self-doubt. Those are met with curiosity rather than correction.
Process work in a supervision group serves several purposes at once:
noticing aspects of yourself you have not met in your clinical work
putting words to what you feel in session rather than moving past it
recognizing your own part in what happens between you and a client
staying with what moves between members of the circle, as it happens
Personal and professional development are not separate here, which is what distinguishes a process circle from a case discussion group.
What makes a circle like this work is active participation: being willing to be seen while you are still in the middle of something, and open to what colleagues notice in you as well as in your case. Trust in a group is built that way, through what gets risked and what gets said back. The size is deliberate. In a circle this small, everyone is visible, and everyone is known.
Structure holds all of this. I guide the pacing and keep the circle to its purpose, holding it steady enough to be safe and loose enough for something unplanned to happen. The aim is depth rather than intensity.
The Seasonal Supervision Circle may be a good fit if:
You are a Registered Social Worker, Registered Psychotherapist, or Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), practising in Ontario, with an active caseload of clients ages 19 and older.
You hold formal training in a somatic discipline alongside your clinical registration.
You have completed significant training and are now seeking integration rather than accumulation. You want your modalities to feel coherent in your body, not only organized in your notes.
You are curious about how your nervous system, attachment patterns, and relational habits shape your clinical work.
You notice the emotional weight of practice and would welcome a place to metabolize it rather than carrying it quietly on your own.
You value clear standards and regulatory alignment, while also longing for supervision that feels human and embodied.
As you read these, you might notice what feels like recognition rather than urgency. That may be enough to begin a conversation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Not if your registration requires you to practise with supervision. CRPO asks that at least half of your supervision hours be completed individually or in dyadic format, so group hours alone cannot satisfy the requirement, however many of them you gather. There is also the question of oversight. A primary supervisor holds your practice as a whole and confirms your direct client contact hours, and a seasonal group does not give me that view of your work. So the circle runs alongside a primary supervisory relationship, whether that is with me one to one or with someone else.
If your practice is established and supervision is something you choose rather than something required of you, the circle can be the reflective structure your practice rests on. Some members hold it alongside individual supervision or occasional consultation, and some hold it on its own.
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In individual supervision, the hour is entirely yours: your cases, your questions, your pace, and the focus and oversight that one-to-one attention allows. The circle trades some of that focus for what individual supervision cannot give you, which is learning from other clinicians. You still have my supervision, my clinical and ethical perspective, and my attention to how the work is living in you, and alongside it you have colleagues whose reflections widen what any one of us would see alone.
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Full participation offers eight hours of group supervision. CRPO recognizes group supervision in cohorts of three to eight, and asks that at least half of your supervision hours be completed in individual or dyadic format, so the circle counts toward the group portion. There are also limits on how many group hours count at each stage of registration, so it is worth tracking your own totals as you go. Your logged hours reflect the gatherings you attend. At the end of a season, if you are registered with CRPO, I complete and sign their Clinical Supervisor Attestation Form and send it to you to submit with your hours.
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I am Jazmine Juarez, MSW, Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist, registered with the OCSWSSW since 2009, with over 18 years of clinical experience in Ontario. I have provided clinical supervision and consultation for more than five years, and completed my 30-hour clinical supervision training in 2020. My supervision meets CRPO's criteria for clinical supervisors. I am a member in good standing of the OCSWSSW and the Ontario Association of Social Workers.
My clinical education includes an MSW from the University of Toronto and a BA in Psychology from the University of Guelph. My somatic training runs through both sides of this work: clinical somatic and trauma trainings alongside ongoing yoga training since my Registered Yoga Teacher certification in 2014. You can read more about my training background on my About page.
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This is group clinical supervision rather than consultation, and the obligations that come with supervision apply here fully.
As your supervisor, I keep records in keeping with the Standards of Practice. What you share with me is held in confidence, subject to limits we agree on at the start, and I will go through those with you directly, including the circumstances in which I would be required to act on something raised in the circle. I carry professional responsibility for the adequacy of the supervision I provide.
Among members, confidentiality is a given. What is spoken in the circle stays in the circle. What we settle together at the Opening Circle is how that holds across a season, and we revisit it if the season asks us to.
Case material is shared without names. CRPO's guidance is that group supervision rarely justifies identifying client information, so we work from the situation rather than the person: what happened, what it raised in you, what you are weighing. Where a case needs identifying detail to be supervised well, that belongs in one-to-one supervision. Your own clients still need to be told that their care may be discussed with a clinical supervisor, even where no names are used, and if your consent materials do not currently say so, I can help you with the wording before the season begins.
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No. Teaching has its place in the circle, a framework offered when it serves the moment, a practice introduced when the group needs it, but it is woven in rather than delivered as a curriculum. If you are looking for content delivered week by week, this is not that.
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Your fee is fully refundable until three weeks before the Opening Circle. After that the season fee is non-refundable, including for gatherings you are not able to attend, because your place is one of only six and the circle that forms is shaped around every person who commits to it.
If a season does not reach its minimum of four, the circle does not run, and your fee is refunded or carried forward, whichever you prefer.
Between seasons the circle rests, and a new cohort forms at the next turning point of the year. Waitlist members hear from me first, with the dates for the coming season and an invitation to book a call.
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That is understandable, and worth saying plainly: feeling nervous does not mean the circle is not for you. Many thoughtful clinicians hesitate at the threshold of a space that invites honesty and being known over time. The question is rarely whether you feel completely comfortable at the beginning. It is whether the structure and tone of the space feel steady enough for trust to grow, and this circle is intentionally small, closed, and paced with care so that it can.
If you are weighing it, a Complimentary Call is the straightforward way to find out. We can talk through what a season involves and where the hesitation sits. Nothing is committed by having the conversation.
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The foundation this all rests upon
At its heart, this work is both an ethical responsibility and a relational practice.
Whether we are meeting for supervision or for consultation, I remain grounded in the standards of OCSWSSW and CRPO. We attend to case formulation, ethical decision-making, scope of practice, documentation, and the well-being of the clients you serve. That steady foundation is what allows everything else in this space to unfold safely.
The investment
1:1 Supervision
Designed for clinicians seeking depth, continuity, and a supervisory relationship shaped entirely around them. Can serve as the primary supervision of your practice.
Format: online sessions
Frequency: shaped by your caseload and whatever other supervision you have in place. Weekly is often needed early in practice, or where you are working independently without a team around you.
Includes: a supervision agreement, learning goals set and reviewed, and documentation of your hours
Investment:
$185 per 55-minute session
Reduced rate: $165 while you are seeing fewer than five clients a week, whether you are new to practice or rebuilding a caseload
Cancellation Policy: 48 hours' notice; late cancellations and missed sessions are charged in full
How to begin: send me a message through the contact page or book a complimentary call to see whether this is the right fit for you
Clinical Consultation
Designed for clinicians with an established practice who want support with their clinical work and the questions that arise alongside it.
Format: online sessions
Frequency: booked as you need them
Includes: a consultation agreement at the outset, and a focus we agree on each time we meet
Investment:
$185 per 55-minute session
Five sessions for $875 ($175 each), valid six months
Ten sessions for $1,700 ($170 each), valid twelve months
Cancellation Policy: 48 hours' notice; late cancellations and missed sessions are charged in full
How to begin: send me a message through the contact page or book a complimentary call to see whether this is the right fit for you
Group Supervision
The Seasonal Supervision Circle was designed for clinicians who want their clinical work and their own steadiness held in a small group across a season, learning alongside colleagues practising in different settings.
Format:
Five online gatherings across the season, an Opening Circle of two hours and four of 90 minutes, for eight hours of group supervision
Four seasons a year, each opening near a turning point of the year
Meets: Thursday mornings
Group Size: four to six members, closed once the season begins
Investment: $360 per season ($45 per supervision hour), payable in full or in two instalments of $180
Cancellation Policy: fully refundable until three weeks before the Opening Circle; after that the season fee is non-refundable, including for gatherings you are not able to attend
Learn more: the seasonal arc, dates, hours and full terms on the Seasonal Supervision Circle page
How to begin: send me a message through the contact page or book a complimentary call to see whether this is the right fit for you
Let’s begin
When you feel ready
If something on this page has resonated, that is enough to start with.
The Circle is open to RSWs and RPs, including those registered as Qualifying, who hold formal somatic training. It begins with a conversation, at no cost and no obligation: book a complimentary call or send a message. During a call, we talk about where you are in your practice, what you are hoping for from a season, and whether this circle is the right place for it. If it is a fit, you register for the season and your place is held from there.
Places in the circle are offered one conversation at a time until the cohort closes at six, and once a season begins it stays closed. If the cohort fills, or this season does not fit your calendar or your caseload, send me a message and I will add you to the waitlist. Waitlist members are the first to hear, whether a place opens before a season begins or the next season's dates go up.
Whatever support has brought you this far, having more than one person to talk with about your work may be new. Perhaps notice what happens in your body when you imagine not carrying it alone.
