Julie Hanson is an approved supervisor by the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors to LGPCs (Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor) and LCMFTs.

At Inner Evolution, our supervision program emphasizes a holistic, trauma-informed, and systems-thinking approach to therapy and healing. With a focus on relational dynamics, family systems, and trauma recovery, you will develop the skills needed to offer comprehensive care to individuals, couples, and families, considering the broader relational and environmental contexts that shape mental health.

Our supervision focuses on building a strong foundation in ethical practice, ensuring competency in navigating the complexities of confidentiality, informed consent, and professional boundaries. We emphasize the importance of ongoing professional development in these areas, equipping supervisees with the skills and confidence to manage ethical dilemmas and uphold the highest standards of client care.

Our Systems-Thinking Approach:
We recognize that clients do not exist in isolation.  Supervision emphasizes understanding the interplay of relationships, family systems, and societal structures on individual well-being. 

Therapist Self-Care, Professional Identity, and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Together we explore strategies to manage the emotional and mental demands of providing care, ensuring that you maintain balance while supporting others. This includes fostering a strong professional identity, overcoming imposter syndrome, and nurturing resilience throughout your career. Our supervision environment is designed to support your personal and professional development as a confident, capable therapist.

Commitment to Allyship and Decolonizing Therapy:
We are deeply committed to cultivating allyship and decolonizing therapy. This means providing culturally responsive care and challenging traditional frameworks that may marginalize clients. In supervision, you’ll learn to:

• Practice Allyship: Engage in ongoing learning and reflection to ensure your practice is inclusive, supportive, and affirming for clients from all backgrounds.
• Decolonize Therapy: Challenge conventional therapeutic models that may not serve all clients equally, creating a practice that is equitable, culturally respectful, and empowering.

Areas of Specialization:

Supervisees are encouraged to build on their interests and theoretical model but will also be provided with a wide variety of tools and resources for elevating the art of therapy and healing.

• Integrative Growth Beyond Treatment Plans: We encourage a shift away from a pathology-driven model to a resilience-informed, relational approach. By focusing on clients’ strengths and potential for growth, we can guide our clients toward achieving deeper self-awareness and personal transformation, creating lasting, meaningful healing experiences.

• Holistic Modalities: You’ll learn to integrate practices like yoga therapy, mindfulness, and somatic approaches into your work, offering clients a comprehensive healing path that addresses mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

• Relationship Therapy: Gain specialized skills in working with couples and families, focusing on communication, conflict resolution, and relational repair. By understanding systemic dynamics, you’ll help clients navigate their most important relationships with greater clarity and connection.

• Polyvagal-Informed Therapy: Develop a deep understanding of how the body’s autonomic responses to stress and trauma impact clients. You’ll learn to help clients regulate emotions and foster resilience, promoting healing beyond simple symptom management.

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): Integrate DBT’s core skills of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness into your therapeutic work, offering clients practical tools for managing emotions and improving relationships.