Clinical Supervision

Good supervision is more than sign-offs and hour tracking.

It's where clinical judgment is built, where hard cases get held, and where you learn to trust your own voice as a therapist. At ICA Counselling & Supervision, we provide trauma-informed, anti-oppressive clinical supervision for social workers, psychotherapists, and students across Canada — virtually, on a schedule that works around your caseload.

Who we supervise

• Registered Social Workers (RSW) seeking clinical consultation, complex-case support, or supervision toward advanced practice.
• Registered Psychotherapists (Qualifying) completing the clinical supervision hours required by CRPO for independent practice.
• MSW and Counselling Psychology students completing practicum placements. (See also our Learners at ICA page.)
• Agencies and group practices seeking external supervision for their clinical teams.

What supervision looks like here

Supervision at ICA is grounded in a relational, developmental model: we meet you where you are in your growth as a clinician, not where a checklist says you should be. Sessions blend case consultation, skill development, documentation and ethics review, and — because we practice what we teach — attention to your own wellbeing, countertransference, and vicarious trauma. Supervisees working with newcomer, refugee, and racialized clients will find supervisors who genuinely understand culturally responsive and interpreter-mediated practice, IFHP and NIHB documentation, and medico-legal writing (WSIB, immigration support letters, and third-party reports).

Formats

• Individual supervision — one-to-one, tailored to your caseload and learning goals.
• Dyadic supervision — two supervisees, one supervisor; a cost-effective format recognized by CRPO.
• Group supervision — small groups capped at 8 participants; counts toward CRPO group supervision hours.
• Case consultation — single-session or as-needed consultation for registered clinicians facing a complex case.

Meets your college's requirements

Our supervision is delivered in line with OCSWSSW practice guidelines and CRPO's clinical supervision requirements, including the standards for supervisor qualifications and the documentation you'll need for registration milestones. We provide written supervision records and attestations for your college file. 

Your supervisors

Ilda Caeiro-Azzam, MSW, RSW — Founder and Clinical Director. Over 21 years of clinical practice in trauma, complex PTSD, and work with refugee, newcomer, and marginalized communities. Extensive experience supervising students and early-career clinicians, with specialties in IFHP practice, DBT-informed care, and medico-legal documentation.

Nagham Azzam Iqbal, MSW, RSW — Clinical Supervisor. Nearly a decade of clinical practice, bringing a strengths-based, culturally responsive approach that integrates trauma-informed, CBT, DBT, and mindfulness frameworks to help supervisees build confidence and reflective practice.

Maheen Hyder, MSW, RSW — Clinical Supervisor. with over a decade of experience in refugee mental health, trauma therapy, and humanitarian settings. She has worked extensively with survivors of forced displacement, torture, sexual violence, and complex trauma across clinical, community, and humanitarian contexts. Her supervision approach is relational, reflective, and trauma-informed, creating space for clinicians to deepen their clinical thinking, navigate ethical complexities, and develop confidence in their practice. She has a particular interest in supporting therapists working with trauma, migration, refugee mental health, and cross-cultural clinical work.

Fees

***Student practicum supervision arrangements are made with your academic program — contact us.

Getting started

Book a free 15-minute call to talk about your goals, your college's requirements, and which supervisor and format fit best.