Gretchen Lively, LPC,
Clinical Supervisor of Interns

Gretchen is a Licensed Professional Counselor with the state of Oregon. She holds a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling from Western Kentucky University with a focus in Sex Therapy, exploring the root causes of sexual issues and how the mind-body connection can manifest in our sex lives. She approaches therapy with an unconditional positive regard for individuals, and that rather than a “disease” model, people all come with varying levels of “dis-ease” to be addressed as per that individual’s need for comfort and autonomy. Gretchen believes that we all hold the answers to building our best lives, and that therapy is a collaborative relationship for her clients to be the designers of that life. She specializes in depression and anxiety, and communication frameworks for people in both their romantic and platonic relationships.

 

When not in the office, Gretchen can be found gardening with her cats nearby, doing yoga, or hiking with her two children and husband. 

 

Approach to Supervision/Methods

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I understand supervision to be relationship-based education. I utilize a developmental approach to supervision that best suits the supervisee’s personality, philosophy, work setting, competence level, and experiential history. With novice supervisees, I often use a teaching and counseling role but with more experienced professionals I will use the consultation role. Regardless of the approach to supervision, the underlying beliefs remain consistent. 

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First, my role of supervisor is to always protect client welfare, improve supervisee skills and competence, and provide professional guidance and support in order to help facilitate  supervisee development and achievement of their fullest potential.

Second, regardless of approach, a variety of supervision modalities and techniques will be used to reach the core goals of supervision including: embodied experientials, video recordings, role-play, note review and other modalities that will further the supervisees development.