For coaches
How well do you know you?
You've built the skills. You can hold a room, ask the question nobody wants, sit in a silence long enough for something true to arrive. And still there's a client who gets under your skin in a way you can't account for, a session you leave replaying, a version of yourself that shows up in the work and won't explain itself.
That's the material. This is where we work it.
“It is with tough love that Betsy supports her supervisees to reach another level of professional and personal development. She sees, she says, she stays.”
Coaching Supervision Client
The work itself
Capacity, before technique.
Most coach development asks what you should do differently. Supervision invites you to explore what you can hold. The two produce very different careers — one accumulates methods, the other grows the capacity and restore.
The name for it is coaching supervision. Coaches are required as part of credentialing standards through EMCC, and that change is coming to ICF. Many excellent coaches are just discovering where take the parts of the work that stay with them.
You bring a live client, a stuck pattern, a reaction you can't source. We look at what's happening in the system — including the part that's happening in you.
Restorative
The work costs something. This is where you set it down, get met, and go back with more of yourself intact.
Developmental
The patterns you bring to every client, including the ones you can't see from inside your own practice.
Normative
Ethics, contracting, and the edges of your role — thought through before you're standing on one.
Proctor's three functions of supervision — the model most widely used in the field.
How they work together
Supervision & Mentoring - Why Both Matter.
I work the same way in both rooms. I start with what you bring rather than a curriculum. I say what I see. I stay with the uncomfortable part instead of routing around it. And I work from the premise that you are already whole and resourceful, which means neither of these is a repair job.
What changes is what we point that attention at.
Coaching supervision
Capacity
Attends to
What's happening in you, in the client system, and between the two.
Required for
Coaches seeking ACTC.
Format
Small groups, or one to one.
You leave with
More room to hold what the work brings.
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Mentor coaching
Craft
Attends to
Your recorded sessions aligned with the ICF core competencies at your level.
Required for
Coaches pursuing a new credential or renewing ACC.
Format
One to one, in packages.
You leave with
Sharper skills, and the hours your application requires.
Most coaches end up doing both.
A common path: mentoring while you're evidencing a credential, supervision running alongside it or picking up once the paperwork is filed. The craft work sharpens what you do. The capacity work grows the person doing it. Neither one substitutes for the other, and I'll say so if you're reaching for the one that won't help.
Talk it through with me first →
Betsy's coach supervision gave me space to see my own patterns and assumptions. I came out with more confidence in my coaching, more clarity about what I'm still learning, and a real appreciation for how essential supervision is to a coach's growth.
Alex Wallash, MA, PCC · President, ICF San Francisco Bay Area
Join a group
Group supervision, in cohorts that fit who you are.
Six coaches, maximum. Small enough that you present real material and get real time, large enough that you hear yourself in someone else's case. Each cohort runs as a cycle of four sessions.
Team Coaches
For coaches working with teams and systems, where the client is the relationship.
Nonprofit Coaches
For coaches whose clients carry mission, scarcity, and the weight of the sector.
Jewish Coaches
For coaches who want identity in the room rather than parked at the door.
General
Open to any ICF-credentialed coach seeking reflective practice.
You'd rather go one to one? Supervision also runs individually, at your pace and on your material alone. Some coaches start there and join a group later; some do both.
$350 for four sessions
Six coaches maximum
CCE hours
Online
One to one
Mentor Coaching
We listen to your actual sessions together and work them against the competencies — where you're already strong, where the evidence is thin, and what to practice next. Craft work, with your credential on the line.
Going for a credential. ICF's requirements and paperwork have changed, and the documentation is where people stall — especially on the step from ACC to PCC. I hold the Mentor Coach Specialization at both levels, so I can take you through either, and we'll get the evidence in order as we go rather than in a panic at the end.
Renewing. Mentoring is one of the better ways to earn your CCEs. You spend the hours deepening the practice you actually use instead of sitting through a webinar you'll forget.
1:1
Sold in packages
ACC and PCC pathways
CCE hours on renewal
Questions coaches ask
What is coaching supervision?
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You bring something live — a client you're stuck with, a reaction you can't place, a decision you're circling. The group works it with you. We look at the client, the system around them, and what's showing up in you as you hold it. You leave with a different relationship to the thing you walked in with.
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They do different work. Your own coach works on your life and goals. Supervision works on your practice — the specific material that only surfaces when you're in the coach's chair.
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Yes. Sessions carry CCE hours. Most coaches arrive for the hours and stay for reasons that have nothing to do with hours.
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If you have clients, you have material. Newer coaches often get the most from supervision, because the habits are still forming. If mentor coaching fits your moment better, I'll tell you.
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We run anyway. I supervise whoever is in the room, and a small group is a good problem to have — with two or three of you, the time per person goes up. If it comes down to one, you've effectively got 1:1 supervision for the price of a group place.
Come find out what you're carrying.
If you want to talk it through before committing, that conversation is free and takes half an hour.