BROOKE POMERANTZ, LCSW | CALIFORNIA THERAPY & THERAPY IN OAKLAND
Clinical Consultation for Early Career TherapistsBuild confidence. Deepen your clinical thinking. Feel less alone in the work.
Your Path Into Supervision and Consultation
My early experiences as a therapist informed my desire to offer supervision and consultation for early career clinicians. Those first years following graduation or licensure can feel hard and overwhelming — whether you’re trying to establish yourself in private practice or working in an agency setting. It can be isolating, and challenging to think clinically and work effectively on your own.
So, I’ve created a space where early career therapists can get the kind of support, guidance, and modeling that I would have benefited from early in my career – a place to build confidence in your clinical skills and feel more grounded in your work as a psychotherapist
Why Supervision and Consultation Matters
Graduate school is really just the beginning of a person’s clinical education. Our learning continues throughout our careers, and it’s important to have ongoing help in environments where we can keep thinking, growing, and getting support in providing good clinical care.
Supervision and consultation offers the chance to think with other clinicians about your clinical work, to feel less isolated, and to be part of a larger clinical community.
Common Challenges for Early Career Therapists
Many new therapists experience:
Overwhelm, burnout, and exhaustion
Self-doubt or imposter syndrome
Confusion around healthy boundaries
Gaps in training or supervision that leave them feeling unprepared
Struggles making clinical work financially sustainable
Feeling intimidated in some clinical spaces
Confusion around healthy boundaries
Isolation and lack of community
Balancing work and personal life
Sometimes the clients we see are far more complex than what we were trained for. The textbook learning can be oversimplified, and it can be hard to know how to approach multi-layered clinical realities.
In consultation, I help clinicians process their cases slowly — we consider together what’s working, what’s not, and different ways of approaching the work.
My 3 Areas Of Focus with Early Career Clinicians
1) Bridging the Gap Between School and Real-World Practice
Many new therapists realize quickly that their graduate training didn’t fully prepare them for the complexity of the clients they are seeing. Clients rarely fit the textbook categories, and what “should” work doesn’t always translate in the room.
In consultation, we look closely at your cases. You’ll have space to present your work, explore what’s happening between you and your clients, and think through different interventions.
We’ll draw on readings or case vignettes; other times, and we’ll identify patterns (both effective and those that you would like to shift) in your clinical process and how theory can illuminate them.
The goal is to help you connect what you’ve learned with what you’re actually experiencing — turning theory into something alive and usable in your day-to-day practice.
2) Strengthening the Therapeutic Process
Your clinical work is not limited to what is said in the session — it also involves examining nonverbal communication, what is left unsaid, what is communicated behaviorally, how you hold the frame, and how you organize your thinking around the clinical relationship and treatment.
In consultation, we often look at how documentation can support you: not just as a way to cover legal and ethical responsibilities, but as a tool for reflection and structuring your thinking about the work. We will focus on how to capture what’s essential without over-documenting.
We’ll also talk about boundaries and how to make sure that the work is sustainable: how to set clear fees and cancellation policies, how to be thoughtful around self-disclosure, and how to maintain a therapeutic frame that protects both you and your clients. The goal is to help you to feel grounded and resourced, both inside and outside the therapy room.
3) Developing Your Clinical Voice
Early career therapists often feel pressure to practice like their supervisors or to have immediate answers to clinical challenges. Part of becoming a strong clinician is learning to tolerate uncertainty and trust your own way of working.
In consultation, I help you identify what feels authentic — the approaches, theories, and interventions that resonate with your sense of what’s healing. For some, that means integrating different therapeutic orientations; for others, it means leaning into a particular orientation more fully.
Through our work together, you’ll begin to own your authority, trust your instincts, and find a voice that feels like yours — not someone else’s idea of how therapy should look.
Early career therapists often feel pressure to practice like their supervisors or to have immediate answers to clinical challenges. Part of becoming a strong clinician is learning to tolerate uncertainty and trust your own way of working.
In consultation, I help you identify what feels authentic — the approaches, theories, and interventions that resonate with your sense of what’s healing. For some, that means integrating different therapeutic orientations; for others, it means leaning into a particular orientation more fully.
Through our work together, you’ll begin to own your authority, trust your instincts, and find a voice that feels like yours — not someone else’s idea of how therapy should look.
Navigating the Emotional and Practical Realities
Supervision and Consultation is also a space to think about boundaries, self-care, and sustainability in the work. We talk about:
1) How to set and hold clear policies around fees and cancellations
2) How to communicate expectations to clients early on
3) How to recognize, prevent or work with resentment or burnout
4) Identifying what supports you need outside of work to feel resourced and connected
Whether you’re in private practice or an agency-based setting, it’s easy to feel isolated. I help clinicians think about how to cultivate professional connection and community — because even when you’re working on your own, you shouldn’t have to do this work in isolation.
My Style and Orientation
My style is warm, attuned, relational, and active. I work from a contemporary psychodynamic and relational orientation, and I try to be accessible and collaborative. I can be directive when there are legal, ethical, or safety concerns, but otherwise I aim for consultation to be a space of shared reflection and curiosity.
I’m especially interested in helping clinicians understand their own emotional reactions to clients — how those reactions can guide the work and inform what’s happening in the room.
Consultation Options
If you’re interested in supervision and consultation, reach out to schedule an initial meeting.
Let’s think together about how you can feel more confident, connected, and supported in your clinical work.
Individual Consultation
50-minute sessions via secure Zoom or in-person.
Small Group Consultation
1 hour and 15 minute group for early career clinicians seeking community and shared learning.
About Me
I’m Brooke Pomerantz, a licensed therapist based in Oakland and serving clients across California, New York, and Indiana. My approach is warm, collaborative, active, and grounded in many years of clinical work experience, ongoing professional development and consultation and my desire to be accessible and deeply humane in doing this work. I’m here to support you through life’s challenges with thoughtful, personalized therapy.
Brooke Pomerantz
Brooke Pomerantz is a compassionate and experienced licensed clinical social worker dedicated to providing supportive therapy services in Oakland and through teletherapy across California. With a focus on creating a safe and nurturing environment, Brooke helps clients navigate life’s challenges, fostering growth and healing through personalized therapeutic approaches.