Supervisors
Sentio Counseling Washington counselors receive clinical supervision from experienced, licensed professionals who have completed our Deliberate Practice Supervision Residency, a year-long intensive training program unlike anything else in the field. Each Sentio supervisor completes over 50 hours of video-based training in the Sentio Supervision Method (SSM), a comprehensive, stepwise Deliberate Practice model that uses recorded therapy sessions, routine outcome monitoring, and structured skill rehearsal to reliably improve counselor effectiveness. This rigorous approach to clinical supervision directly benefits every client we serve throughout Washington State, including those in Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver, Bellevue, Kent, Everett, Renton, Federal Way, Spokane Valley, Kirkland, Auburn, Bellingham, Kennewick, Redmond, Puyallup, Lakewood, Sammamish, Olympia, and Marysville.
Our supervisors volunteer their time and expertise because they are committed to advancing the quality of mental health care in Washington and beyond. They bring experience across a wide range of evidence based treatment models, including cognitive behavioral therapy, emotion focused therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and multicultural therapy. Their training equips them to guide counselors at every developmental level, from beginning trainees to licensed therapists, using real session data and expert feedback rather than relying on self-report alone.
Affiliated with the nonprofit Sentio University, our supervision model reflects a broader commitment to quality improvement in psychotherapy training and mental health service delivery. If you are a licensed clinician interested in becoming a Sentio supervisor, learn more about our Deliberate Practice Supervision Residency. If you are looking for affordable online therapy with clinicians trained under this level of supervision, get started today.
Sentio supervisor training includes:
How to use Deliberate Practice with trainees at all developmental levels (beginning trainees to licensed therapists)
Apply Deliberate Practice across all models of psychotherapy (CBT, psychodynamic, EFT, MI, etc.)
Use Deliberate Practice for developing the person-of-the-therapist and inner skills (e.g., countertransference)
How to provide the most helpful feedback and within the Zone of Proximal Development
How to use Routine Outcome Monitoring in supervision
Elisha Geers
Elisha Geers, LICSW specializes in developmental and complex trauma, anxiety, and identity exploration through an integrative, trauma-informed lens. She is an EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist, Certified DBT Professional, Advanced Clinical Trauma Specialist, and a registered hypnotherapist, drawing from existential, humanistic, psychodynamic/attachment, and feminist/queer frameworks. Elisha brings extensive experience across community mental health, veteran services, and digital therapy platforms, providing biopsychosocial assessment, psychotherapy, skills training, and coordinated care to teens and adults. Her clinical interests include generational trauma, multicultural and immigrant/emigrant experiences, BIPOC identity, post-traumatic growth, and body-focused repetitive behaviors. She incorporates EMDR, DBT, Ego State Therapy, Hypnotherapy, and the ComB model in her work. Elisha holds a Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis and a BA from the University of Washington, and she offers therapy in both English and Japanese.
Jason Brand
Jason Brand, LCSW is a Lead Deliberate Practice Instructor and trainer at Sentio. He is certified in Deliberate Practice Supervision through the International Deliberate Practice Society. In his private psychotherapy practice Jason specializes in supporting the growth and development of men in an increasingly complex world. His work with men includes facilitating a group for fathers of young children. In his couples work, he is certified in PACT (The Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) and serves as a faculty member at the PACT Institute. Jason lives in Berkeley with his wife of twenty years and their two teenage daughters. Find out more about Jason on his website:www.jasonbrand.com
Lesylette Chevez
Lesylette Chevez, LICSW with over 20 years of experience specializing in trauma-focused care, integrating EMDR, IFS, CBT, ACT, and attachment-based approaches. She has worked across public health, family services, and clinical practice, providing culturally responsive services in English and Spanish while offering clinical supervision to therapist associates. Lesylette’s background includes advanced training through the Complex Trauma Training Consortium, curriculum development and international teaching, and extensive experience in assessment, treatment planning, and risk/safety protocols. She holds a Ph.D. in Counseling and Psychological Studies (Regent University), an MSW in Multi-Ethnic Practice (University of Washington), and a BS in Psychology (Portland State University). EMDR Certified and an EMDR Consultant-in-Training, she has contributed to professional publications and presented internationally on trauma, cultural trauma, and dissociation.
MacKenzie Stuart
MacKenzie Stuart is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with adults, couples, partners, and families. She specializes in nontraditional relationship structures, including polyamory and other forms of consensual nonmonogamy, as well as chronic depression and suicidality. Her other clinical interests include psychosis, psychopharmacology and drugs, LGBTQIA2-S and GNC/non-binary communities, kink and BDSM practices, and sex work. MacKenzie enjoys psychodynamic case conceptualization, the enneagram, biofeedback, narrative and solution-focused interventions, and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) skills. She is a member of core faculty at The Wright Institute in Berkeley and leads a private practice in Alameda.