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International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision (IICCS) 2026
The International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision (IICCS) is unique in being able to bring together supervision practitioners, educators, and scholars from across the spectrum of mental health professions and from around the world to have dialogues and create synergies that otherwise would not be possible.
Dates: June 10 - June 12, 2026
Location: Douglass Campus Center, New Brunswick, NJ (view in Google Maps)
Call for Proposals
We are now accepting proposals until February 1, 2026 (11:59pm EST). Note: For early consideration, please submit your proposals by November 30, 2025.
Workshops
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Dr. Knight is a social worker with more than forty years of experience working individually and in groups with adult survivors of childhood trauma. For more than forty years, she taught social work practice courses to BSW and first year MSW students. Carolyn has written extensively and presented workshops and trainings on working with adult survivors of trauma, as well as topics ranging from engaging in and teaching about group work practice, skills associated with effective teaching in social work education, use of self and self-disclosure in clinical practice, and supervisory skills that promote student growth in the field practicum. More recently, Dr. Knight has written about and presented nationally and internationally on the trauma-informed conceptualization and its application to clinical practice and supervision and its implications for the training of social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, and those going into other mental health disciplines.
Dr. Knight is co-author, with Professors Alex Gitterman and Carel Germain (deceased) of the 2021 social work practice text, The life model of social work practice, 4th ed., which incorporates concepts and skills associated a with the trauma-informed perspective. Carolyn also is co-editor of three books, The Handbook of contemporary group work practice: Promoting resilience and empowerment in a complex world (2024), Group work with populations at risk, 4th ed (2016), both with Geoffrey Greif, and Trauma-informed supervision in a global context (2020) with L. DiAnne Borders. Dr. Knight also authored Introduction to working with adult survivors of childhood trauma: Strategies and skills (2009) and Group Therapy for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (1996).
Plenary Sessions
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Dr. Milena Esherick is the Associate Director for the Master of Science in Counseling Programs at Kaiser Permanente’s School of Allied Health Sciences (KPSAHS). As a licensed psychologist, she has over twenty years of leadership experience spanning higher education, healthcare, and behavioral health startups. She has previously served as the Director of the Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology Program at the Wright Institute where she established the dual MFT/PCC licensure program. Earlier in her career, she directed the Intensive Eating Disorders Treatment Program at El Camino Hospital. Dr. Esherick earned her Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute after her undergraduate degrees in Economics and Women’s Studies from UC Berkeley. She lives in Oakland, maintains a consulting practice working with digital mental health companies, and is a frequent presenter on counselor education, the psychology of behavior change, and most recently, on AI-driven advancements in behavioral healthcare and clinical training.
Dr. Hanna Levenson is Professor Emerita at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, USA. She also has a private practice in Oakland, California where she sees individuals and couples for therapy, trainees for supervision, and professionals for consultation. Dr. Levenson has been specializing in the areas of supervision and brief dynamic psychotherapy for over 40 years. She is the author of six books and over 85 professional papers. Dr. Levenson also has five professional videos illustrating her approach (produced by APA). Recently she created and hosted APA’s Psychotherapy Supervision video series of 11 interviews with experts representing different supervisory models, and edited 11 accompanying books. She is the recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession Award given by the California Psychological Association. Dr. Levenson has provided numerous trainings to various mental health centers and universities nationally and internationally. She recently gave an invited presentation on her work at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna.
Registration Now Open!
- Single Day Ticket
- Early Bird: $140*
- Regular: $165
- Full Conference Bundle (attend all 3 days - up to $65 savings)
- Early Bird: $355*
- Regular: $430
- Virtual Ticket (attend via Zoom)
- Single day ticket: $100
- Virtual ticket bundle (attend all 3 days): $250 ($50 savings)
- Graduate Student Single Day Ticket
- Early Bird: $40*
- Regular: $50
Optional Add-Ons (for both in-person and virtual attendees)
- CE credits: $25 per day
- Drink ticket (at opening reception): $12 per drink
- Opening reception: free, but registration required
- CSRC meeting: free, but registration required (no CEs provided)
*Early Bird ends March 31, 2026
Conference Agenda
More information coming soon.
Hotel Information
There are many local hotels in the area:
- Hyatt Regency New Brunswick (1.2 miles from conference venue; approximate 5 minute drive)
- The Hyatt will provide free shuttle service to and from the conference
- Special discounted rates for IICCS attendees! Use this link to book: https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/EWRRN/G-FIC6
- Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center (0.7 miles from conference venue; approximate 9 minute walk)
- Home2 Suites by Hilton New Brunswick (2.3 miles from conference venue: approximate 6 minute drive)
- Holiday Inn Express & Suites Tower Center New Brunswick (2.4 miles from conference venue: approximate 8 minute drive)
- The Heldrich Hotel (0.9 miles from conference venue; approximate 5 minute drive)
History
This 18th International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision (IICCS) extends a conference series that began at the University at Buffalo in 2005 under the leadership of Larry Shulman and Andy Safyer, then Editors of The Clinical Supervisor, supported with a small grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA).
Leadership
The conference co-chairs are Karen Sewell (Carlton University), Heidi Hutman (Temple University), and Arpana G. Inman (Rutgers University).
They chair a multi-disciplinary, multinational Executive Committee of supervision scholars and practitioners.
CE Credit Information
Up to 13.5 continuing education credits available. More information coming soon.
Continuing Education Information
Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0123.
LMFT/MFT and LPC/LAC Licensed in New Jersey: Programs approved by the American Psychological Association are acceptable sources of continuing education credits. Please see https://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/regulations/Chapter-34-Subchapters-10-31-Professional-Counselors.pdf, Section: 13:34-15.4 APPROVAL OF COURSES OR PROGRAMS on page 27. For all other professional licenses and certifications, please reference your issuing state board regulations regarding reciprocity of continuing education credits.
Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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