Dr. Gabriel Ybarra is a Florida approved Mental Health Counselor or MHC Registered Intern supervisor in Jacksonville FL. As a university-based supervisor, Dr. Ybarra accrued over 1500 hours of supervision experience with approximately 130 Mental Health Counseling interns. His trainees were renowned as being well prepared, with the highest level of professional behavior and clinical skills. Dr. Ybarra has completed formal graduate coursework and post-doctoral training on effective clinical supervision, with regular freshening of his supervisory skills via trainings.
His parsimonious approach toward providing support and guidance as a MHC Registered Intern Supervisor is based on cognitive-behavioral theory and interpersonal therapy approaches. His work considers the supervisor-supervisee relationship in a developmental perspective -with the ultimate goal of colleague development.
As a mental health counseling intern supervisor, Dr. Ybarra's emphasis of science-based diagnosis, case conceptualizations,
treatment planning, ongoing assessment, and defensible treatment help
interns to develop and hone key sustainable and career-building counseling skills.
While many trainees are interested in free supervision, often they receive inappropriately low, insufficient guidance that threatens their future and their supervisor's current license. Dr. Ybarra charges nominal but affordably supervision fees that come with guaranteed weekly meetings, small group format possibilities, and period on-site chart review. He offers daytime, early morning, evening and Saturday morning supervision time slots.
