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Clinical supervision for LLMSWs
LLMSW supervision in Michigan: Grow into the clinician you're becoming
Your first years in practice are their own metamorphosis. Anne offers individual supervision for limited licensed master social workers in Michigan who want a supervisor who is affirming, steady, and honest with them.
Supervision rate
$75
per hour of individual supervision, held virtually over secure video.
Ask about openings See the steps to licensure
Your supervisor
Twenty years across the whole range of care
Anne Pidek, LMSW, has spent more than twenty years working with people at every stage of life, in a variety of settings. That includes teenagers, adults, and elders, and clients receiving hospice care. She has worked with people who have developmental and intellectual disabilities, with neurodivergent clients, with the LGBTQIA2S+ community, and with survivors of trauma.
For a supervisee, that range means someone who has probably sat with a version of the situation you are facing. A client who cannot communicate the way you expected, a family in the middle of loss, a case that sits outside what your training covered: bring it to supervision and think it through with a clinician who has seen it before.
- Every ageTeens, adults, and older adults
- End of lifeClients on hospice care and the people around them
- DisabilityDevelopmental and intellectual disabilities
- NeurodivergenceAutism, ADHD, and other ways of thinking
- IdentityLGBTQIA2S+ clients and gender-affirming care
- TraumaTrauma-informed work in a range of settings
What supervision covers
Support for the cases, the paperwork, and you
Hours toward the LMSW
Supervision that counts toward your Michigan license, with signed logs and clear documentation of your hours.
Case consultation
Talk through hard sessions, ethics questions, and risk assessments without worrying about looking inexperienced.
Affirming practice
Build skill with LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, and trauma-affected clients, drawing on Anne's 20+ years with these communities, including gender-affirming care letters.
Sustainable practice
Boundaries, caseload pacing, documentation habits, and burnout prevention are part of the work from the first meeting.
Path to licensure
From LLMSW to LMSW in Michigan
The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) sets the steps. This is the path in order, using LARA's own hour counts.
Adding a second specialty. A clinical or macro designation on top of your first takes another 2,000 post-degree hours over at least one year, including at least 50 hours of supervisory review, plus the exam for that specialty.
Supervision by video. Anne's supervision meets live over secure video. LARA's rule allows live video for the individual portion.
Hold an active limited license
After your master's degree in social work, you practice under a Michigan limited license (LLMSW). Supervised experience counts only while that license is active.
Work under a qualified supervisor
Your supervisor must be a Michigan-licensed master social worker in good standing, holding the clinical or macro designation that matches your specialty.
Complete 4,000 supervised hours
These are post-degree hours earned over at least two years. You average 16 to 40 hours of work per week, and no more than 2,080 hours count in any 12 months.
Receive regular supervisory review
Supervision totals at least 4 hours per month, and at least 2 of those hours are one-on-one, in person or live over video. Group supervision is allowed when individual contact makes up half of it.
Have your hours verified
Each supervisor completes LARA's Supervisor's Verification of Social Work Experience form, listing your total hours and your start and end dates.
Pass the exam and apply for the LMSW
Take the ASWB exam LARA requires, then apply through LARA's MiPLUS system with your transcripts, verification forms, exam scores, and the other items LARA lists.
Requirements come from Michigan's administrative rules and LARA's licensing guide, and they can change. Confirm current details with LARA before you plan your hours. Last reviewed November 2026. Sources: LARA master's social work licensing guide and FAQs (opens in a new tab), LARA social work licensing (opens in a new tab), Mich. Admin. Code R 338.2949 (opens in a new tab).
How it works
Getting started
Meet for fit
A short conversation about your setting, your goals, and what you want from a supervisor.
Set the plan
Agree on a schedule, format, and supervision agreement, then start logging hours.
Virtual supervision
All supervision meets over secure video, so you can join from anywhere in Michigan.
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