Counselor development
& professional identity
Exploring how counselors build confidence, navigate uncertainty, and find their own voice—from early training through the responsibilities of supervising and leading others.
About the host & the heart behind the podcast
Supporting the people
who support others.
Counselor development, meaningful supervision, and the relationships that help us grow into our work.
Charisse Tay Mitchell
Counselor · Doctoral student · Host of Unsupervised
Meet Charisse
A curiosity about
how counselors grow.
I’m Charisse Tay Mitchell, a counselor and doctoral student in Counselor Education and Supervision at Colorado Christian University. My work brings together counseling, clinical leadership, and the development of emerging counselors.
I’m especially interested in what helps counselors feel supported enough to be honest about what they don’t know, reflect on their own responses, and develop a professional identity that feels grounded and authentic.
That interest is at the heart of Unsupervised. Through conversations with supervisors and other guests, I explore how different approaches to supervision come to life in real relationships.
Explore more of my work in counseling, education, research, and leadership on my main portfolio.
Visit my portfolio ↗My focus
Supervision with room for the whole person.
Counselor development
Relational & trauma-informed supervision
Bringing curiosity to the supervisory relationship, including how safety, connection, self-awareness, and patterns of responding shape learning and clinical work.
From theory to practice
Making supervision models useful in everyday work through reflection, case consultation, experiential learning, and practical conversations about the challenges counselors encounter.
Faith, values & leadership
Considering how Christian faith and personal values inform counseling and supervision, alongside an interest in how counselors grow into clinical and organizational leadership.
Why Unsupervised?
Thoughtful questions.
Real conversations.
The podcast creates space to learn from the people doing this work. Each conversation offers a chance to explore a perspective, ask a question, or connect a supervision model with the experience of being a counselor.
The current series focuses on different supervision models, with room for special topics such as anxiety, holistic care, mentorship, and faith.
My hope is that listeners leave with something to reflect on and bring into their own learning, relationships, and practice.
Explore the conversations →Academic background
Learning across disciplines.
In progress
Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision
Colorado Christian University
Master of Arts
Biblical Counseling
Dallas Theological Seminary
Master of Arts
Clinical Psychology
Columbia University
There’s room to be a work in progress—and to help someone else grow along the way.