Group Practice Partnership
For group practice owners & supervisors
Education & Skills Support Partnership
A structured education series program for group practices supervising masters-level interns and early-career clinicians. Debi brings anxiety-specific skill-building directly to your group — in a defined series format, clearly separate from supervision, built to renew as your clinician cohorts turn over.
What your interns need that supervision alone can't always provide
- Dedicated time to learn anxiety-specific skills — not just review cases
- A space to ask foundational questions without it feeling like a gap in supervision
- Clinical frameworks and language before they encounter complex anxiety presentations
- Skill-building that makes their supervision richer and their clinical thinking sharper
The education series
Foundation Skills Series
The starting point for every intern cohort
An overview of anxiety disorders and the core clinical skills that apply across presentations. Designed as the foundation before moving into specialty series — and the right re-entry point every time a new intern cohort joins your practice.
Children & Families Series
Anxiety in children, adolescents & family systems
Specialty
A deeper dive into anxiety as it presents in children and adolescents, and how family systems shape and maintain anxious presentations. For practices whose clinicians regularly work with younger clients and their families.
Women's Anxiety Series
Perinatal anxiety, OCD & women-specific presentations
Specialty
Anxiety as it presents specifically in women — perinatal OCD, postpartum anxiety, and the ways hormonal and life transition context shapes presentation and treatment. A population that is often undertreated and underserved in clinical training.
Each series: minimum 4 sessions · monthly · 90 minutes · live on Zoom · topic and depth tailored to your group in the discovery call
How series build on each other
Foundation is always the starting point. From there, practices choose the specialty series that fits their client population. When intern cohorts turn over, the Foundation Series is the natural re-entry point — and the cycle continues. Practices can also engage multiple specialty series over time.
What this partnership is — and isn't
What Debi does
- Teaches clinical skills, tools, and anxiety-specific frameworks
- Turns real clinical situations into teaching moments — without touching case specifics
- Proposes and delivers a defined education series for your group
- Provides resources and async support between sessions
What Debi does not do
- Provide clinical supervision or oversight
- Offer case consultation or carry clinical responsibility
- Replace or duplicate your supervisory role
- Make clinical or ethical decisions about client care
What case-inspired education looks like in practice
An intern brings this
"I have a client who shuts down every time I try to explore their anxiety. I don't know what to do."
Debi takes it here
The case details go to the supervisor. The skill underneath — reading and responding to avoidance as a maintaining factor in anxiety — becomes the teaching for the whole group.
Who this is for
Any masters-level clinician in a supervised group practice setting — regardless of licensure track.
Let's talk about your practice
Every group practice is different — the makeup of your intern cohort, the populations you serve, and what your clinicians most need to develop. A discovery call is the right first step. We'll figure out together which series fits your group and what the engagement looks like.
Deborah Mertlich, LCSW
20 years of anxiety-focused clinical practice. Licensed in Oregon and Washington. Specializations in perinatal OCD, selective mutism (PCIT-SM), women's anxiety, and life transition anxiety. Debi has worked alongside supervisory structures throughout her career and understands exactly where the education role ends and the clinical role begins.
Content offered through Anxiety Solutions Network is educational in nature and does not constitute clinical supervision, case consultation, or professional advice regarding specific clients. All clinical and supervisory decisions remain the responsibility of your licensed supervisor or your own clinical judgment as a licensed professional.