AAMFT Approved Supervisor in Colorado
An AAMFT Approved Supervisor is a clinician credentialed by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy in the practice of supervision itself — and in Colorado, it's one of the specific supervisor qualifications named on DORA's MFT licensure paperwork.
I'm Allie Evans, LMFT, an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and I provide online individual and group supervision to MFTC and LPCC candidates across Colorado.
Why this matters if you're an MFTC in Colorado
Colorado's MFT licensure rules keep the list of people who can supervise you short. On DORA's Post-Degree Experience and Supervision form, the qualifying supervisor options are: a Colorado-licensed LMFT, an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, a psychiatrist with MFT experience, or another licensed professional — and that last group has to petition the Board with a multi-page equivalency form documenting thousands of MFT-specific clinical hours before they can count.
Practically, that means most therapists in Colorado can't supervise your MFTC hours without extra paperwork and Board approval. When your supervisor is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, your paperwork is a checkbox, not a petition.
It also means the pool is small. If you've already discovered how hard it is to find an AAMFT Approved Supervisor in Colorado who has openings, that's not your imagination — there aren't many of us.
What supervision with me looks like
I keep a full clinical caseload — trauma, attachment, perfectionism, complex presentations — so supervision draws on cases I'm working this week, not a framework I used to use. I'm an EMDR Certified Therapist, a Level 1 IFS therapist, and a Certified Somatic Attachment Therapist, and I bring those into supervision when your caseload calls for them.
Sessions are online for people across Colorado, individual or group. Individual supervision is $150 per session; group supervision is $50. You can read the full picture of how I structure supervision — format, group culture, what week-to-week looks like — on my Colorado LPC & LMFT supervision page.
Colorado MFT licensure at a glance
Per DORA's current MFT licensing materials, candidates with a master's degree need 2,000 post-degree clock hours over at least 24 months.
At least 1,500 need to be face-to-face, of which at least 1,000 must be with couples and families — plus 100 hours of supervision, at least 50 of them individual and face-to-face.
That 1,000-hour couples-and-families requirement surprises a lot of candidates who took individual-heavy placements; it's worth planning your caseload around early, and it's something we track together in supervision.
It’s a lot to remember, and I’m here to help.
“I'm an LPCC — does this matter for me too?”
Your rules are different: Colorado's LPC pathway has its own supervisor requirements, and you don't need an AAMFT Approved Supervisor specifically. What the credential means for you is that your supervisor has formal training in supervision itself, plus a systemic lens — how your clients' symptoms live inside their relationships and families — that most individual-therapy supervision never touches. I supervise LPCC and MFTC candidates side by side, and the LPCCs tend to say the relational framing is the thing they didn't know they were missing.
Start LPC or LMFT supervision with Allie
Frequently asked questions
No — a Colorado-licensed LMFT can also supervise you, among a few other options. But the qualifying list is short, and any supervisor outside it needs Board-approved equivalency paperwork. An AAMFT Approved Supervisor is one of the named, no-petition-needed pathways on DORA's supervision form.
Do MFTCs in Colorado have to use an AAMFT Approved Supervisor?
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Yes. I run individual and group supervision online for candidates across Colorado. Confirm current DORA rules for your specific license track when you plan your hours, and we'll structure everything so it's documented correctly.
Can my supervision hours be online?
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Both. LPCC and MFTC candidates are in my groups side by side, which tends to make the case discussion richer — different training lenses on the same clinical problems.
Do you supervise LPCCs too, or only MFTCs?
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What does supervision cost?
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Individual supervision is $150 per session. Group supervision is $50 per session. I publish my rates because you're budgeting for two years of this — you shouldn't have to book a call or sign a contract to find out how much supervision costs.