About Me

Losing a client to suicide, facing a complaint, or carrying a heavy supervision load can quietly wear a clinician down, and most of us were never trained for it. Khara Croswaite Brindle has spent her career supporting clinicians through these moments, as a supervisor, trainer and author.

Khara is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Approved Clinical Supervisor based in Colorado, USA. She owns Croswaite Counseling, PLLC, co-founded Supervisionary, and teaches as adjunct faculty at the University of Denver. She has supervised clinicians since 2014 and trained them in suicide assessment and safety planning since 2017. Her books include The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision, co-authored with Christina Murphy, and Moving from ALERT to Acceptance: Helping Clinicians Heal from Client Suicide. She has presented for the American Association of Suicidology and the International Association for Suicide Prevention, and gave the TEDx talk "The Burden of Busyness".

Her focus areas are clinical supervision and leadership, suicide assessment and safety planning, clinician grief after client suicide, burnout and perfectionism, and financial therapy for therapists. Having experienced a client suicide herself, she writes about what she calls confidential grief: the loss clinicians often carry quietly because of their professional role.

What sets her training apart is that she speaks to the clinician as well as the client. Khara pairs practical frameworks with honest discussion of what this work costs, so practitioners leave with both structure and permission to look after themselves.

For your practice, expect to gain a structured approach to suicide risk assessment and safety planning, supervision practices that build capability rather than dependence, and ways to recognise and respond to your own grief or burnout. Her work particularly suits supervisors, practice owners and clinicians working with high-risk clients.

Quick Win: The Empowerment Model asks supervisors to move between the roles of leader, teacher, consultant, researcher and colleague, while deliberately stepping out of the counsellor role. Before your next supervision session, decide which role your supervisee most needs from you that day.

Qualifications

• MA
• Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Colorado
• Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS)
• Certified Financial Therapist (CFT-I)

Authored Books

• Moving from ALERT to Acceptance: Helping Clinicians Heal from Client Suicide (2024, Rowman & Littlefield)
• Helping Clinicians Heal from Client Suicide: A Workbook (2024)
• Understanding Ruptured Mother-Daughter Relationships (2023, Rowman & Littlefield)
• The Empowerment Model of Clinical Supervision (2019, 2nd ed. 2023, co-authored with Christina Murphy)
• Your Enneagram and Money (co-authored with Hannah DeGroot)
• Perfectioneur: From Workaholic to Well-Balanced (2020)

Media & Recognition

• TEDx talk, "The Burden of Busyness" (TEDxCherryCreekWomen, 2021)
• Featured by CNBC, Fortune Well, BBC Mundo and MarketWatch
• Journal of Financial Therapy article on the Empowerment Model (2023)

Teaching & Roles

• Owner, Croswaite Counseling, PLLC
• Co-founder, Supervisionary
• Director of Training, Financial Therapy Clinical Institute
• Adjunct Faculty, University of Denver
• Founder, Catalively (youth suicide prevention)

Training & Speaking

• American Association of Suicidology
• International Association for Suicide Prevention (New Zealand)
• Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
• Financial Therapy Association

Looking for a steadier way to handle high-risk work and support the clinicians around you? Explore Khara's courses below.