The Power-Conscious Supervisor

Dr. Amanda Aguilera is a psychotherapist, speaker, author, and power-conscious guide with 17 years of experience supporting individuals, relationships, and organizations. As the Lineage Holder of the Right Use of Power™, she is committed to helping people understand and engage power in ways that foster accountability, agency, connection, and right relationship. Dr. Amanda believes that power does not have to divide or control us—it can also connect us.

Her approach invites helping professionals to explore how identity, attachment, history, authority, systemic influences, and personal experience shape their relationships and responsibilities. She is especially interested in helping people hold complexity, recognize their own emotional responses and shadow, relate across difference, and use power with greater transparency and care.

She is the author of Shaping Power for Good: Wayfinding to Right Relationship and the founder of Sacred Wayfinding, which offers rituals of transition and soul-level guidance through living and dying.

Kyla Jones, is a counselor educator, clinical supervisor, and somatic therapist whose work is grounded in relational, embodied, and power-conscious approaches to supervision. Drawing from her experience in clinical leadership, counselor education, supervision-of-supervision, and clinician development, she supports counselors and supervisors in exploring how identity, power, nervous system responses, attachment, and relational dynamics shape clinical and supervisory relationships. Her approach emphasizes transparency, curiosity, complexity, and the intentional use of self, with particular attention to recognizing relational patterns, working across difference, and remaining grounded through discomfort, rupture, and repair.

Grounded in trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and culturally responsive practice, Kyla views supervision as a collaborative developmental process that asks supervisors to hold the responsibility and authority of their role while actively fostering supervisees’ agency, autonomy, clinical judgment, and emerging professional identities.