We don’t train therapists who follow scripts.
We train therapists who hear patterns.
ShieldMee is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Our supervision program is built for clinicians who want to do the work that actually matters — with the populations most practices won’t touch.
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Why This Program Exists
Most post-graduate supervision in this field is broken, and everyone knows it.
Here’s what the standard model looks like: an intern gets credentialed, handed an unsustainable caseload, and meets with a supervisor who asks, “So how did your sessions go this week?” The intern summarizes from memory. The supervisor nods, offers a few suggestions, signs the log. Repeat until licensure. The intern leaves knowing how to bill insurance, complete documentation, and survive — but not how to sit across from a treatment-resistant client who is smarter than them, who has been through six therapists, and who will test every assumption they’ve ever held about what therapy is supposed to do.
That’s not training. That’s attrition with paperwork.
ShieldMee Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and our mission is specific: train the next generation of clinicians who can handle the cases everyone else refers out.
What We Actually Train
We’re not talking about techniques and certifications. What we train is harder to name and harder to fake.
You’ll learn how to hear what a client is avoiding — not just what they’re saying, but the topics they circle without landing on, the pronouns that shift when they get close to something real, the places where their narrative gets rehearsed and polished because the raw version is too threatening.
You’ll learn Socratic questioning as a clinical instrument — not lecturing disguised as questions, but genuine elenchus: the disciplined use of inquiry to help a client encounter their own contradictions without feeling ambushed by them. This is how you expose patterns without rupturing alliance. It is one of the hardest skills in clinical work, and we take it seriously.
You’ll learn to work with treatment-resistant clients — the ones who have defeated other therapists, who know all the techniques, who weaponize therapeutic language to maintain control. You’ll learn why resistance is clinical data, not a character flaw, and what to do with it.
Not every clinician is built for this work.
Not every practice is built for every clinician.
The cases we specialize in — treatment-resistant, forensic-adjacent, high-acuity family systems — demand a specific kind of practitioner. Before you apply, we ask one question: “See if we’re a good fit” isn’t just a button. It’s a philosophy. We’re selective because our clients deserve it — and so do you.
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Our compensation is designed to be competitive with the top tier of post-graduate positions in Florida, because post-graduate clinicians are professionals, not cheap labor.
Beyond compensation, the training itself is what sets this program apart. You’ll receive structured supervision hours toward licensure with a clinical director who reviews real clinical material and provides the kind of granular, transcript-level feedback that most supervisors don’t have the methodology or the courage to offer.
You’ll work with diverse, high-acuity clinical populations that most early-career clinicians never encounter until years into practice. You’ll receive specialized training in forensic evaluation, dual diagnosis treatment, complex family systems, and work with treatment-resistant populations.
The entire program operates via telehealth, giving you the flexibility to serve clients throughout Florida.
Why We Use Transcripts
Memory is a reconstructive process. When a therapist describes a session from memory, they are not reporting what happened — they are reporting a curated version of what they believe happened, shaped by their own defenses, their own blind spots, and their natural tendency to underreport their own directive statements while overreporting reflective ones. Memory doesn’t lie exactly — it curates.
James Pennebaker’s decades of psycholinguistic research offer a different path. His work has shown that language patterns — particularly function words like pronouns, articles, prepositions, and auxiliary verbs — reveal psychological states that the speaker is often unaware of. These patterns appear in therapeutic conversation just as they appear everywhere else, and they are invisible to recall.
When we review a transcript in supervision, we’re not doing what a therapist does when they describe a session from memory. We’re looking at what actually happened — the exact words, the exact sequence, the micro-moments where the therapist made a choice (or failed to make one) that shaped everything that followed.
We don’t trust memory. We trust the record.
The Standard We Hold
Before ever asking an intern to submit their work to this level of scrutiny, Eduardo Florez spent years subjecting his own clinical sessions to the same process — reviewing his own transcripts first.
That’s the culture at ShieldMee. We don’t ask you to be vulnerable in a way we haven’t been willing to be ourselves. The expectation of transparency applies to everyone here, because that’s the only way the standard means anything.
If this sounds like the kind of training you’ve been looking for — keep reading.
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