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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Stephen Simpson

How a lack of supervisors keeps new mental health workers from entering the field

Psychotherapist Monrovia Van Hoose's office on Friday, Mar. 11, 2022.
A recent workforce survey done by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council found that over 75% of the 10,233 mental health providers who responded indicated they were not supervising anyone currently. (Credit: Lauren Witte/The Texas Tribune)

It was early 2022, and Kiany Casillas was in a panic. It had been two years since she and her newborn daughter had followed her husband from California to the Texas Panhandle, and during that time, she had enrolled at Texas Tech University Health Science Center to pursue a career as a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner.

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