Bethany Jones Raab, MSW, LCSW, ACS
Chief Executive Officer
Bethany Jones Raab is a licensed clinical social worker, clinical supervisor, educator, and Founder of the Center for Ethical Social Work Practice (CESWP). With over 20 years of experience in social work practice, her work focuses on developing exceptional clinical supervisors and strengthening the structures that support ethical, sustainable social work practice.
Through CESWP, Bethany provides clinical supervision, consultation, and professional education to social workers and organizations. She developed the CARE Framework for Clinical Supervisionā„¢ and created the 45-hour Clinical Supervision Training Program, a progressive training series that prepares current and emerging supervisors for the relational, developmental, ethical, and systems-level responsibilities of clinical supervision. The program also provides the 45 hours of clinical supervision education required for the Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS) credential.
Bethany also develops and facilitates customized clinical supervision training for behavioral health organizations and institutions. Her work is designed for supervisors across experience levels, from clinicians preparing to supervise for the first time to experienced supervisors seeking greater depth, structure, and opportunities to examine their practice.
Her approach to clinical supervision is relational, developmental, culturally responsive, and grounded in accountability with care. Rather than treating supervision as primarily an administrative or compliance function, Bethany teaches supervisors to attend to clinical development, professional identity, power, ethics, context, and the supervisory relationship itself. Her own early experiences with supervision that was misaligned, discouraging, and at times harmful, alongside later formative supervisory relationships, continue to shape how she teaches and practices supervision.
Bethany remains actively engaged in clinical practice through Petal & Peak Mental Health, providing therapy to adolescents and adults. Her clinical background includes extensive work with adolescents and families, anxiety, stress and burnout, sexual health, and suicide risk assessment and intervention. Continuing to practice clinically keeps her supervision and teaching connected to the realities of direct practice.
Bethany also serves as an Off-Site Field Instructor with the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. She has held leadership roles within Colorado's social work community, including serving as Board President of the Colorado Society for Clinical Social Work, and remains engaged in professional education, mentorship, and advocacy.
Bethany is licensed as a Clinical Social Worker in Colorado and Montana and holds the Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS) credential through the Center for Credentialing & Education.
Across her work, Bethany is interested in a central question: What conditions allow social workers to do excellent work and sustain themselves in the profession? That question drives her work to develop stronger supervisors, healthier systems of support, and more sustainable ways of practicing and leading in social work.
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The finer details:
- Master of Social Work, University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work
- Bachelor of Social Work, Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice, University of Sioux Falls
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Colorado
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Montana
- Approved Clinical Supervisor, Center for Credentialing & Education
