Meet Mark Cagle, LPC-S
A supervisor who understands therapy, private practice, and the weird little maze of building a career that actually fits.
Mark Cagle, LPC Supervisor #71799
I’m Mark Cagle, LPC-S
I provide online LPC supervision for Texas LPC Associates who want more than someone to sign off on their hours.
Most of the associates who find their way to me are thoughtful, curious, private-practice-minded, and trying to become therapists in a way that feels honest rather than performative.
Many are neurodivergent.
Some know this already. Some are newly diagnosed. Some are self-diagnosed. Some are still connecting the dots.
I’m AuDHD myself, and that shapes the way I think about supervision, systems, clinical development, marketing, burnout, and the kind of professional life therapists are allowed to build.
I do not believe the goal is to become a more polished version of someone else.
I believe the goal is to become more grounded, more ethical, more skilled, and more yourself.
How I got here
I did not come out of graduate school with a clear roadmap for building a private practice.
Like a lot of therapists, I started in settings that taught me a lot clinically while also showing me how quickly good therapists can burn out inside systems that are underpaid, overextended, and full of red tape.
I worked in crisis settings. I learned how to sit with intensity. I learned how to assess risk, think clearly under pressure, and stay present when things were messy.
And eventually, I knew I wanted something different.
Private practice gave me more freedom, but it did not come with an instruction manual.
I had to learn the business side the hard way.
I built my own website.
I ran Google Ads.
I bought courses.
I made expensive mistakes.
I rewrote pages that did not need rewriting.
I tried things that worked.
I tried things that absolutely did not.
Over time, I built a practice that became sustainable.
Not perfect. Not effortless. Not some magical passive-income therapist fantasy.
Sustainable.
That experience now shapes the way I supervise associates who want to understand private practice without getting swallowed by it.
I think supervision should be practical.
Good supervision should help you become a better therapist.
That means we talk about clinical judgment, ethics, diagnosis, documentation, boundaries, risk, use of self, therapeutic stuck points, and what actually happens in the room with clients.
But I also think supervision should help you understand the profession you are entering.
Especially if you want to build a private practice.
So yes, we may talk about your cases.
We may also talk about your consultation calls, your website copy, your niche, your fee, your schedule, your notes, your avoidance, your perfectionism, your systems, your marketing, or the decision you have been overthinking for three weeks.
That is not separate from becoming a therapist.
It is part of building a professional identity you can actually sustain.
I also think supervision should be honest.
I am collaborative, but I am not passive.
I will ask questions. I will offer feedback. I will challenge you when I think something needs to be challenged. I will help you slow down when you are spiraling and zoom out when you are stuck in the weeds.
I am not interested in shaming associates.
I am very interested in helping associates become more honest.
Honest about what you know.
Honest about what you do not know yet.
Honest about what is working.
Honest about what you are avoiding.
Honest about the kind of therapist you are becoming.
I expect mistakes. Not because they are fun, but because they are part of learning.
The goal is not to perform competence.
The goal is to build it.
Why neurodivergence matters in my work
Being AuDHD is not the only thing about me, but it is not incidental either.
It affects how I understand energy, focus, inconsistency, intensity, shame, creativity, systems, transitions, motivation, sensory needs, and the pressure many therapists feel to look more put-together than they actually feel.
It also affects how I understand private practice.
A lot of therapists are told to build a practice by being endlessly consistent, visible, organized, confident, and available.
That advice is not always wrong.
It is just incomplete.
For neurodivergent therapists, the better question is often not, “How do I force myself to do this the normal way?”
The better question is, “What structure would make this easier to return to?”
That question changes everything.
It makes room for experimentation.
It makes room for capacity.
It makes room for accommodations.
It makes room for a different kind of success.
What I bring into supervision
My work with associates sits at the intersection of clinical growth, private practice development, and neurodivergent-affirming support.
That means I can help you think through things like:
- becoming more confident in the room
- understanding your clinical instincts
- navigating ethical questions
- developing a niche
- building a caseload
- writing website copy that sounds like you
- setting fees
- creating systems for notes and admin
- understanding marketing without making it your whole personality
- building a schedule that respects your actual capacity
- deciding what kind of therapist you want to become
I will not hand you one rigid formula and tell you to follow it.
I will help you think clearly, make informed decisions, and build something that fits.
What I hope associates experience with me
I hope supervision feels useful.
Not vague.
Not performative.
Not like one more place where you have to prove you are fine.
Useful.
I hope you leave supervision with more clarity than you came in with.
I hope you feel supported and challenged.
I hope you learn to trust yourself without pretending you know everything.
I hope you become more clinically grounded, more ethically thoughtful, and more willing to build a professional life that reflects who you actually are.
And if you are neurodivergent, I hope you experience supervision as a place where that part of you does not have to be translated, minimized, or explained away before we can get to work.
A little more personally
Outside of supervision and therapy, I am someone who tends to go deep into whatever has my attention.
Websites.
Marketing.
Private practice strategy.
Relational Life Therapy.
Neurodivergence.
Systems that are simple enough to actually use.
I like understanding how things work and then making them more useful, more humane, and less unnecessarily complicated.
That is a lot of what supervision is for me.
Taking something that feels big, vague, overwhelming, or shame-filled and helping you find a way through it.
Want to talk about supervision?
If you are an LPC Associate in Texas looking for supervision that includes clinical growth, private practice guidance, and room to be a full human being in the process, I’d be glad to talk.
You do not need to have a perfect plan before reaching out.
You just need enough curiosity to start the conversation.