Feedback r/t clinical supervision
Hello all, I work as a LCSW as independent contractor providing mental health services to older adults. Occasionally, the companies I contract with ask me to provide clinical supervision to interns or students. I was approached by a new owner of a company to provide clinical supervision for a MFT intern. After meeting with her, I realized that her English is very limited and we had much difficultly understanding each other. I told the owner that he could either provide me with a translator or they could find another supervisor for her who spoke her language. He proceeded to terminate my contract with the company after our conversation, which was not surprising. I was not upset over the termination, however, he is telling employees that I discriminated against the intern because she did not speak English by refusing to supervise her. This is very upsetting to me as it is a complete lie and falsehood. It is unethical for me to provide clinical supervision to an intern if we cannot speak the same language. I feel like confronting him, but I think I should just let it go. What would you do in this situation?#