Professional Support for Clinicians and Practices

GATE offers supervision, clinical consultation, and practice and program development for clinicians, group leaders, game designers, and practice owners seeking thoughtful, clinically grounded ways to strengthen their work. Services can support clinical judgment, group development, ethical therapeutic gameplay, practice and billing systems, and the movement from a promising idea to a workable service.

Brian Quinones, EdD, LPC, RPT-S, is a co-founder and Clinical Director of GATE.

Choose the Right Kind of Support

Professional work at GATE follows three distinct pathways: supervision toward NJ LPC licensure or the RPT credential; clinical consultation; and practice development, billing systems, and program design. Each has a different purpose, structure, and level of responsibility. You do not need to know which one fits before reaching out—an initial conversation can help clarify what you need.

Clinical Supervision: NJ LPC and RPT

Supervision is a structured, ongoing relationship focused on a clinician’s developing clinical judgment and practice. Supervision with Brian can include support with:

• Case conceptualization and clinical decision-making
• Play-, narrative-, and game-informed practice
• Group process, readiness, structure, and facilitation
• Documentation, professional development, and ethical practice
• Working with neurodivergent children, teens, adults, and families

Supervision is distinct from consultation and from personal therapy. The scope, responsibilities, and structure of any supervision arrangement are set out in a formal supervision agreement before it begins. GATE offers two supervision pathways:

NJ LPC Supervision

Structured clinical supervision for eligible professionals working toward licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey, focused on case conceptualization, clinical decision-making, documentation, and ethical practice.

Before supervision begins, GATE confirms the supervisee’s eligibility, the documentation required, the supervision format, and whether the planned hours will qualify toward licensure. Not every professional or every supervision hour automatically qualifies, and supervisees remain responsible for confirming current requirements with the New Jersey licensing board.

RPT Supervision

Play therapy supervision toward the Registered Play Therapist (RPT) credential, provided under Brian’s Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S) credential. Supervision can include integrating play, narrative, roleplay, and games into clinical work, including the use of roleplaying games as a therapeutic tool.

Supervisees remain responsible for confirming the Association for Play Therapy’s current requirements and for documenting their supervision hours appropriately.

Clinical Consultation

Consultation is a separate pathway for professionals who want a focused thinking partner rather than formal supervision. It is distinct from formal supervision and does not automatically count toward licensure or credential requirements. Learn about consultation.

Clinical Consultation

Consultation is distinct from formal supervision and from therapy. It is a collaborative conversation for licensed or otherwise independently responsible professionals who want a thinking partner. Consultation may be individual or ongoing, and may focus on a specific case, group, program, or clinical question.

Consultation does not automatically count toward licensure or credential requirements. Professionals who need qualifying hours should ask about NJ LPC or RPT supervision instead.

Consultation can offer focused support with:

• Complex cases
• Narrative Readiness describes how prepared the client, group, and clinician are to use story, character, and role safely and purposefully at a given depth.
• Therapeutic roleplay and gameplay
• Group readiness and step-down planning
• Treatment or program structure
• Translating clinical goals into practical interventions

The consulting clinician retains responsibility for their clients, documentation, diagnosis, treatment decisions, and compliance obligations. Consultation does not create a therapist–client relationship with the consulting clinician’s clients, and it is not therapy for the professional seeking consultation. Please share only the information needed for the consultation, consistent with your own confidentiality obligations.

Practice Development & Billing Systems

Practical consultation for clinicians and small practices working to turn clinical expertise into services that are clearly defined, well documented, and sustainable to run. Support can include:

• Practice development and service design
• Documentation and workflow systems
• Billing-system review
• CPT-code selection and documentation alignment
• Group-program operations
• Referral, intake, and administrative workflows
• Coordination between clinical and billing processes

Consultation does not guarantee payer approval or reimbursement. Coding decisions must reflect the service actually provided, its documentation, payer rules, and other applicable requirements. When specialized billing input would help, GATE may invite its biller into a meeting with your prior agreement and with the scope clarified in advance. This is operational consultation, not legal, accounting, or compliance representation.

Therapeutic Game & Program Design

This is the center of GATE’s professional work. Brian helps clinicians and organizations move from “we want to use games” to a clinically coherent intervention—one in which the game serves a clear therapeutic purpose. As in GATE’s own groups, the game is not the treatment; it creates a structured setting in which therapeutic work can happen.

Program and game development can address:

• Population and clinical purpose
• Narrative Readiness and participant safeguards
• Staffing and facilitator roles
• Therapeutic mechanisms
• Session structure and progression
• Role rehearsal and failing forward. Failing forward means treating setbacks within the game as supported opportunities for reflection, adaptation, repair, and trying new choices rather than as final failures.
• Documentation and outcome tracking
• Ethical marketing language
• Pilot, review, and revision plans

Relational Narrative Growth Therapy (RNGT) can provide an organizing framework for examining how story, relationship, choice, rehearsal, and practical integration function within an intervention. RNGT is GATE’s developing clinical approach, not a standalone treatment model or credential.

Program design can include planning a future training for your own team or organization. GATE does not currently offer public trainings or workshops.

Ways to Work Together

Formats are shaped around the question, the project, and the professional involved, and are arranged based on fit, scope, and availability.

Professional Services may be available in person at GATE’s Metuchen office or virtually, depending on the service, jurisdiction, credential requirements, clinical fit, and availability. Eligibility and format are confirmed before services begin.

Contact GATE for current availability, format, and fees.

About Brian Quinones, EdD, LPC, RPT-S

A licensed professional counselor and Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, Brian brings storytelling, play, and game-informed approaches into evidence-based mental health care for children, teens, adults, and families.

Brian serves as a clinical lead for GATE’s roleplay-based therapy groups and provides clinical direction and supervision consistent with each team member’s role. He also supervises the use of roleplaying games as a therapeutic tool for other professionals.

He co-created the tabletop roleplaying game Venture Society with collaborators at 9th Level Games, co-authored its professionals’ guidebook, and co-authored a 2024 book chapter on using tabletop roleplaying games in the treatment of trauma. As a co-founder, he has helped shape GATE from a small first office into a multi-clinician practice offering individual therapy and clinician-directed group programs.

Clinicians can explore Brian’s publications, the Venture Society professionals’ guidebook, and related materials in GATE’s Professional Resources library.

Bring the Clinical Idea Into Focus

Whether you are carrying a difficult case, shaping a group, building a practice, or trying to turn a game idea into a sound intervention, start by describing the problem, project, or professional-development need you are trying to address.

An initial inquiry helps determine whether supervision, consultation, or practice and program development is the appropriate fit.

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