You were paying for supervision hours from your employer? Was the supervision provided during the business day? Something seems real shady here, especially if said supervisor wasn't qualified to provide the hours anyways.

I'm a salaried supervisor at my organization and I provide licensure supervision to unlicensed staff as part of my paid job. It was in my job description to become a clinical supervisor. It's absolutely crackers to me that you had to pay for this to be received by your employer, especially if it was received during the work day. That supervisor is double dipping in terms of compensation and this feels wrong.

If this is a private practice, then maybe someone could chime in and correct me in that paying for supervision from your employer is how it's usually done. I've always worked at CMHCs, so I confess my knowledge of how licensure supervision works in a private practice can be lacking.

However, free supervision feels like the trade-off for hiring unlicensed folks. Agencies pay them less (but still hopefully an ethically living wage) and in exchange for that lower salary, the unlicensed staff get the benefit of free licensure supervision.

All said, you paid for a service that you didn't really receive. In agreeing to take your money, they agreed that their hours would count towards your licensure. I feel like legal remedies could apply here, but I'm no lawyer.