Supervision
I offer supervision for psychologists, therapists and other helping professionals, individually and in groups.
Supervising is a large part of my own week: at Clinic Les Alpes I supervise psychologists and therapeutic staff, and help organise the clinical team’s training.
Thinking about the work
Supervision is a place to think about your clinical work with someone who is not caught up in it. It is not, or shouldn’t be, an examination. My approach is grounded in existential-phenomenological and psychoanalytic thinking.
I am as interested in what the work does to you as in the person you are treating: where you feel stuck, moved, irritated or unsure. These are usually taken to be the therapist’s problem. I think they are more often the therapist’s best evidence. My doctoral research is about how psychologists experience resistance in high-risk settings, so the cases that feel hardest are welcome here.
Supervision takes place online: one to one for fifty minutes, or in a group of four for an hour.
Supervision can include
Talking through cases
Thinking about the therapeutic relationship
Your development as a clinician
Ethical questions
What the work stirs up in you
One to one or in a group
The cases we least want to talk about are, as a rule, the ones worth bringing.