Clinical Supervision
"Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."
— Rumi
Supervision
I am a certified clinical supervisor with the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health to provide supervision for people pursuing their LPC or LPCC. I also have a competency in supervision with the Minnesota Board of Psychology to provide supervision to providers pursing their LP.
My Training
I have completed the 45 hour required clinical supervisor training course, through the Adler Institute in Minnesota. In graduate school, my Ph.D. dissertation researched therapist awareness of counter-transference as a predictor for psychotherapy process and outcome. I provide a multicultural perspective and competency to my supervision, having developed and taught courses on the Social Psychology of Gender and on Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination at Eugene Lange College in New York.
My Philosophy and Approach
My philosophy of therapy is primarily psychodynamic, with an understanding that what we are born into and experience from conception onwards affects our development of personality, coping patterns, belief systems, narratives, body memories, behavioral and interpersonal patterns. My approach is to facilitate awareness and understanding of these processes, so that clients can develop empathy and choice to heal from past conditioning/trauma and internalized abuse/neglect. My work is attachment, trauma and mindfulness informed, and incorporates CBT (cognitive triangle), DBT (affect regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness), assertiveness and other skills as needed. My therapeutic style is client centered, holistic (mind-body-spirit), systemic (aware of personal, familial, social, political, economic/class, cultural, ethnic, gender and intergenerational contexts), feminist (equality, all humans have equal inherent value, inner work corresponds with social/political work - i.e. facilitates social justice from the inside out), and transpersonal (understanding of human development, states and stages of development and consciousness, and various lenses of spirituality and how they interface with psychological development.)
My focus in supervision involves increasing awareness of self and other (including an awareness of transference/counter-transference dynamics) and learning how to use this awareness to understand clients and facilitate their own awareness, understanding, growth and healing.