Psychodynamic Supervision

We will turn the traditional supervision process around. Instead of the supervisor as expert, we will ground ourselves in the knowledge and expertise you have as the clinician. You are the one in the relationship with your client. You are the one experiencing the work. Let’s foster and support what you already know in the service of deepening your clinical work with your clients.

Psychoanalysis has a trend of bypassing the body and ignoring both the therapist and the client’s embodied experience. This can often show up as mistakenly only understanding the body or illness as a metaphor. It also comes in the form of only valuing words/thoughts and disappearing the body. Psychodynamic supervision will include emphasizing what’s happening somatically in the work. We will integrate body-centered practices originating from mindfulness approaches.

We will not ignore your client’s intersecting and complex social and cultural identities. We will not ignore the larger social world occurring outside the therapy space. Supervision will be a space to honor and deepen your understanding of your client’s social identities and how that intersects with your identities as the therapist. We will identify ways to integrate the exploration of race, class, gender, sexuality, and other power dynamics into your clinical work.

My work draws from multiple psychoanalytic schools and theories, but is firmly rooted in relational psychoanalysis. Supervision will allow us to explore multiple psychoanalytic theories and viewpoints.

The heart and soul of the psychodynamic therapy process is the connection and bond created between therapist and client. Psychodynamic supervision will explore the dynamics of your relationship with your client. We will explore issues involving transference and countertransference, patterns in the dyad, and enactments.