Supervision & consultation

Traditional models of supervision often position the supervisor as an authority; the one who evaluates, corrects, and instructs. I work differently. I believe the therapist in the room has the most immediate knowledge of their patient, and that their felt sense of what is alive in the work deserves primacy. My role is to enter that experience alongside them: to listen closely to how the patient comes through in the therapist's own affective and relational responses, and to bring my own experience and reflective presence into dialogue with theirs.

A therapist's subjectivity is not something to be corrected or managed; it is one of the primary portals into what is happening with the patient. I try to meet that subjectivity with an equal openness about my own. In this way, supervision becomes a space where two subjectivities meet. It is often in that meeting that something otherwise hidden comes into view — a lapse in attunement, an enactment, a place where the treatment has become stuck, or a place where it has unexpectedly come alive.

Together, we can develop a more honest relationship to our own humanity, including the places where our own histories inevitably enter the work. This kind of self-knowledge allows us to remain more closely and courageously connected to our patients — and, ultimately, creates greater freedom for the treatment to move forward.

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