What we’ve said about Supervision

“The ones that I found the most helpful, it was like this blend of therapy and supervision. This supervisor would ask me questions about It wasn't just answering clinical questions as much as it was my own emotions to patients”

“I think a good supervision invites with open ended questioning and self reflection for the clinician being supervised. If that's not present. It's going to be a little bit limited in utility”

“your patient's not really here. So, you know, if you're worried they're going to explode or crumble, if you say this, they won't because they're not really here, but we can play with it”

“the more mistakes you're making, the more you're learning, period. So like in group supervisions, in these things, like ask dumb questions, ask questions that you think like I should know this already”

“To me, it's the most practical training. And I feel like I approach, I use the skills so much in medication management in not just therapy”

“So the advice I always would give was find a mentor or a supervisor who's been through these things and can help make sense of them with you”

“It's getting supervision, postgraduate supervision, coaching, mentoring. Even if you have to pay for it, you find the right person. It can make a pretty considerable difference, but get your money's worth”

“one of the only other avenues would be supervision, a peer discussion or support group for clinicians, or of course, emotion focused talk therapy, psychotherapy”

“as providers, it's important to really reflect on. what it is that we're doing, the reason for what we're doing. It's important to have supervisors, to have our own therapists, to be able to reflect on”

“Unless you have a very clear idea of what you're doing, I highly recommend that you seek supervision”

“just because I read a paper on some deep psychoanalysis three times a week and how that therapist responded to sexual transference doesn't mean I do a half-baked attempt at recreating what that intervention was”

“There's a concept called the parallel process, even, where in a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic supervision, what happens within the patient-therapist interaction will begin to replicate itself within the supervision session, and you have to manage that”

“the temperament of a therapist typically is open, accepting, non-confrontational. And if you don't have this good conceptualization of the importance of setting boundaries, I see early therapists and psychiatrists really struggle with setting boundaries”

“many, many supervisors purposefully ignore personality and formulation and diagnosis. They purposefully ignore it. I think there's stigma”

“every person I've supervised, when they say they're working until 8 p.m. or whatever, I go through their emails and I'm like, this is way too much. This is way too much. This is way too friendly”