Consultation/Clinical Supervision
*Note: at this time I am not an approved supervisor, meaning that I cannot sign off on hours toward your license. Consultation of your practice and deepening your method in the psychotherapeutic relationship is the primary aim of working with me. From here on, I will be referring to clinical consultation/supervision solely as supervision/supervisees.
Psychoanalytic therapy
Psychoanalytic therapy is a deep, expansive, and “adventurous” theoretical framework that offers a method and field-of-view when thinking about the experience of the therapeutic couple. It involves the therapist as a person onto whom the patient projects material, evokes feelings in, creates a dyad with, and more. In essence, the therapist is the person with whom the patient’s life comes alive. Psychoanalytic therapy is creative, artistic, confusing, frustrating, profound, and ordinary.
I hope to inspire you to open your mind through no small amount of courage to wrestle with the challenge of being a person, with the ultimate hope that you get to create.
When working with me, I am here to help you expand your mind and deepen your practice. I may wear many hats – meaning that I may operate as a therapist, mentor, or guardian. For example, I may offer what I imagine or picture about your patients and your work, ask questions about you, invite curiosity about what is coming up, or even simply remain silent and wait to allow your mind to work out something.
There may be times in which you have feelings toward or about me – I encourage you to bring them to supervision. Ultimately how supervision goes is up to you; this is your practice and your work. What you choose to bring, reflect on, expand on, wrestle with, dismiss, reject, etc. is up to you! I am here to support your growth and mind.
Logistics
$150/50 minutes – I meet with supervisees for 50 minute sessions; this gives us the ability to take our time to reflect, explore, and to allow for deep material to come up and be processed. I am happy to meet with supervisees weekly or every other week. This provides enough contact to regularly have support, reflection, and expansion of your mind.
Once we have come to an agreement on a time that works for both of us, that appointment time is held exclusively for you. You are financially responsible for each of your appointments, regardless of whether you attend. This is the way in which you support me as I support you and your growth. There will be times in which I am not able to attend. In such events, you will receive advanced notice of my scheduled absence and no payment is expected.
*Note: if the work with me is cost-prohibitive, I am happy to consider a sliding-scale
I have had the pleasure and privilege of having exposure to great teachers; whether through human relationship or through pages and works. Below are some of the souls that I feel most impacted by in this work. I hope you peruse and find something that piques your interest.
Contributions toward my “container” in this work:
D. Michael Louderback
Al Casale
D. Winnicott
W. Bion
Judith Mitrani
Michael Eigen
N.Symington
Thomas Ogden
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
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