Supervision for Therapists
Choosing the right supervisor can help you grow from being a good therapist to a great one.
We place a high value on supervision here. Which means all of our supervisors start from a place of having been well supervised themselves.
They’ve had great exposure to a variety of supervisors who are creative and skilled at nurturing developing therapists into their fullest potential. They have all received one on one supervision, group supervision, peer supervision and supervision based on recordings of their work. They are well-versed in growing through role plays, conceptualizations, and navigating their own blocks/parts/aspects of “self of the therapist”.
All of them have completed a supervision course which means they are trained and credentialed to supervise Registered Psychotherapists, Registered Psychotherapists (Qualifying), Registered Social Workers and all who are able to practise psychotherapy in Ontario. They are recognized supervisors with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).
Please click on the supervisor below to read their bio and see a video of them describing their style of supervision and the types of therapy that they know and teach well.
Bjorn’s approach to supervision is relational and process oriented.
Bjorn believes in the idea of parallel processing where if the supervisee is given a space to feel seen, heard and safe, they will also be able to provide that space for their clients to feel seen, heard and safe. Bjorn complements his supervision with developing the supervisee’s self-awareness to identify their own biases and blindspots.
Bjorn’s supervision is informed by Internal Family System (IFS), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) and Narrative Therapy and other experiential therapies.
Bjorn’s hope for supervision is to equip his supervisees with the skills they need to best support their clients and develop their own therapeutic presence in the room.
Supervision is a special place to learn and grow: it’s therapy for your therapy practice! What could be better?
Obviously I love therapy! What might not be so obvious is that I love theory and thinking about thinking. I love the puzzles of the human condition, the ingenious ways we humans survive, and I love helping people thrive.
As your supervisor, I am interested in you, your clients, your experience of the work, and how it is affecting you. Supervision is both a safe place to discuss feeling stuck, as well as the place we can start to do some of the powerful work of un-sticking. Sometimes our work together might serve as a sounding board, and other times it might include role-play, reviewing tapes together, or bringing new theories or concepts into focus in the context of a specific case. Through our collaborative supervision, I want you to feel warmly supported and encouraged to stretch and grow as a practitioner and as an individual.
Valuable and effective supervision is both supportive and growth-oriented. My approach to supervision and therapy is founded in building trust and competency. I lean into relational psychodynamic work and value an integrative model that embraces the diverse experiences and multiple perspectives that are embedded in client work. I have training and experience in the following modalities: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT, Narrative Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) for individuals and families, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), and family mediation.
Supervision is experienced differently depending on the clinical challenges raised by the therapist, as well as the therapist’s experience level. It can be exploratory and reflective, or didactic and directive. It can involve scripting examples and role plays, or reviewing client work more generally to hone in on formulation, intervention and future direction. My intention is for a therapist to leave supervision with: a grounding in their formulation and next steps, knowledge of an approach that had been out of their clinical purview, further questions to revisit with their client, practical resources that may grow their learning, and suggestions/ideas to hold for further thinking.
Jessica ascribes to these three theories for the most optimal supervision process for a developing therapist:
Jessica has a thorough comprehension of these models of therapy:
There are also influences of other experiential therapies and relational psychotherapy in Jessica’s supervision.
Jessica listens well, has strong conceptualizations and is motivated for supervisees to grow to their highest potential. She leads supervisees through experiential exercises (like role plays) to help them successfully bring therapeutic concepts and interventions into therapy in a way that makes sense for them and their developing style.
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