As mentioned in Healing Yourself as You Heal Others, often the work you do as a therapist with clients leads you to discover and face your own personal wounds. This personal journey is essentially a requirement to avoid having your own issues interfere with the therapy you are conducting with your clients via counter-transference that […]
Parallel Processes, Boundaries & Authenticity
This week, I listened to a very interesting podcast from the University of Buffalo’s School of Social Work (UBSSW) addressing the topic of the supervisor – supervisee relationship in clinical social work settings. This podcast (Living Proof episode #5) is titled Models of Supervision: Parallel Processes and Honest Relationships and in it Dr. Lawrence Shulman, […]
Healing Yourself as You Heal Others
About two weeks ago, I completed my finals and second year placement for the first semester. Since then I’ve been enjoying some rest and relaxation (R & R) which is especially nice after having had several intense weeks. Today, I will cover the topic of the supervisor-supervisee relationship because it is a particularly important one […]