Supervision & Consulting
I offer systemic supervision and consulting services. My approach to supervision is based in Harry Aponte’s Person-of-the-Therapist (POTT) approach to supervision. This approach embraces therapists as “wounded healers”, meaning that we all have lived experiences that inspire us to support others as therapists. Embracing and normalizing the woundedness within each of us through supervision allows clearer guidance for how we can access and use these parts of our personhood as wisdom in the room with clients.
Is this approach right for me?
I was originally skeptical of the POTT approach myself, but I found through participation as a supervisee, that this approach was transformative to my clinical work. We all have a core struggle as therapists that we tend to seek in our clients which leads many therapists to experience imposter syndrome, self-imposed pressure to perform, and feelings of failure when we cannot help clients who mirror our woundedness. This approach can help you to lean into this part of yourself and better understand when and how to use it to develop a sense of self-mastery.
Which therapeutic models can you supervise?
The short answer is any! POTT is a trans-theoretical approach to mastering your approach rather than a model. I have extensive training in attachment-based approaches to therapy, and systemic therapy (i.e., relationship & family therapy). However, I also have training in behavioral therapies (namely CBT & DBT) and offer supervision for these approaches as well.
Commitment to Inclusion
As a member of a marginalized community, I know first-hand how painful and even traumatic experiences of stigma, microaggressions, and bigotry are. This work is particularly poignant at this time in our history wherein marginalized identities are targets of social derision at institutional levels. My goal is to provide a supervision setting that is actively anti-racist, celebrates diverse identities, and does not tolerate bigotry.
My inclusion & diversity training includes a doctoral fellowship in SAMHSA’s Minority Fellowship Program. This program was developed to, “(1) increase the knowledge of mental and/or substance use disorder behavioral health professionals on issues related to prevention, treatment, and recovery support for individuals who are from racial and ethnic minority populations and have a mental or substance use disorder; (2) improve the quality of mental and substance use disorder prevention and treatment services delivered to racial and ethnic minority populations; and (3) increase the number of culturally competent mental and substance use disorders professionals who teach, administer services, conduct research, and provide direct mental and/or substance use disorder services to racial and ethnic minority populations.” (SAMHSA’s webpage).
