Supervision

Supervision is a space for thinking together about the therapeutic process. It allows us to look closely at the difficulties that arise in clinical work, to widen our perspective, and to develop the way we understand the patient and the therapeutic relationship.

I offer individual supervision as well as a seminar-supervision group for psychotherapists interested in deepening their own clinical craft and developing clinical reflection.

The group’s work combines the discussion of clinical material with reflection on theoretical questions. An important element of the seminars is reading texts together and exploring different ways of understanding the therapeutic process. Psychodynamic psychotherapy and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) hold a particular place in this work.

Supervisory work gives room both to the analysis of what the patient says and to reflection on emotions, on the therapeutic relationship, and on the experiences that emerge in the course of therapy. Those aspects of experience that remain unspoken, yet still shape the therapeutic process, are of equal importance.

Supervision is not only a means of resolving immediate clinical difficulties. It is also a space for developing clinical independence and greater freedom in drawing on theoretical knowledge, experience, and one’s own emotional responses in therapeutic work.

As I understand it, supervision also supports the development of the therapist’s identity. It allows one to gradually recognise one’s own way of working, one’s areas of interest, strengths and limitations, and to build an increasingly conscious and individual clinical practice.