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In its website, the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrated Psychotherapy (IAHIP) expresses that \u201ccare for the client is at the core of supervision\u201d.\u00a0 My wish as a supervisor is to provide a regular support, oversight, and learning, with an in-depth reflection on supervisees\u2019 practice that safeguards and upholds the standards of psychotherapy.<\/p>\n
I approach supervision as a collaborative relationship, with the view to make sense of what is presented of supervisees\/clients processes.\u00a0 I use the Seven-eyed model as one supervisory format.\u00a0 I have found that it informs, shapes and supports supervisees with the direction they wish for their supervision.<\/p>\n
My supervision training is a level 9 Certificate in Clinical Supervision with The Gestalt Institute of Ireland and SETU.\u00a0 While my core theoretical knowledge is Gestalt\u2019s theory and methodology, I feel competent to be able to support supervisees who are not Gestalt trained, as my knowledge and interests extend to other psychotherapy practices and theories.\u00a0 They are inclusive of Lowen\u2019s Character Structures; Bainbridge Cohen, Frank and La Barre\u2019s Somatic and Early Developmental Movements; Trauma and Neuroscience, Siegel\u2019s Window of Tolerance; Bowlby\u2019s Attachment Theories, and Bern\u2019s Transactional Analysis.<\/p>\n
A part of my supervisory methodology includes creative experimentation for which I use symbols, imagery, drawing, movement, the sand tray\u2026\u00a0 My intention is to expand supervisees\u2019 awareness of their therapeutic work, and to encourage them to grow their own intuitive creativity.\u00a0 Erich Fromm says that \u201cCreativity requires the courage to let go of certainties<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 I integrate to my therapy and supervision work, the view that \u201ccultivating uncertainty<\/em>\u201d (Staemmler) is a necessary focus from which supervisees\u2019 own creative therapeutic methodology can become a supportive element for clients\u2019 growth.<\/p>\n As a supervisee myself, I learnt that until I was able to reach further into the depth of my countertransference, I couldn\u2019t fully meet clients within the authentic contact I was hoping to create.\u00a0 Therefore, I like to offer the opportunity to allow, at times and with boundaried caution, a personal therapy approach in supervision to support working through countertransference processes.\u00a0 My intentionality is to help reorganise and restore in the here-and-now the therapist\u2019s position and agency within their relational dance with clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In its website, the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrated Psychotherapy (IAHIP) expresses that \u201ccare for the client is at the core of supervision\u201d.\u00a0 My wish as a supervisor is to provide a regular support, oversight, and learning, with an in-depth reflection on supervisees\u2019 practice that safeguards and upholds the standards of psychotherapy. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gestaltpsychotherapy.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gestaltpsychotherapy.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gestaltpsychotherapy.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gestaltpsychotherapy.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gestaltpsychotherapy.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.gestaltpsychotherapy.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/www.gestaltpsychotherapy.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1169\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gestaltpsychotherapy.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}