Clinical Supervision for
Psychotherapists and Clinical Counsellors
I offer clinical supervision for Registered Clinical Counsellors (RCC) in BC and Psychotherapists (RP) and Qualifying RPs in Ontario. You have the option of working in more traditional verbal supervision, or to integrate music into your supervision experience.
All sessions take place online.
How Can Clinical Counsellors and Psychotherapists Benefit?
All mental health practitioners need support from time to time. Someone to remind us of why we entered our profession and to encourage us to bring our unique gifts to our work. To help us process challenging material that clients bring to us. To alleviate some of the isolation that we can feel when continually holding and caring for other people’s pain.
My style of supervision offers a supportive place to process emotional, psychological, and embodied elements of your work that might not be easily described in words.
I support clinicians using a blend of theoretical orientations with an emphasis on person-centered, CBT/ACT, music psychotherapy, and self-compassion work. My approach is further contextualized by social justice perspectives, including climate-aware therapy, intersectional
feminist therapy, and queer therapy.
What can I help with?
My goal is to help you be the therapist that you are excited to be, whatever that means to you. I work with professionals who align with diverse approaches to health and well-being. To meet your needs, I draw on my extensive professional experiences, scholarly work, and foundational understandings of major approaches to health and well-being.
Please reach out if you would like to explore a potential fit for clinical supervision.
What happens during a supervision session that involves music?
Integrating music into supervision is always optional. When doing so, we will generally address your concern in a talk-music-talk model. First, we talk about the challenge you’re bringing in. Then, we address the challenge in music.
For example, we might explore and listen to music that speaks to a client you’re finding challenging to work with, or we might create an individualized guided imagery and music experience to address burnout.
We then talk about the musical experience and connect it to the concern you brought in.
The purpose of this is to creatively process clinical material.
A bit more about my experience in this field.
As a supervisor, I view it as a privilege to hold space for challenging situations, listen well and offer unconditional positive regard. I am familiar with common and not-so-common concerns and I know how to listen and help.
I bring my extensive clinical supervision experience over the past 18 years to these sessions, where I have supervised over 100 professionals, interns, and students. I hold space for the most challenging cases and am here to help you get to the heart of the issue and address your needs safely and effectively.
I will support you using a blend of theoretical orientations, including psychotherapy and clinical counselling sensibilities with an emphasis on person-centered (Rogerian), music psychotherapy, and mindful self-compassion work. My approach is further contextualized by social justice perspectives including eco therapy, intersectional feminist therapy, and queer therapy. I am also trained in CBT and draw on that approach for those who desire it.
Seabrook Music Therapy operates on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, which includes Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. This land is also Treaty territory of the Williams Treaties and is now home to many First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. I am grateful for the opportunity to live, work, and play on this land.