Ongoing consultation is foundational to both improving your work and enhancing your career as a clinician. I offer supervision and consultation for clinicians wanting to improve their capacity to work with patients at a deeper level, address impasses and other clinical difficulties, and expand their scope of practice.
Many clinicians struggle with establishing a viable treatment frame, maintaining boundaries, and working with various transference-countertransference developments in treatment. Problems in these areas can haunt treatments and limit the possibility of making significant impact. Consultation is essential to helping you better understand what’s happening in the work and learning how to use the therapy relationship dynamics in the service of the treatment. Even for those not interested in working from a psychoanalytic perspective, a psychoanalytic conceptualization of the treatment offers a firm foundation that informs interventions from other approaches.
Many patients seeking treatment are high-functioning and experience personality-based problems that evade overt indication. Problems for this patient population are often more nuanced and subtle and require a more sophisticated understanding of the dynamics at play. Many such patients find cognitive behavioral modalities and other skills-based approaches to treatment either superficial or overly simplistic.
Professional consultation usually happens weekly in either one-on-one or group sessions. We either review a single case in depth over time or review new cases each week depending on your needs and preferences. Each consultation relationship is unique, and we discuss your goals and objectives for the consultation as we begin. Sometimes, people are simply looking for something less involved – a single consultation to help resolve an especially challenging situation in treatment. I’m happy to offer these as needed. I often work with the following types of professionals:
I offer supervision and consultation for clinicians wanting to improve their capacity to work with patients at a deeper level, address impasses and other clinical difficulties, and expand their scope of practice.