Come As the Therapist You Are
One of the things I wish more therapists heard early in their careers is this:
You do not have to know everything to be a good therapist.
You’re going to have sessions where you feel like you really helped someone. You’re also going to have sessions where you walk away thinking, What in the world just happened in there?
Both belong in supervision.
I want supervision to be a place where you can be honest about your work—the things you’re proud of, the things you’re questioning, the clients who challenge you, and the moments when you wonder whether you have any idea what you’re doing.
You don’t have to impress me.
You don’t have to have the perfect clinical answer.
You just have to be willing to be curious.
How I Approach LCSW Supervision
Yes, we are going to talk about the important clinical stuff: ethics, assessment, diagnosis, documentation, treatment planning, boundaries, risk, and the responsibilities that come with being a clinical social worker.
But I don’t believe good supervision is just about reviewing cases and checking boxes.
I’m interested in you as a therapist.
What happens inside of you when a client shuts down?
What happens when someone is angry with you?
What about the client you find yourself worrying about after work—or the one who pushes every button you have?
What do you do when you know the textbook answer but something in your gut is telling you to slow down and pay attention?
Those are the conversations I love having in supervision.
We may talk about countertransference, nervous system responses, imposter syndrome, burnout, boundaries, mistakes, intuition, clinical judgment, and the complicated reality of being a human being who spends their days sitting with other human beings.
I’m not interested in teaching you how to become me.
I want to help you figure out how to become you as a therapist—with your own voice, your own strengths, your own clinical instincts, and a strong ethical foundation underneath all of it.
EMDR Consultation — Something I’m Growing IntoEMDR has become one of the most meaningful parts of my clinical work, and the more I learn about it, the more I want to learn.
I am an EMDR Certified Therapist and am currently working toward becoming an EMDR Consultant.
I’m especially interested in what happens after the basic EMDR training, when you’re sitting with an actual client thinking:
Okay...but what do I do now?
Because real people don’t always follow protocols neatly.
They dissociate. They intellectualize. They can’t find a target. They have ten targets. They say they’re “fine” while their nervous system is telling a completely different story. They have complicated relationships, attachment wounds, grief, shame, developmental trauma, and experiences that don’t fit easily into one category.
That’s the part of EMDR that fascinates me.
I’m interested in helping clinicians think through those complicated moments while staying grounded in the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model and respecting the person—not just the protocol.
As I continue working toward EMDR Consultant status, I’m also continuing to deepen my own understanding of EMDR and exploring how I want consultation to eventually become part of my practice.
Mostly, I Want This to Be a Place Where You Can Think.
Therapists spend so much time being the person who is supposed to know what to do.
Supervision and consultation should be somewhere you get to say:
“I don’t know.”
“Something about this doesn’t feel right.”
“I think I missed something.”
“Can I tell you what happened and see what you think?”
Or even:
“I think I know what I want to do, but I need to talk it through.”
Bring me those cases.
Bring me your questions.
Bring me the session you can’t stop thinking about.
Bring me the thing you’re afraid is a stupid question.
We’ll slow it down, get curious about it, and figure out what might be happening.
Because becoming a good therapist isn’t about reaching a point where you never have questions.
It’s about becoming someone who knows how to stay curious enough to keep asking them.
Fees:
LCSW Supervision $90 for individual and $25 for group
EMDR Consultation: $150/hour individual and $50 for group
One of the things I wish more therapists heard early in their careers is this:
You do not have to know everything to be a good therapist.
You’re going to have sessions where you feel like you really helped someone. You’re also going to have sessions where you walk away thinking, What in the world just happened in there?
Both belong in supervision.
I want supervision to be a place where you can be honest about your work—the things you’re proud of, the things you’re questioning, the clients who challenge you, and the moments when you wonder whether you have any idea what you’re doing.
You don’t have to impress me.
You don’t have to have the perfect clinical answer.
You just have to be willing to be curious.
How I Approach LCSW Supervision
Yes, we are going to talk about the important clinical stuff: ethics, assessment, diagnosis, documentation, treatment planning, boundaries, risk, and the responsibilities that come with being a clinical social worker.
But I don’t believe good supervision is just about reviewing cases and checking boxes.
I’m interested in you as a therapist.
What happens inside of you when a client shuts down?
What happens when someone is angry with you?
What about the client you find yourself worrying about after work—or the one who pushes every button you have?
What do you do when you know the textbook answer but something in your gut is telling you to slow down and pay attention?
Those are the conversations I love having in supervision.
We may talk about countertransference, nervous system responses, imposter syndrome, burnout, boundaries, mistakes, intuition, clinical judgment, and the complicated reality of being a human being who spends their days sitting with other human beings.
I’m not interested in teaching you how to become me.
I want to help you figure out how to become you as a therapist—with your own voice, your own strengths, your own clinical instincts, and a strong ethical foundation underneath all of it.
EMDR Consultation — Something I’m Growing IntoEMDR has become one of the most meaningful parts of my clinical work, and the more I learn about it, the more I want to learn.
I am an EMDR Certified Therapist and am currently working toward becoming an EMDR Consultant.
I’m especially interested in what happens after the basic EMDR training, when you’re sitting with an actual client thinking:
Okay...but what do I do now?
Because real people don’t always follow protocols neatly.
They dissociate. They intellectualize. They can’t find a target. They have ten targets. They say they’re “fine” while their nervous system is telling a completely different story. They have complicated relationships, attachment wounds, grief, shame, developmental trauma, and experiences that don’t fit easily into one category.
That’s the part of EMDR that fascinates me.
I’m interested in helping clinicians think through those complicated moments while staying grounded in the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model and respecting the person—not just the protocol.
As I continue working toward EMDR Consultant status, I’m also continuing to deepen my own understanding of EMDR and exploring how I want consultation to eventually become part of my practice.
Mostly, I Want This to Be a Place Where You Can Think.
Therapists spend so much time being the person who is supposed to know what to do.
Supervision and consultation should be somewhere you get to say:
“I don’t know.”
“Something about this doesn’t feel right.”
“I think I missed something.”
“Can I tell you what happened and see what you think?”
Or even:
“I think I know what I want to do, but I need to talk it through.”
Bring me those cases.
Bring me your questions.
Bring me the session you can’t stop thinking about.
Bring me the thing you’re afraid is a stupid question.
We’ll slow it down, get curious about it, and figure out what might be happening.
Because becoming a good therapist isn’t about reaching a point where you never have questions.
It’s about becoming someone who knows how to stay curious enough to keep asking them.
Fees:
LCSW Supervision $90 for individual and $25 for group
EMDR Consultation: $150/hour individual and $50 for group
