Accurate empathy is one of the common factors. Let’s discuss how to use it, when to use it and how to improve our delivery of it.
January 2022 Clinical Supervision Topic: Goal Consensus
What do you want for your clients? It’s so important to reflect on goal consensus, because it’s often where things can go awry, and also where alliance can quickly be built (or re-built).
LCSW ASWB Exam Preparation Resources
I run monthly clinical supervision groups focused on the ASWB LCSW exam. Check out the resources we use.
December 2021 Clinical Supervision Topic: Expectations
How does your client explain their problem? How do they expect the work you do together will help? Let’s explore expectations together.
November 2021 Clinical Supervision Topic: Cultural and Identity Adaptation
We’re digging in a bit more to understand our client’s identities and cultures, in order to more effectively adapt our approach.
October 2021 Clinical Supervision Topic: Self-Compassion
We’re reviewing the three principles of self-compassion (according to Kristen Neff’s work) and discussing how to implement it for ourselves as professionals, and for our clients too.
Sept 2021 Clinical Supervision Topic: Eliciting Feedback
Our client’s opinion on the therapeutic relationship is a better predictor of progress. Us knowing their opinion further increases the odds of positive outcomes. How do we get that crucial information in an effective way?
August 2021 Clinical Supervision Topic: Therapist Effect
Building therapeutic alliance across a range of clients, expressing professional self-doubt, utilizing interpersonal skills, and practicing your skills…all improve the therapist effect.
July 2021 Clinical Supervision Topic: Congruence and Genuineness
How do we show up as our truest, most authentic selves in the work? This month we’re exploring this important common factor.
June 2021 Clinical Supervision Topic: Race, Power, Privilege and Oppression
A year after George Floyd’s death, we’ll take a deeper dive into how we’re addressing race, power, privilege and oppression in our clinical work.
Our Co-Constructed MASTER List of Therapeutic Alliance Tools
All month I asked all of you in supervision to tell me your secrets about building a therapeutic alliance. Here is the master list!
May 2021 Clinical Supervision Topic: Unconditional Positive Regard
Like all common factors, unconditional positive regard must be at the heart of your evidence-based practice in order to lead to more positive outcomes.