Thank you for joining me here…
I have put together this page as an outline, if you are seeking arts based clinical supervision, to help you decide if you feel we may be a good fit with each other.
For all new supervisees, I offer a free of charge thirty-minute preliminary call, as a space for us to connect. This meeting, either in person, online or over the telephone, can be used to discuss what type of supervision you are looking for and as an opportunity for me to answer any questions that you may have.
My intent is to create and foster a supervision space that enables you to deeply reflect upon your therapeutic work, which combines and promotes your own wellbeing and personal development too. I aim to ensure you feel supported to deliver a service and a support to your client/s, whilst taking good care of yourself.
My approach aims to offer opportunities to explore:
– Verbal discourse, which is unrushed
– The multiple dimensions to your work and your practice
– Relational dynamics of who you are to your client/s
– What conscious and subconscious materials is being brought
– What is held in the transferences and countertransferences
– The wider contexts to your work
– Parallel processes that may be at play
– What you may be holding about your client, their family, or group and how this relates to the organisational frames that the work is held within
I offer an empathic art based supervisory space, as a space to bring what you need…
I trust implicitly the value that creativity, images and art making centrally hold in reflecting upon our often challenging and difficult work. By offering you an authentic unconditional positive regard for your practice and skills, allows us both to remain and stay curious within the work.
Brown. Et. Al (2008) discusses the importance of using a client’s artwork within supervision, like having direct contact with the client in a way that verbal reporting has no access, thus bringing the client into the transitional area of the supervision space. There is an established body of research to support the value of utilising response art making within supervision. Nash. (2109) remarks that response art in supervision serves as a place to facilitate an assimilation of internalised experiences of unconscious interactions to create a reflective dialogue that has the capacity to hold and contain feelings around the work, in relation to the cathected matter interjected into them.
Carpendale (2002) also supports the use of response art within supervision as techniques to uncover the essences of situations, to allow for investigations into subjective experiences of things in the world and to serve as a reflective foci. Fish (2011) has also described response art making as a potent tool for processing professional issues in a bid to advance clinical work as well as being a “form of listening that uses imagery as well as words.” (Fish, 2011, p.76).
Schreibman and Chilton, (2012) after setting up a supervisor and supervisee dyad of appreciative artistic enquiry, describe the importance of strength of the supervisory relationship and that through the exploration of their relationship were able to identify the noticeable cascade effect of positive regard from supervisor to supervisee to client.
If you would like to book a space for us to share, you can email me here.
The Small Studio’s – ‘Supervision Alliance Contract’ also contains further details about working together. You can access this document here.
I look forward to hearing from you…
Brown, C, Meyerowitx-Katz, J and Ryde, J. (2008) ‘Thinking with image making in supervision.’ – International Journal of Art Therapy. 8:2 pp.71-78
Carpendale, M. (2002) ‘Getting to the Underbelly: Phenomenology and Art Therapy Supervision.’ – Canadian Art Therapy Association Journal. 15:2 pp.2-6
Fish, B. ‘Formative Evaluation Research of Art-Based Supervision in Art Therapy Training.’ – Journal of the American Art Therapy Society. 25:2 pp.70-77
Nash, G. (2019) ‘Response art in art therapy practice and research with the focus on reflect piece imagery.’ -International Journal of Art Therapy. 25:1 pp.1-10
Schreibman, R and Chilton, G. (2012) ‘Small Waterfalls in Art Therapy Supervision: A Poetic Appreciative Inquiry.’ -Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. 29:4 pp.188-191
*all artwork on this page were completed in response the ‘Supervision Training for Arts Therapists’ run by The London Art Therapy Centre.