Part of the Whole & Free Series
It is a projected agreement of many Healing Therapist that most mainstream supervisors "buy into" the fact that the therapist should? bring client content to supervision.....At the very center of this, it is considered breaking of confidentiality. Do not misunderstand me. It can be very liberating and beneficial to share such confidences with your supervisor especially when the time feels right or appropriately in certain situations, that the client may have put him/herself or anyone else involved for that matter, in a dangerous or unsafe place.
When the emphasis is on client content too much time (and time is of the essence when people are exploring intense issues and are unhappy) is taken up trying to relay an understanding to a third party. Ethics of any Caring Supervision /Therapy is an ever developing guide and comes from all directions of legislation. Verification and support of the professional standards that you keep! If you refer to my Client Centered page you will see that's a healing therapist's terminal endeavor to be with the client empathically in the moment of issue. It can and does at times bring the counsellor to discover a lot about her client and him/herself. This alone when in regular "support" service, validates that you will need a supervision hour every 8 client hours of working.
To ensure good professional conduct working with supervision models support your code of ethics, legislation an supports therapist relaxation to be yourself as a therapist and to have projected empathic understanding of your clients real meanings, an arduous task at times. This inevitably will "press buttons" (remind you of your own 'stuff') As a Healing Centred counsellor which is nondirective, working with a supervisor whose approach may be directive can only create unease at the very least. Do you not think that this unease in supervision could be detrimental to you and your client's and your relationship, not to mention yourself and your supervisors professional projection!
A FREE FLOW of good will and a safe interaction is needed and this may happen on the surface in many other professional relationships. It is becoming increasingly more and more evident that when the supervisee (Healing Practitioner) thinks and feels in reflection to their supervision, a very subtle unrest has come into form for many supervisee's and they feel unable to use their time in supervision to discuss the real feelings rising between them at a professional level. This supervision time is for you the healing therapist to check where you are with your client, how you develop the positive movement forward, evaluate and assess your professional standards.. On the over view having a supervisor in any claims against your professional standards will support you and show that you have kept a good standard of professional ability. A written contract between you and the supervisor of what is to pass between you and why, is always good practice.
In the a ' healing therapist' world supervision can be most important and it can also feel as bad as it has felt good because you will be exploring yourself and your position as a healing Therapist.. This is what Universal Learning expects of any kind of Therapists and will soon be made legislation as it is already in place for counsellor, Psycho Therapists, Psychologists and psychiatrists.. Good standards of practice are managed this way... All sorts of issues can arise in supervision this is why in every sense the supervisee brings him/herself to supervision. Please let me make it clear. Supervision is not healing counselling although it can be healing... .what happens in Client/Person Centred supervision, is that you as the supervisee will grow and develop as I your supervisor may do!
You will work through what is "bugging you" what is "coming up" for you and
how this particular client/session is "affecting" your role as a therapist. Where you may be experiencing your client within the therapeutic process etc. And many other interactive issues that you as a therapist may need to explore and work through. Of course your client is the center of the therapeutic relationship. It is only professional to keep a check on YOU! Because you are important! Thus the supervision helps sort out what is supervision and what you as a person may need to refer to your own counselling. If you feel composed and centred it will only have a "Knock on effect" to ward your client
Gaynor Linnecor
IN EVERY SENSE OF THE TERM, THE COUNSELLOR IS NOT BRINGING THE CLIENT TO SUPERVISION
HE/SHE IS BRINGING HIM/HERSELF.
In Client/Person Centred supervision, instead of the counsellor 'bringing the client' to supervision, the counsellor brings him/herself. With focus on the counsellor rather than the client, the kinds of questions which are raised in Client/Person Centred Supervision might be drawn from the following.
*How do I (the counsellor) behave in relation to this client?
*What do I feel in relation to this client?
*What do I think when I work with this client?
*What goes on "underneath" for me?
*What parts of myself am I using with this client?
*Am I changing (using different parts of me) in relation to this client?
*What parts of myself am I not using in relation to this client?
*What is the nature of my empathy with this client?
*Are there any blocks to my empathy with this client?
*How is my warmth with this client?
*Is my warmth different with this client than with others?
*Do I have a tendency towards "conditionality" with this client?
*In what ways am I being incongruent with this client?
*Am I feeling any problems in relation to my contract with this client?*Am I experiencing any "boundary" problems with this client?
*What am I learning in relationship with this client?
*What are my assumptions about how the client is experiencing me?
*How am I checking on the clients experiencing?
*What is my judgement of this clients locus of evaluation?
*How is my judgement of the clients locus of evaluation affecting mycommunication with the client?
The reader will notice that only the 19th of the 20 questions is about the client. The extent to which the client is externalized or internalized is the client variable which will mediate the Client/Person Centred counsellors communication. All the other questions represent entries in the counsellors "focusing on the therapeutic relationship". None of the work of supervision is based on biographical material about the client. With this different approach taken to counselling supervision within the Client/Person Centred approach agencies might feel reassured to the issues of confidentiality and anonymity. In every sense of the term, the counsellor IS NOT bringing the client to supervision she/he is bringing him/herself.
Ref.:Person-Centred Counselling Training-Dave Mearns
(Sage publications) ISBN 0-7619-5291-8
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