Supervision at my Waterbury, VT office, or virtually via Doxy or Zoom
My Guidance Approach:
One of my strengths as a supervisor is the ability to apply multiple therapeutic lenses to any given case. This means I can help you experiment with different ways of working and conceptualizing, and help you apply the approaches that feel like the best fit for you, as a clinician. In addition to supporting the development of your own clinical perspective, I teach and supervise using the model I developed, Compassionate Authenticity.
The Compassionate Authenticity model developed organically out of my therapeutic work with clients. Time and time again, with alarming consistency, I found myself sitting with clients (and friends, and family members, and myself) who reported silencing or adjusting their needs, wishes, desires, and feelings in the name of taking care of others, or being who they thought they were “supposed” to be. But the state of flatness, resentment, and disconnection that resulted was certainly not a sign of well-being, nor was it a gift to the people for whom they were presumably shrinking.

I began to notice that three particular clinical goals became the recurring themes of my therapeutic work with clients:
- Increasing self-acceptance and emotional tolerance, allowing clients to be more fully present with themselves and their internal experience;
- Differentiation within significant relationships, allowing clients to become increasingly comfortable with other peoples’ emotional experience without feeling responsible for them; and
- Redefining care-taking to support authenticity as a compassionate act.
Compassionate Authenticity is a treatment model that can be used with an eclectic range of clinical modalities, because many approaches to psychotherapy value the journey to authenticity (for example, consider the Humanistic concept of self-actualization, Interpersonal Neurobiologists’ concept of integration, and the Internal Family Systems concept of the core self).
The model allows you to utilize the techniques that are an authentic fit for you as a clinician, while offering a map to guide the treatment process and deepen your transformative work with clients.
If you are interested in learning more about the Compassionate Authenticity model and how it can be applied to work with clients, please check out my article in the February 2014 (Vol. 29, #1) Special Issue of the Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy. The issue is entitled “Extraordinary Sex Therapy,” and my article is entitled: “Compassionate Authenticity: a Treatment Model for Working with Women with Low Libido.”
What I offer:
Individual supervision:
Clinical supervision to pre-licensed masters and doctoral level clinicians who are building hours for independent practice, and for independently practicing providers interested in clinical and professional development. I am highly available to my supervisees, offering extra phone and written consultation as needed to help you feel confident and comfortable as you develop your private practice.
Group supervision:
Small group discussions, topic explorations, and case presentations.
Continuing Education:
Additional Training on topics of interest to my supervisee group. CE hours available.
Community in the world of private practice:
My supervisees are highly engaged, curious, thoughtful professionals who provide not only excellent services to clients, but a strong network of collegial support to each other.
Teaching the teachers:
I provide supervision and consultation to other supervisors to help them develop effective supervisory skills, confer about complex cases and supervisory relationships, and develop into their own leadership capacities.
Workshops
I offer workshops and presentations in support of authentic development on a range of topics. Past workshops include:
Tools for Joyful Living: Authentic Motherhood
Tools for Joyful Living: Be Your Authentic Self
Tools for Joyful Living: Down with Resentment, Up with Appreciation
Tools for Joyful Living: Reawaken your Sensual Desire
4-D Wheel: Sexual Healing and Discovery Workshops for Women
4-D Wheel: Reawaken Your Creative Vibrancy
Find Your Authentic Self: A Day of Transformation and Healing
Getting Back in the S*A*K — Sex After Kids
Energy Management for Clinicians