Ongoing learning, self-reflection, and skill building is part of continually enhancing our clinnical confidence in our service delivery. Self-care as a therapist is a required part of this journey to preventing burnout as a helper and healer. Clinical supervision and support around running a business is also part of self-care as a therapist in private practice.
Clinical Supervision & Consultation Services
Shelley is an Facilitator, Speaker, Social Worker, and Clinical Supervisor.
Learning is part of committing to self-growth and living. Investing in ourselves is a priority for clinical skill growth, confidence, and to prevent burnout as a therapist.
Are you feeling stressed out at work, and find yourself falling into toxic work patterns, feeling like an imposter, or workplace dynamics? Maybe you work in private practice, and are struggling with the business side of running your clinical practice. Seeking support and mentorship with your business is a valid form of help. As an experienced business owner with a private practice I have expertise and ideas about how to strengthen and organize our business details to support our ability to focus on what matters most: the clinical side of the practice.
Stress in the work we do is a real, and a valid experience that can negatively impact your wellbeing. Contributing to increased illness, and overall stress in your life. It weighs on us, leading to us questioning our career decisions, and feeling like you just can’t keep going like this.
Financial stress, needing clarity about finances, and being able to develop and maintain a profitable business is possible as Social Worker. There are also ethical considerations, and discussions to work through as part of the process of growth.
Curious to learn more about how you can reduce workplace stress, build your confidence with the work you do, and feel more balance with your business and clinical work.... Then I personally invite you to read more about the services offered below.
Common Reasons to Seek Supervision
Navigating uncertainty with new experiences, and clinical challenges that arise.
1
As part of competence with practicing psychotherapy and counselling services, it is recommended that we seek out clinical supervision and consultation where needed. Regardless of how many years we have been in practice, there are always benefits to accessing clinical supervision and consultation to ensure we are supported with complex presentation of practice issues that arise.
Navigating our own reactions (emotionally, psychologically, moral injury, burnout, compassion fatigue, and chronic illness) while trying to balance being a business owner.
2
As humans being in a clinical helping role, we encounter own experiences, triggers, and reactions that deserve space to be held to process and navigate as a way that enhances our ability to clinically show up in both helpful and ethical ways to our clients.
Support with implementing new clinical interventions and modalities after completing a training.
3
The curiosity to learn more and new techniques to provide clinical intervention is something we commonly experience. The process to integrating new skills and interventions into our practice requires ongoing supervision and support beyond learning both directly and indirectly with formal and informal studying.
Navigating money challenges and decisions with confidence through imposter syndrome in practice.
4
Our relationship with money can be complex, and also is a core component of our business success as private practice owners. There are ways that social workers can be influenced by money beliefs while working in the helping profession which can be a source of stress and benefit from support.
Transitioning from a safety net as a student or being in a group practice setting into your own single private practice.
5
The transition from being a student, learning, shadowing, and having consistent access to support to then being independent with practicing brings up significant anxiety and clinical supervision can be an asset to supporting competence with ongoing practice building.
We are always learning. It’s part of being human first, then the professional therapist.
We carry others forward in their lives, and it’s a reminder that we need to carry ourselves forward too. Clinical consultation, clinical supervision, and our own therapy supports us to do this. Business owners including therapists in private practice have a team of supports helping them to sustain ongoing SUCCESS as they define it. Who is part of your success team?
Available clinical consultation and supervision for Psychotherapists and Social Workers virtually in Ontario & New Brunswick.
As a Registered Social Worker who has practiced in the field, across a variety of areas including mental health, addictions, trauma expertise, medical social work, eating disorders, and supervising other clinicians I have many resources and ideas. I love to work with folks through supervision in a collaborative, flexible, and accountable approach to support therapists with providing the best evidenced based treatment, and ensuring they are aware of their own "sticking blind spots" in their delivery of counselling or psychotherapy. I have a special interest in ethics and ethical decision making as part of the ways I support other therapists.
Shelley grounds her practice for both individual, family therapy, and clinical supervision in anti-oppression, anti-racism, de-colonized, and harm reduction frameworks. Shelley uses a culturally sensitive and responsive approach to support you in therapy.
Clinical Supervision OR Clinical Consultation
Which one is a best fit for what I need right now?
Clinical Supervision is defined as a formal relationship involving structured documentation and regulatory compliance as part of clinical service delivery, registration requirements as a psychotherapist or social worker providing services. As a clinical supervisor I provide you with feedback, learning through guided reflection, professional development, ethical skill building, and confidence in practice. There can be collaborative problem solving together as well as part of this work.
Consulting is often perceived as a flexible and can have a variety of meetings laid out to enhance, or problem solve, consult through discussion of a specific area of work, learning a new area of practice, or to talk through a stuck point in a case. Consulting is a short term focused or targeted discussion about a specific topic. Consulting also includes focused guidance and expertise being shared without formal documentation requirements being fulfilled for registration requirements.
Therapists aren’t taught how to be entrepreneurs and all the details that are included with running a business.
Mentorship support with their business growth is a highly valued service as an entrepreneur and therapist focused business.
Workplace Wellness Workshops Now Offered
Workplace relationship dynamics, workplace culture, and work flow demands all impact our mental health and physical wellbeing. Research has shown positive effects in increasing work flow productivity, while decreasing stress by integrating mindfulness practices into daily work routines for all of us.
After a decade of working in high stress, social service jobs with high productivity demands, I realized there was more to work days then just feeling like you are pushing people through a line up of drive through counselling services. This got me motivated to evaluate how can I help others learn tips and strategies to help themselves feel more mindfully present, enjoying their work, and more creative in the work day. This led me to developing and trialing workplace wellness workshops.
Workplace Wellness Workshops can be tailored and customized to fit your individual needs. Each workplace has a unique set of challenges, strengths, and people, therefore one size or set of protocols never fits. Curious to learn more, send me an email inquiry and we can schedule a meeting to discuss what you are experiencing and how I can help!