Supervision Through a Relational Lens: A Psychodynamic Approach

Friday, November 15, 2024

9:00 – 11:00 a.m. 

Richmont’s Atlanta Campus

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Workshop Description

This workshop will consider how relational aspects of psychodynamic theory and practice can enhance clinical supervision regardless of theoretical orientation. It will focus on how a relational emphasis in supervision can empower clinicians to make ethical and skillful use of their own emotional experience to deepen the therapy relationship and process. This model of psychodynamic supervision puts the relationship front and center, guiding the supervisor toward creating an interpersonal context in which it becomes both possible and ethical to work experientially in the here and now of the supervisory relationship. Special attention will be given to issues related to the therapeutic alliance, countertransference, rupture and repair, affective self-disclosure, and the therapist’s use of self.   

Presenters: Laura Land, PhD, LPC, NCC, CPCS and Stanley Hoover, PhD, LPC, ACS

Dr. Laura Land is an Associate Professor in Richmont’s School of Counseling with specializations in trauma, addiction, child and adolescent therapy, grief, community counseling, depression and anxiety. Dr. Stanley Hoover is Assistant Dean of the School of Counseling and he directs the online CMHC program. His specializations are relational psychodynamic theory and practice, developmental trauma, religious and spiritual coping in response to trauma, spiritually oriented psychotherapy, and clinical supervision.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. 1) Apply research on evidence-based therapy relationships to clinical supervision.
2. 2) Identify the benefits of integrating relational psychodynamic theory into clinical supervision.
3. 3) Describe how to work with supervisee countertransference in clinical supervision to enhance the quality of the therapy relationship.
4. 4) Discuss the benefits of relational psychodynamic theory in addressing issues of social and cultural difference.

Continuing Education: 2 CE Hours Available

Target Audience: Supervisors from all disciplines; Psychologists; Counselors; Marriage and Family Therapists; Social Workers; graduate students

Instruction Level: Appropriate for all levels

Schedule of the Day 

9:00 – 9:20 a.m. Evidence Based Therapy Relationships and Implications for Supervision

9:20 – 10:00 a.m. Relational Psychodynamic Concepts in Supervision

10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Countertransference Reconsidered: Case Application  

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.  Case Discussion and Open Dialogue   

For questions, please contact Amy Estes at ContinuingEd@Richmont.edu.

There is no known commercial support for this program.

Richmont Graduate University has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4534. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Richmont Graduate University is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Presentation References:

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Safran, J. D., & Muran, J. C. (2000). Negotiating the therapeutic alliance: A relational treatment guide. New York: Guilford Press.

Sarnat, (2012). Supervising Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Present Knowledge, Pressing Needs, Future Possibilities, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 242, (3) 151–160

Sarnat, J. E. (2016). Essential dimensions. In J. E. Sarnat, Supervision essentials for psychodynamic psychotherapies (pp. 17–31). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/14802-002

Watkins, C. E. (2015). Toward a research-informed, evidence-based psychoanalytic supervision. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 29(1), 5–19.  https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2014.980305