Therapists often find harm in therapy a challenging topic to confront. It is often considered from a preventative perspective, which is important, however no preventative measures can completely eradicate the risk of clients experiencing harm in therapy. In this workshop, I will be looking at different ways harm in therapy can emerge in supervision, and how we manage that in the supervisory relationship. I will be encouraging us to expand our understanding of harm, and consider how supervision can act as a crucial tool in the prevention and mitigation of harm in therapy, as well as the development of our individual and collective thinking about harm.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event:
- A deeper understanding about the dynamics of harm in therapy and how they present in supervision.
- A catalyst for thinking about our role of supervisors in addressing harm in therapy.
- A challenge to our beliefs and assumptions about how harm in therapy impacts therapeutic and supervisory practice.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Supervisors and therapists interested in thinking more about how they use the supervisory space for conversations about harm in therapy.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- I hope that supervisors leave the workshop feeling more confident about using the supervisory space to explore harm, and supervising therapists who are working with harm.
Course Content
Presenter
Erin (she/they) is an integrative therapist and supervisor working in private practice in West Yorkshire. Her practice is focussed on working with clients who have previous experience of harmful therapy, in short and long term work. She is increasingly working with therapists who work with harmed clients, as well as therapists who are concerned about, or otherwise interested in harm in therapy, both in open-ended supervision, and short term consultancy.
As well as therapy and supervision, Erin is a writer, trainer and activist, with a focus on harm in therapy, neurodivergence and social justice.
