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When a Therapist Feels Small in the Room: How clinical supervision can help shift fear, authority dynamics, and impasse
I had a very moving clinical supervision session recently that stayed with me. My supervisee—an experienced clinical psychologist who also supervises interns from masters in clinical psychology —brought in a challenging family case. He had met with a family where the parents held higher status and presented as dominant, and he found himself feeling stuck. He was deeply aware of an intense fear that arose when facing a client of authority and anger. At one point, I asked him,

Cheryl Chin
Apr 202 min read
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