April Group Supervision

Our 1st Thursday (early bird) group is meeting April 18th, from 6:00-8:00am

Our 1st Thursday (post coffee) group is meeting April 18th from 10:00-12:00pm

No 1st Wednesday afternoon group this month

Our 2nd Monday morning group is meeting April 15th, from 1:30-3:30pm

Advanced Skill - Emotional Self-Disclosure

Emotional self-disclosure is an advanced skill in our work and we want this to be an intentional use of self disclosure. So we’re going to be talking about how easily we can fall into emotional self-disclosure, setting a precedence of what we as the clinician perceive as “good” vs. “bad” without even realizing it. We’re often doing it on accident, and often in an attempt to connect and build rapport.

Some of the ways this can show up in our work with clients:

• Thank you for being here

• Thank you for sharing that

• Oh, that’s good, I’m so glad

• I’m so happy to hear that

This often can make it about us and our feelings vs. our clients and their feelings.

When we do self-disclose we want it to be intentional. When we “emotionally” self-disclose, then we REALLY want it to be intentional. We want to show we notice, we’re paying attention, we’re hearing their story, without making it about us, or without unintentionally setting a good vs. bad precident.

Example:

Unintentional self-disclosure - “I’m so glad you felt safe enough to share that with me” - I’ve now made it about me, and the safe space I’ve created for them

or rather we can try…

Intentional observation and reflection “I am noticing you’ve shared a few things today that a few weeks ago you indicated you weren’t ready to share. I imagine you may have feelings about this shift.”

Come with your questions, thoughts, challenges, and we’ll dig in!

I look forward to seeing you all there!