What Supervision Taught Me About Being a Better Therapist |
As the year comes to a close, so does another cycle of group supervision. This time of transition has invited me to pause and reflect—not only on what I’ve offered as a trainer and supervisor, but on what I’ve learned in return.
What surprised me most this year was not how much I taught, but how often my own limitations became visible in the process. Moments of uncertainty. Not having the perfect answer. Feeling the edges of my competence.
And yet, those moments turned out to be among the most formative.
They reminded me—again and again—that the heart of our work is not mastery, but how we relate: to ourselves, to our clients, and to one another. In Schema Therapy terms, they brought me back to the importance of holding a limited reparenting lens, not just as a........