The CEO Who Came for Coaching and Needed Something Else
The CEO Who Came for Coaching and Needed Something Else He arrived with a very clear brief. He wanted to work on his communication style, his board relationships, his strategic decision-making. Coaching language. Clean, containable, professional. We spent the first session exactly there. By the third session, something else was in the room. He described […]
Clinical Supervision in Addiction and Eating Disorder Work: What It Is and Why It Matters
Clinical Supervision in Addiction and Eating Disorder Work: What It Is and Why It Matters Clinical supervision is one of the most important and least visible parts of the therapeutic process. The client in the room sees the therapist. They do not see the supervisor who sits behind the work — who hears about the […]
Clinical Supervision: What It Is, Why It Matters, and What Good Supervision Actually Does
Clinical Supervision: What It Is, Why It Matters, and What Good Supervision Actually Does Clinical supervision is one of the most important and most consistently undervalued elements of good clinical practice. It is where the work of psychotherapy gets examined, challenged, deepened and — when necessary — corrected. It is where a clinician brings what […]
Chiron, Hermes and the Work of Analysis: A Reflection on Jungian Practice
Chiron, Hermes and the Work of Analysis: A Reflection on Jungian Practice Analysis, as I have come to understand it, has very little to do with repair. Something else is asked of it — something harder to name, and less comfortable to claim. Accompaniment, perhaps. Translation. The slow restoration of a person’s sense of themselves […]
Relapse Is Not a Moral Failure: It Is a Characteristic of the Illness
Relapse Is Not a Moral Failure: It Is a Characteristic of the Illness If you have relapsed, this is the first thing I want you to know: relapse does not mean you have failed at recovery. It means you have a disease that has relapse as one of its characteristics. That is a clinical fact, […]
Relapse Begins Long Before You Pick Up: Understanding the RELAPSE Acronym
Relapse Begins Long Before You Pick Up: Understanding the RELAPSE Acronym One of the most important things I have learned in 25 years of working with people in addiction and eating disorder recovery — and in my own recovery — is this: picking up the drink, the drug, or returning to the eating disorder behaviour […]