Consultation
therapists and counsellors
Support that
Meets Your Needs
Case consultations that are client and therapist centred.
Are you looking for support in your work with clients that makes space for your own experience as a therapist? By experience I don’t just mean knowledge or expertise–which is certainly a part of it–but I’m more so referring to the lived, embodied experience you have while you are working with your client.
Unfortunately, whether it is intentional or not, therapists can feel missed and dismissed in supervision sessions or case consultations. This can happen when the emphasis is placed only on the client and what is best for the client while the therapist’s own embodied experience, discomforts/limitations, and deeper knowing is ignored, dismissed, or even shamed. If you are looking for case consultation that values you as the therapist as much as your client, then we will likely be a good fit!
Additionally, you may seek case consultation with me because you want to adopt and integrate an existential lens and/or apply what you’ve learned in any existential therapy training you have taken to your therapeutic work.
Approach to Consultation
therapists and counsellors-
My approach to case consultations is a phenomenological method called “Personal Existential Analysis” (PEA) which is from the Viennese school of Existential Analysis and Logotherapy.
PEA involves taking a phenomenological approach to understanding the case or situation you are bringing. What does this mean? Phenomenology involves a commitment to openness, curiosity, and understanding to get to the essence of ‘what is’.
Through this approach, we emphasize your personhood as a therapist and explore your experience while working with the client just as much as we focus on the client. My aim is to help you come to a deeper understanding of not only what may be going on for the client (conceptualization) and what they may need (treatment recommendations), but also how you experience and are impacted by the client throughout your work. As such, we take time to explore your emotions, intuitions, and somatically felt sense to gain a deeper understanding of yourself, your client, and both your needs.
Personal Existential Analysis
the consultation process
describe
We begin with a thorough description of the client case you are bringing.
explore
We explore your lived experience of working with the client: your feelings, impressions, intuitive sense.
understand
Integrating your lived experience into this step, we identify relevant theory/knowledge to conceptualize the case.
enact
We identify all possible supportive courses of action for you and your client, and help you arrive at a decision on which direction to take.
Consultation
50 minutes
$220 for professionals
$190 for students
- Areas of Focus
- Applying an existential lens to your therapeutic work
- Illuminating and understanding your experience of the work with your client
- Case conceptualization (applying theory to practice)
- Identifying potential courses of action
What’s the difference between mentorship and consultation?
Mentorship is about the development of you as a person-therapist. Although specific clients and your work may prompt some exploration, the focus is primarily on you and what it means for you to be a therapist. Consultation usually centres around a specific client case you need support with. Consultation does involve exploring your own experiences with the client, but the focus is still case-specific (not your development as a whole as is the case with mentorship).