My Positionality philosophy of Supervision & Consultation

As a bi-racial Black cis-gendered woman with a fat and able body, who may never fully escape the lower class machine, I am passionate about supporting supervisees of color and those who take up the particularly complex task of doing this work from within marginalized identities. Additionally, I’m committed to all supervisees exploring ways to extract their professional work and clinical thinking from the influences of dominant culture whenever possible and navigating the complexities of persisting in and grieving how it is not yet. 

I draw from a variety of supervision models, counseling orientations, as well as cultural concepts of this thing we do called ‘relating’. Supervision Models include the Multicultural Relational Perspective, the Relational Alliance Model, and the Integrated Developmental Model, though I also consider aspects of the Common factors Model and Competency-Based Model important.