One of the ways we work to avoid stuckness, burnout, or, even worse, causing harm to clients is to engage in ongoing clinical supervision. The state of Colorado requires it for the first 2000 hours of work before being fully licensed. We’ve found to be valuable to continue engaging in supervision and consultation on a regular basis throughout our career to continue learning, growing, have a space to get support with difficult situations, and continue working on minimizing our blindspots. Chuck Hancock, M.Ed., LPC offers individual supervision and consultation for licensed and pre-licensed clinicians in the community as well as and both individual and group supervision for all staff at Inner Life Adventures.
Chuck’s belief is that engaging in ongoing supervision and consultation not only enhances the client experience and ensures continuted professional development, but it also creates a network of supported and resourced practicioners rather than isolated practicioners being asked to hold more than they are able. For that reason he also engages in supervision with a experienced and certified Jungian Analyst, engages in his own therapy for personal work, and participates in a Group Facilitators Consultation Group and presents cases in a weekly case seminar with the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association based in New York. Your privacy and confidentiality are the greatest priority and names and identifying information are withheld. You are also welcome to request the specific names of people he consults with and request that your case is never discussed at all if you prefer.
If you are interested in supervision with Chuck, feel free to read more about his Philosophy and Approach to supervision below and contact him directly at [email protected].
Philosophy & Approach: My approach to supervision is based on a mutually respectful and professional relationship utilizing a developmental and integrated model of supervision to help supervisees grow both personally and professionally life to serve their clients better and gain more skill, proficiency, and fulfillment in their work. The work is largely an exploration and development of the supervisee’s own individual therapeutic orientation, counseling style, and professional identity. The general areas of focus include working to increase competence in major clinical domains of the supervisee’s professional behaviors: counseling skills, personal growth and awareness, case conceptualization, screening and assessment, diagnostic evaluation, treatment planning, ethical and legal issues, multicultural and diversity considerations, record keeping, and termination. These domains will be explored through sharing and reflection on experiences with clients over time in multiple domains, including technical, detailed, existential, theoretical, and transpersonal to help clinicians be able to work from multiple perspectives. I will assume supervisory roles, including teacher, counselor, consultant, and evaluator, to facilitate this process. My role will change from week to week depending on where you are in your developmental process, what you are encountering in your clinical work, and your level of experience with the material your clients are bringing. Audio and videotapes, live observation, and case report are all utilized in the supervision process. In addition, our supervisory relationship may include a combination of individual meetings, group meetings, email correspondence, and documentation review. I consider intentionality to be paramount in work as a counselor. As such, I work with supervisees to become aware of the thoughts and feelings that occur with respect to the counseling relationship and process as well as the supervisory relationship and process. As much as possible, we will aim to avoid judgment of any and all thoughts and feelings that occur in the therapeutic and supervisory relationship, choosing instead to use all thoughts, feelings, behaviors, actions, lack of actions, and patterns to orient us to our own psyche and the psyche and soul of our clients. Facilitating this awareness, including attention to the motivation behind interventions, is one of the most important aspects of my work as a supervisor.