Special guest Virginia Ungar, MD, along with the International Psychotherapy Institute’s Child Combined Program faculty, Jill Scharff, MD, and Janine Wanlass, PhD, will guide participants in this special one-day event.

Are you engaged in child therapy supervision as a supervisee or a supervisor? Have you faced a difficult moment in your supervision? You are not alone. Child and adolescent patients are stressful for adult therapists, and working online brings even more challenges. That’s where supervision can help us learn about the patient, and about our ways of doing and being as child and adolescent therapists.

We learn from observing our recreation of clinical experience in the supervisory relationship. When working with children, the supervisee is faced with the parent’s authority over the child, which can affect the supervisee’s experience with the supervisor. Working with adolescents, the supervisee is dealing with turbulence that can resonate uncomfortably in the supervisory relationship.

How does the supervisee negotiate the supervisory relationship that offers learning but raises mutual anxiety, fears of incompetence, and the shame of not knowing? How does the supervisor support educate, and respect the supervisee’s cultural affiliations, essential otherness, autonomy, and ownership of their clinical practice? How does the supervisory pair cultivate and sustain a psychic space for truth, fairness, and shared learning?

Please join us at IPI to share concerns and find psychoanalytic ways of thinking about and dealing sensitively with the dilemmas of the child and adolescent psychotherapist in the competence-building supervisory relationship.