Clinical consultation for mental health providers working in non-profit & community-based organizations
As a social worker and psychologist committed to non-profit settings, I enjoy supporting clinicians dedicated to community-based work. Supporting disenfranchised community members impacted by the social and political forces of oppression, exclusion and dehumanization is both deeply fulfilling and profoundly distressing. The suffering and injustice one bears witness to - and the limits to one's capacity for alleviating that suffering and injustice - exerts a constant strain on one's emotional and moral resources. Secondary traumatization, moral injury and exhaustion are common experiences in these contexts.
With the aim of helping sustain mental health providers committed to community-based work, I offer clinical consultation to discuss your work with clients, and the ways it is impacting you both personally and professionally. My clinical orientation is integrative, with close attention to trauma, culture and context, and a focus on depth and meaning. My approach is based in contemporary relational psychodynamic theory, and influenced by humanistic and liberation psychology, attachment theory, and a multi-perspective international lens. My orientation to supervision and consultation aligns with this overall clinical approach.