Clinical supervision as it exists within the helping and healing professions is not just an ethical and professional necessity, nor should it simply serve as a functional and technical analysis of the supervisee’s work; it is at a fundamental level about an ongoing commitment to the work of human relationships.

Through my experience as a clinical supervisor and my own clinical supervision across my years working as a therapist, I have come to understand creative clinical supervision as a soulful practice; where as supervisors we have the privilege of honouring the courage, vulnerability, commitment and life of our fellow professionals and the people that they support and work alongside.

This understanding is rooted in the intimacy of the supervision space and the potential it holds for exploring the oftentimes ineffable encounters of client and supervisee, and supervisee and supervisor. Through exploring and revealing what exists most deeply in the lives of others, we reveal more of what exists within ourselves. As a result, we might all – client, supervisee, and supervisor - emerge downstream from this process having discovered more about our needs, our perspectives, our fears, our dreams and what it is that we are each contributing. Within this living process, we might all find ways to become more responsible collaborators in our work and in our community, and hopefully play our small but significant part in contributing greater healing, growth, balance and love to the continued unfolding of our world.