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Beyond the Hours: Clinical Supervision as Professional Identity Development
There is a moment in the development of almost every new clinician when the focus shifts from leaning on their educational scaffolding and guardrails to a deeper clinical longing for cultivating their own unique clinical voice. Early in training, the question is often, “What am I supposed to do?” With experience, it becomes, “What do […]
Louis Laves-Webb, LCSW-S, LPC-S, MSSW
October 12, 2026
Living with Mental Illness as a Therapist: Ethical Challenges in Psychotherapeutic Practice
Introduction Psychotherapy centres on the healing relationship between the patient and the therapist, with the goals of every interaction remaining identifying, working through, and ultimately alleviating the patient’s distress (Flückiger et al., 2018). However, the focus of the professional relationship and therapeutic process extends beyond the patient, as it also encompasses the therapist’s mental health […]
Sanyukta Golaya, M.A.
July 16, 2026
Becoming the Therapist I Once Needed: Reflections on Early Career Development, Humility, and Hope in Couples Therapy
I became a therapist because I know what it feels like to search for clarity, confidence, and direction. That is not a slogan for me. It is part of the lived history I bring into the work, and it shapes the kind of early career therapist I am becoming. I do not come to couples […]
Sheri Sterup, LMFTA
July 15, 2026