Better Together

Clinical supervision, time to reflect, a chance to build relationships and re-set.

The  best thing we can do as clinicians is maintain support, supervision and therapy to protect our baseline and have long and successful careers. This job is incredibly important and many therapists have been going without support due to an influx of people working privately, higher demand for services and increased stress collectively.

"The exhausting, demanding, and draining nature of psychotherapy makes clinicians an especially vulnerable crowd when it comes to the susceptibility of stress. For instance, sampling 182 clinicians, Luther et al. (2017) demonstrated that 52% of participants report working overtime hours in any given week, which resulted in feelings of alienation, symptoms of burnout, and reduced work satisfaction. Additionally, mental health work is stressful and has often been described as causing burnout, which involves chronic work-related stress, which is associated with emotional exhaustion and loneliness"  (Luther et al., 2017; Rupert & Morgan, 2005; Sander & Bauman, 2020)."

We believe with the right amount of support and connection we can avoid levels of burn out and help clinicians to feel rewarded,  empowered and continue doing this valuable work. This group is appropriate for Registered Therapists (social workers, psychotherapists, occupational therapists, dietitians, nutritionists etc) who would like an accessible way of maintaining supervision in a group setting. 

Due to Carly's specialization and experience working with Eating Disorders, there may naturally be more in attendance who are looking for more support with this population. That being said, we will explore the needs of the group and develope appropriate content based on the attendees. After 5 years of supervising other therapists Carly has recently finished some extended education on supervision and is quite passionate about creating a space for therapists (and the like) to stay at their best doing this work. 

Every 6 weeks we will meet on a Thursday morning with Coffee and snacks in our comfortable environment with an agenda as follows:

-Check in introductions

-Skill introduction (a topic or learning that reflects the needs of the group)

-Case consultation

-Check out

This group will focus heavily on ensuring the health and wellness of the clinician while exploring client/patient needs as we go.

This is a closed group limited to 12 people for the first 6 months and some exceptions may apply for new members with proper intake procedures. The hope is to help with consistency and continuity by having the same people attend for the first 6 months. We understand there are times when you may have to miss a group and will require payment for the group the Monday of each weke the group runs. If there are not enough people to run the group payment wil be refunded. 

By signing up for this group you are committed to learning on the following dates. 

November 10th 10-12pm

December 22nd 10-12pm

February 2nd 10-12pm

March 16th 10-12pm 

April 27th  10-12pm

June 8th 10-12pm

New dates will be announced In June. 

Facilitated by Carly Crawford 

Investment is 75.00 + HST per person for each week 2 hour session.  

Hours can be used for clinical supervision for CRPO.