Welcome to Group 1 Supervision
Group supervision includes 1.5-hour group Zoom sessions every month for five months, where you can receive direct support with your clients. Additionally, the group will have the opportunity to share how they work with different topics and presentations, and share interventions.
Moreover, you will gain access to a WhatsApp group with the therapists in your supervision group, where you can share articles, courses, ideas and ask for assistance or referrals.
In the meantime, feel free to contact Tanya on tanya@pleasureloverelating.com for individual supervision appointments.
Supervision April 1
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Class times are:
Weekly online sessions and Q&A with Tanya on Wednesdays 12pm-1:30pm
Week 1 - Tuesday 27 July
Week 2 - Tuesday 18 August
Week 3 - Tuesday 15 September
Week 4 - Tuesday 13 October
Week 5 - Tuesday 10 November
Your zoom log in will be the same each week
Supervision April 29
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Client preparing to disclose abuse in counselling session - discussion on trauma treatment plans and safety and checking client safety and grounding
Manosphere, Gen Y male attitudes, R*pe Academy discussion on approaches in therapy room
Training - confidence, planning and self care afterwards
Couples in therapy - one opened rx and broke up, another researching pleasure - discussion on ethical erotica - see list below
How to handle conflict of interest and being in community and serving community
Resources discussed:
Natasha contact details - email admin@consentability.com (my admin person)
Euradica - sex positive erotic audio
Erika lust - ethical p*rn
OMGyes - masturbation for vulvas
Want - Gillian Anderson’s book full of fantasies
My Secret Garden/My Secret Garden 2/Women on Top - Nancy Friday has women around the world sharing fantasies
Supervision May 27
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Conflict of interest / when to resign a client. What happens when a client does a vision quest with a close friend of yours and becomes friends with them? Good therapeutic relationship and client is autistic.
Self care - how do we juggle client load, study, running a business, family, pets, friends and all the chaos that life can throw at us. Prioritising self care.
Infidelity - Other approaches to the Gottman approach which names betrayal impacts as PTSD. Discussion on safety planning, meaning making and couple discussion frameworks.
Returning couple - Discussion on couple that come only in crisis, AOD presentation and changes in power dynamics, fighting in front of kids.
Resources discussed:
Supervision March 04
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Couples feeling no hope for their relationship continuing therapy, how to decouple (finance, living arrangements, children). Weighing heavily on counsellor. Different approaches to take.
Couples where the male partner has committed infidelity. Female partners wanting to get back to and try adventurous sex. Have they processed the betrayal? Betrayal vs intimacy.
Imposter Syndrome when working for forensic psychologists around disability and sexuality.
Couple struggling with sex. She had sex their entire relationship without enjoying it much. Heard women at work talking about sex toys and tried one and started having first orgasms at 40 years old. Husband feels threatened and anxious - now taking meds. They are including the toys in sex. Zooming out to cover sex education, poor messaging around sex, men being the subject and women being the object of sex. His expectations of sex may be all about him and not his partner?
Female client in 20s, 5 year relationship, repulsed by sex/touch/intimacy. Works in male dominated environment, its a turn off, she has no desire. She has desire when her partner is busy and can’t respond. Discuss safety, expectations, toxic masculinity.
Clearing meetings to use when clients have a backlog of unaddressed issues - get them to do a short version in your session so you can see them have a go (one thing instead of three things)
Sandra Pertot - Entitled Libido Type - for a person more focused on themselves when it comes to sex.
Book featuring core erotic themes - Jack Morin, The Erotic Mind.
Supervision June 24
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Money in partnership, different expectations within the couple. History of male partner starting affair with current partner, but going back to his ex. Safety and security could be issues. Explore expectations, fears and differences. What does security look like? Australian law re: bequeathing a property that someone is living in.
Female client, 50s, NDIS, long therapeutic relationship. She has background of sexual trauma from childhood. Long time single, takes the lead in sexual interactions and is then repulsed. Get feelings for male support workers and compares dates to them. Ask what she wants from relationship (not person, but the benefits of being in Rx, as per Jonella Bird - externalising relationship) and be curious how talking about sex arises and boundaries that could be put in place.
Couple together 18 years. She is taking Lyrica, increasing doses, CBD oil, alcohol, experiences pain. Not interested in sex and has told husband he can’t look at porn. Discussed all the ways solo sex, sexual needs and porn can be viewed. He said that 9 months was a long time to wait for sex while she was pregnant - explore this. What does sex look like? Thoughts, meanings and beliefs about sex for both of them (see form below)
Aging mum with MH issues that are escalating. Being the only carer in the family. Mum refusing assistance from partner of 37 years and insisting daughter is support. Discussion on boundaries, dutiful daughter, repercussion of boundary setting. Looking at internal narratives for this situation and giving self permisson to say no.
Couple early 30s, together 8 years. She has endometriosis and other pain conditions and he developed ED in response to fear of causing her pain. She is attractive and gets lots of attention from men. Experienced sexual abuse when younger and travelling. Have had baby and she is touched out and not interested in sex. They have sex once a week - there are 3 positions they can do with no pain. He cries when she says no.
Jonella Bird - writing on relationship as separate entity
Ethical Porn
Erika Lust (spanish)
Anna Brownfield (australian)
Morgana Muses (australian)