Session A5 | 60 minute presentation
| Thursday, February 25, 2027 |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Bellarine Rooms |
Overview
The Depth Between Us, Supervision as Relational Encounter, Gill Straker
Presenter
Dr Gill Straker
Centre for Advanced Studies in Psychotherapy and Counselling
The Depth Between Us, Supervision as Relational Encounter
4:00 PM - 5:00 PMAbstract
The session will present a live supervision with a colleague who will be the supervisee to demonstrate how the seminal qualities of connection, understanding and an attitude of being non-judgemental facilitates the supervisees exploration of the transference, counter-transference matrix as the supervisee experienced this in a fictitious therapy session.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the key features of relational depth in supervision: presence, attunement immediacy, authenticity and a sense of connection.
- Understand how relational depth can transform supervision from primarily an evaluative process and/or an assessment of the client/patient into a learning process about both the other and the self.
- Reflect on the opportunities and tensions involved in entering more deeply into the supervisory relationship while maintaining the boundary between therapy and supervision
- Engage with the application of the principles of relational depth to enhance supervision by developing greater presence, attunement and responsiveness, enabling the use of the relationship itself as a resource for reflection, learning and professional growth.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the key features of relational depth in supervision: presence, attunement immediacy, authenticity and a sense of connection.
- Understand how relational depth can transform supervision from primarily an evaluative process and/or an assessment of the client/patient into a learning process about both the other and the self.
- Reflect on the opportunities and tensions involved in entering more deeply into the supervisory relationship while maintaining the boundary between therapy and supervision
- Engage with the application of the principles of relational depth to enhance supervision by developing greater presence, attunement and responsiveness, enabling the use of the relationship itself as a resource for reflection, learning and professional growth.
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Gill Straker has served as a clinical professor in the School of Psychology and Psychiatry at Sydney University and is a visiting research professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
She is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, co-director of the Centre for Applied Studies in Psychotherapy and Counselling (CASPC) and is involved in several training programmes.
She is a member of the New South Wales Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the International Association of Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy as well as the Australian Centre of Psychoanalysis ( Lacanian )
She has broad experience working in the area of post-traumatic and continuing traumatic stress. She has worked with UNHCR on programmes for refugees and survivors of torture and detention. She was involved in providing counselling services to individuals on the run from the Apartheid State and has published numerous articles in the fields of post-traumatic and continuous traumatic stress, whiteness ,peace studies and spirituality.
She has published two books Faces in the Revolution co-authored with the Sanctuaries Counselling Team and the Talking Cure co-authored with Jacqui Winship.
Her podcast series on relational psychotherapy supervision is entitled Three Associating and can be accessed via Spotify
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