Supervision Relationships: Stories of a Supervisee

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Description: Supervision has long been considered developmental in nature, but the process of psychoanalytic supervision has seldom been examined from the aftermath of a terminated supervisory relationship. To that end, I am proposing a new dialogue about the relational aspects of the supervisory dyad; more precisely, the relational implications of termination. | pursue this question through a clinical vignette of my own experience, which encompasses the weeks immediately following termination with my own supervisor. To supplement these reflections, I also collected multiple stories from supervisees in analytic training. My perspective is grounded in the foundational assumption that contemporary analytic supervision attends not just to the patient being presented, or to the therapeutic dad, but to the supervisory relationship itself. This relationship is an essential part of training that all therapists undergo and offers opportunities for both supervisor and supervisee to expand their respective self-awareness in their encounter with the other.

Learning objectives:

1. Better understand how supervision techniques have changed as psychoanalysis has shifted towards a more contemporary style and framework.
2. Recognize that the supervision relationship carries a lot of weight and exists long after the supervision has ended.
3. Consider the impact that a supervisor has on a supervisee and how they co-exist in the field together.

Speakers Bio:
Dr. Tara Hall graduated from Southern Nazarene University in 2013. She is the co-owner of Turning Point Counseling in South OKC.

After attending The Foundations Course through OSPS, Tara went on to begin her psychoanalytic studies at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Tara graduated from ICP in 2021, where she had the privilege of studying under Joe Shaleen, Sona Delurgio, Howard Bacal, and Daniel Goldin.

Currently adjuncts at SNU and supervises interns and candidates, while maintaining her private practice caseload.