Social Work Supervision, Northern NJ.
Attention LSW's: Groups meet Tuesday evenings and Thursday mornings
Attention LCSW's: Join our group! Meets Tuesday mornings.
Contact Paula Ochs for more information.
Are you an LSW or an LCSW who is looking for clinical supervision in Northern
NJ? Are you committed to giving your clients the very best of you? I offer Social
Work Supervision to LSW's and LCSW's focusing on your clinical strengths while
providing challenge in a warm and supportive environment.
Attention LSW's: Groups meet Tuesday evenings and Thursday mornings
Attention LCSW's: Join our group! Meets Tuesday mornings.
Contact Paula Ochs for more information.
Are you an LSW or an LCSW who is looking for clinical supervision in Northern
NJ? Are you committed to giving your clients the very best of you? I offer Social
Work Supervision to LSW's and LCSW's focusing on your clinical strengths while
providing challenge in a warm and supportive environment.
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Other Training Possibilities
I also offer Professional Development Workshops.
Is Social Work Supervision for You?
LSW's are required to have clinical supervision in order to obtain licensing.* Social
Work Supervision can also help build LCSW's skills for working with individuals,
couples, families, and groups by providing guidance in engagement/joining,
framing problems into workable contexts, and by developing effective
interventions. In addition, supervision can help LCSW's to grow as therapists by
helping them to gain self knowledge. Supervision is also available to LCSW's who
supervise other clinicians in order to provide support and clarification around
ethical and other issues. I believe supervision should be supportive building on
the strengths of the therapist while challenging enough to stimulate new kinds of
thinking and approaches to therapy. Good supervision leads to personal growth
as well as professional growth.
*See NASW FAQ's on supervision.
Supervision Modalities
I offer social work supervision in a group and one-on-one. Supervision in a group
setting helps the therapist improve skills by practicing interventions with group
members via role play. Group supervision also provides the therapist with a
network of peer support. Supervision in a group gives the therapist an opportunity
for experiential learning. Experiential learning is a powerful way to learn because
it utilizes sight, sound, feeling and action.
Learn more about the benefits of supervision.
My Approach
My approach to Social Work Supervision uses role play and other experiential
techniques in order to facilitate learning. Trainees also have the opportunity to
use the genogram effectively. Additionally, trainees can present videotaped
sessions for discussion. For more information on me, see About Paula Ochs.
My approach to Social Work Supervision helps therapists learn how to work
systemically with individual clients. This ecological approach allows the clinician to
understand the client in the context of his/her life. Is the client recently retired,
divorced, or suffering from a debilitating illness? An ecological approach develops
the clinician's ability to anticipate the challenges and consequences of change.
Will an angry child become subdued if his parents stop fighting?
Supervisees also learn how to work effectively with couples and families and how
to understand the relationship between interpersonal dynamics and the presenting
problem. Does the daughter cut when her father comes home drunk? Does the
husband become depressed when his wife talks about having a child?
Trainees also learn how to develop effective interventions in the here and now.
Many clinicians struggle to intervene in client interactions in the moment. The
approach I use in Social Work Supervision focuses on experiential techniques
borrowed from Psychodrama that help therapists to learn and execute
interventions that are processed focused and can be observed and evaluated in
the therapist's office. Can a husband learn to speak to his wife without raising his
voice? Can a wife learn to let her husband nurture their sad son so that the wife is
less burdened?
Supervision is also offered for MFT graduates. Participants should have a
graduate degree.
Contact Paula Ochs to find out more about Social Work Supervision.
My Philosophy about therapy and training
I am passionate about the ability of psychotherapy to transform the lives of our
clients and the ability of professional training to transform us as professionals as
well. If you want to help others through therapy you need to develop the best
skills you can. Although you may think of skills as techniques, the ability to
understand oneself in the context of one's life is one of the most important skills
you can develop as a therapist. Good supervision helps us to understand the
beliefs and values that drive us, as well as our clients, and to expand ourselves
so that we can help a wider array of clients with a wider array of issues. This is
what I call an ecological approach to therapy and training.
I am passionate about the ability of psychotherapy to transform the lives of our
clients and the ability of professional training to transform us as professionals as
well. If you want to help others through therapy you need to develop the best
skills you can. Although you may think of skills as techniques, the ability to
understand oneself in the context of one's life is one of the most important skills
you can develop as a therapist. Good supervision helps us to understand the
beliefs and values that drive us, as well as our clients, and to expand ourselves
so that we can help a wider array of clients with a wider array of issues. This is
what I call an ecological approach to therapy and training.
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