With over 10 years of supervision experience, Natalya has supported the growth and development of many social work and psychology interns (students)  through practicums by providing good practice and clinical supervision. She also provides supervision to registered mental health professionals, including Social Workers, Psychologists, and Canadian Certified Counsellors with CCPA. Natalya offers supervision and consultation in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Newfoundland and Labrador. 
 

What is the difference between Supervision and Consultation?
In the therapy, supervision and consultation serve distinct purposes, though both are essential for professional development and ethical practice.
 

Supervision

• Focus: Primarily aimed at the therapist's clinical work.

• Structure: Typically involves a formal arrangement where a licensed supervisor overseeing the Mental Health Professional

• Goals: To ensure the therapist is providing competent and ethical care, developing clinical skills, and navigating complex cases. This often includes evaluating the therapist’s work and providing feedback.

• Process: Involves regular meetings, case discussions, and may include assessments of the therapist’s competencies.
   

Consultation

• Focus: More about specific cases or issues rather than the overall development of the therapist.

• Structure: Can be informal and may involve peers or experts without a formal supervisory relationship.

• Goals: To provide advice, insights, and different perspectives on specific client cases or clinical dilemmas.

• Process: May include one-time meetings or ongoing discussions about particular cases, without the evaluative component found in supervision.

 
In summary, supervision is often a structured, evaluative relationship focused on professional development, while consultation is a more flexible and informal approach aimed at problem-solving specific clinical issues.

About Natalya’s Supervision Framework

Natalya draws on from several supervision models. Aligned With her therapeutic practice approaches, Natalya leans into a developmental approach to supervision & consultation. She believes strongly in nurturing the growth and progression of the supervisee over time, and works within all phases of development of supervisees, uniquely tailored to them. These can range from a phase of high support needs from the supervisor, limited self-awareness, and focus on skill acquisition; to an increased confidence, greater independence, and variable competence across situations; and finally progressing into a phase of high autonomy, self-awareness, and integration of skills. 
 

While the developmental approach is at the heart of Natalya’s supervision framework, she also borrows from a systems approach that considers the systemic and contextual factors influencing counselling, including skills such as intervention, conceptualization, and personalization, as well as roles (supervisor acts as teacher, counselor, or consultant). Here Natalya explores how individual, organizational, cultural, and societal systems impact the supervision process. 
 

Lastly, Natalya incorporates a humanistic/person-centered practice, wherein the priority is on the relationship between supervisor and supervisee, which is the essential foundation for learning and growth. Here Natalya borrows from Carl Rogers' Person-Centered Approach, emphasizing empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard in the supervisory relationship; while fostering supervisees’ self-awareness and self-actualization. Often this will look like Natalya encouraging the supervisees to reflect deeply on their practice, values, and emotional experiences.
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Training and education that has integrated these models into Natalya’ supervision approach are: 
 

• Clinical Social Work Supervision - provided by the Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary; Jane Matheson PhD, RCSW and Registered Clinical Supervisor

• Clinical Supervision: Proven Tools and Techniques for Success; PESI - PresenterL Robert Taibbi, LCSW, Psychotherapy

• Best Practice in Professional Supervision: A guide for helping professionals by Allysion Davys & Liz Beddoe

• Supervision Essentials for the Practice of Competency-Based Supervision by Carol A Falender & Edward P. Shafranske;

• The Cycle of Excellence:  Using deliberate practice to improve supervision and training edited by Tony Rousmaniere, Rodney K Goodyear, Scott D Miller, & Bruce E Wampold
   

Natalya also engages with ongoing professional development to enhance her clinical skills in the area of supervision and consultation. 

 

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