Supervision
Relational psychodynamic, somatic, and culturally responsive clinical consultation for psychotherapists.
Clinical Supervision & Consultation for Therapists in NYC
I provide clinical consultation to psychotherapists in New York City, in person in Manhattan and by Telehealth throughout New York State. I work with clinicians across licenses and career stages, including LCSWs, LMHCs, LMFTs, and psychologists.
No prior somatic training is required. Consultation begins with the cases you are carrying now and the clinical questions they raise, whatever framework you were trained in.
Areas of Focus
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For clinicians trained primarily in structured or manualized modalities who want a framework for the interpersonal dimension of their work: transference and countertransference, enactment, the treatment relationship as a source of clinical data.
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For clinicians with or without somatic training who would like to incorporate the mind-body connection as part of their clinical framework. The aim is integration rather than replacement: somatic attention is compatible with cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and structured trauma protocols, and the work is identifying where in your existing approach it belongs rather than asking you to practice differently.
We address indications and contraindications, pacing, titration, and the distinction between embodied attunement and technique applied at a patient. Practically, this means working on how to read autonomic state in the room, how to introduce attention to sensation without making it a procedure the patient has to perform, when slowing down is clinically indicated, and when the body is best left alone — with patients for whom interoceptive focus is destabilizing, and with those for whom it becomes another site of self-surveillance.
The clinician's own physical experience is treated as clinical information: the constriction that arrives with a particular patient, the flatness of a fourth consecutive session, the somatic signature of an impulse to rescue. No prior training or specialized vocabulary is required to work this way. We begin with what is already occurring in your sessions.
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Race, class, migration history, gender, disability, size, and religious background are operative in every treatment, as are the differences between clinician and patient. Consultation addresses how these dimensions shape assessment, alliance, rupture and repair, and the clinician's own blind spots.
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Working with hypoarousal and hyperarousal, structural dissociation, freeze and shutdown states, stabilization sequencing, and the clinical judgment involved in deciding when trauma processing is indicated.
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For clinicians managing acute caseloads with limited institutional support, and for those consolidating a clinical identity beyond the demands of documentation and productivity requirements.
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Impasse, rupture, countertransference difficulty, questions of disposition or referral, and terminations that are not going well.
Culturally Responsive Supervision.
Culturally Responsive Supervision.
I'm a Korean American woman, trained psychodynamically and somatically. I practice in New York City and my work centers women of color, LGBTQIA+ clients, and people living with chronic pain and long-held trauma.
I bring my identities into supervision, and I invite you to bring yours as well so that we can explore how this may impact how you show up and are received as a therapist. If our differences are relevant to what we're working on — and they usually are — we'll speak them out loud.