I've supplemented supervision with staff who live at a distance from my clinic with email and voice mail. It seems to work best with an established face to face relationship, at least to start. Once we have a solid relationship established person to person email has proven to be an excellent way to provide supervision and consultation. I believe the medium of email provides the folowing benefits In summary I am a proponent of a "virtual office" if we can establish a good enough face to face relationship and then evolve into a long distance relationship with the option of phone or in person from time to time. I'm glad to entertain questions at sdunn@servicenetinc.org.
1. writing helps the supervisee to sort out thoughts and feelings in their own time and space
2. Technique and therapist emotional responses can be better differentiated with distance. What are you doing and what are you feeling can be seen more clearly through the reflection that comes through writing.
3. E-supervision cuts through some of the socializing and gets down to business. My experience of over 20 yrs. in the field suggests to me that we gab a lot and often fall victim to tangents. I am more focused with e-mail.
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