Who is it for?
These services are aimed at mental health professionals looking to obtain support and feedback to improve their practice and/or treatment outcomes.
How Do Supervision and Consultation Differ?
Excellent question. When you are receiving supervision, your supervisor is responsible for you, your client, the treatment, and the outcomes. They are liable for you legally, and are in essence treating your client concurrently with you. Supervision is conducted from an hierarchical standpoint, and is usually provided by someone you would report to or consider a superior at regular intervals.
Consultation is similar to supervision in that you are receiving feedback on your cases, your approaches, and your outcomes; but it is a more peer like relationship and with less consultant side knowledge of your clients, as you will be sharing the minimum necessary to benefit your client. Consultants can advise, but can not direct treatment like a supervisor can. Consultation is a service received more on an as needed basis, and tends to be more specific. A consultant is responsible to you, but not for you. You are welcome to take from a consulting session anything you like, but you as the provider remain ultimately responsible, and legally liable, for the treatment of your clients.
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