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elisabeth van assum, rcc-acs

I provide supervision to three populations

  • Trauma Therapy

    First, I provide supervision for registered professionals in BC who are established in private practice, manage their own case load and seek supervisory support in addressing issues in practice including professional development, clarification of theoretical orientation, intervention, case conceptualization, and ethical resolution of client treatment plans.

  • Counselling Supervision

    Second, I provide supervision for professionals looking to acquire their hours for certification and accreditation within a recognized counseling association in BC. This often applies to immigrants, counselors who have had their credentials lapse, or counselors who have studied and gained their credentials abroad and are required to meet a standardized association entrance threshold in order to join an association in BC.

  • Supervision for Therapists

    Third, I provide supervision services for students completing their practicums either through ciel community counselling located in Vancouver, BC. cielcommunitycounselling.com/counsellors

    OR

    I provide services as a secondary supervisor for students who already have a site but require additional supervision hours to meet their graduation and professional registration requirements.

supervision approach

I practice as a reflective systemic supervisor (EW Thiessen, 2023) whereby supervision with me cultivates a set of indispensable counselling tools which allow you, the clinician, to accurately self-reflect while providing meaningful fruitful services to your client population.

I engage a Common Factors approach (Morgan & Sprenkle 2007) which implements the overlapping responsibilities and roles of Coach, Teacher, Mentor and Administrator with varying degrees of specificity and emphasis depending on the level of experience, skill and development of the clinician. This approach offers you as a professional or student a congruent supervisory style in which you as the clinician are able to appreciate your own unique counselling style and identify areas of growth and areas of expertise so that you can better serve your client population.

I also enlist Person-of-the-Therapist Model (Aponte 1982) for clinicians in the use of their selves in therapy on the premise that the goal, regardless of therapeutic model, is to develop greater capacity to personally engage with clients in ways that further therapeutic objectives even as therapists are who they are at the moment of contact with a client. The essential elements of the goal of this supervisory approach are mastery of self (self-knowledge with self-command), access to the self (memories, emotions, and values), and the ability to actively and purposefully choose how to use self therapeutically in a clinician–client relationship.

Supervision provides a collaborative space to work together to ensure the best possible outcome for the client as you integrate and learn about the best possible outcome for yourself as a clinician.

consultation

I also offer independent meetings to consult on issues related to clinical practice. Sometimes a clinical counsellor is not seeking a long term supervision relationship but is seeking advice or support with a specific issue. In this case we would sign a contract for consultation in which no commitment to regular meetings is established and it is clearly indicated I am not your supervisor.

“I have learned that one’s model or protocols matter not at all and that “evidence-based therapy” is a gambler’s way of pulling the authority card. If you have seiki, or a powerful life force, then any model will come to life. Without it, the session will be dead and incapable of transformation.”
~ Jeffrey A. Kottler, On Being a Master Therapist: Practicing What You Preach

Professional Counselling Supervision

training and experience

In 2020 I completed the Clinical Supervision Fundamentals Course with Dr. Vange Willms Thiessen, BSCN, MAMFT, DMIN; and Dr. Estera A. Boldut, BSW, MAMFT, PsyD. This 36-hour 3-credit course explored a vast selection of supervision models and provided substantive, rigorous training in the ethical and pragmatic implementation and practice of these supervision models. Subsequent to the training I have accumulated 300+ hours of supervisory delivery for both students and professionals.

in 2024 I received my credentials as a regulated supervisor with the BCACC with the designation RCC-ACS (Accredited Clinical Supervisor).

In 2024 I also became an Approved Practicum Supervisor for Yorkville University.

I am also a Registered Approved Supervisor with City University & Adler University

supervision fees

For professionals my fee is $150 for 50 minutes of supervision services. I offer reduced rates for new therapists & students

in line with the current BCACC fee schedule

For interns my fee is paid through the ciel community counselling practicum provider.

“What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?”

~ Tara Brach