The process of psychotherapy is emotionally intense, often provocative, and inevitably intricate.
The interwoven psychic worlds between the therapist and patient, the demands on the therapist's psychic availability, aliveness, countertransference readiness, and the awareness that is required for the enactment of the patient’s object-relational drama; all of which demand the therapist for mental space and responsiveness to metabolize resolved conflicts on our patient’s behalf.
Clinical supervision/consultation with a trusted consultant provides the crucial space for the therapist to feel held enough to do such emotionally laborious and personally-involved psychoanalytic work.
In my role as your clinical supervisor/consultant, we work closely together to understand:
the intense transference-countertransference matrix in your work
the impasses you experienced in your work with patients
your experiences of intense countertransference and projective identification
your inhibitions as a therapist
“bad analyst feelings” that hamper your work
the enactment of your own object-relational drama
the complicated relationship you might have with money and time, and self-worth
and other professional growth issues, dilemmas, and ethical challenges
Dr. Cheung offers individual consultation for psychotherapists (psychologists, MFTs, and social workers) who work in community mental health settings and private practice in the Bay Area and Hong Kong. He also co-leads a consultation group for Asian/Asian American psychotherapists. For inquiry, please call Dr. Cheung at (415) 972-9130.