Re:private practice

I agree with you that teaching and supervising are very effective ways to stay connected with one's field and to evolve professionally. I teach a graduate art therapy thesis course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and I have noticed it creates a frame of reference for me of what is good practice in the profession. I think teaching also creates one more dimension of responsibility for the professional, because it expands the community one has to answer to.
Supervision has aspects of mutuality, during which a supervisor can learn much from a student.
Also, writing (personal essays about my work, cf: Clarence case study) has been a sort of self-supervision. It has deepened my presence during art therapy sessions, and helped me to identify items of supervision.
Last, but not least, creative arts therapists should stay connected to their own creative process, or they might succumb to what Pat Allen dubbed "the clinification syndrome."
Martin Perdoux

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