Seasoned Clinician’s Notebook: Multiraciality in the Supervisory Relationship – Exploring the Influence of Multiplicity on Attunement, Rupture, and Repair
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Presented by Jessie Quintero Johnson, PhD, LICSW and Alex Watson, LICSW, MTS
Program Description:
In this presentation, we will use concepts from object relations and attachment frameworks to explore the processes of attunement and relating, dissociation of self, and the enactment of internalized hierarchies that happen in multiracial supervisor-supervisee relationships and the related formulations of client material. We will share our reflections about our own supervision relationship and the ways in which our identity experiences of similarity, difference, and multiplicity created opportunities for connection, rupture, and repair.
About the Presenters:
Jessie Quintero Johnson, PhD, LICSW (she/her) is a health communication scholar and independently licensed and practicing social worker. She is a faculty member of the School of Social Work at Bridgewater State University and has extensive experience in educational program development and the training and supervision of early career mental health professionals. Her interdisciplinary research explores the social construction of stigma surrounding mental health and illness and the best practices for communicating health information to ameliorate mental health stigma. Her therapy practice with individuals and couples is informed by an anti-oppressive, liberation health lens and she has specialized training in trauma, attachment, emotion-focused, cognitive-behavioral, EMDR, and relational psychodynamic therapy techniques.
Alex Watson, LICSW, MTS (he/him) is a psychotherapist in private practice in Worcester, MA, treating individuals with mental health needs related to anxiety, mood disorders, and self-esteem as well as identity development and religion/spirituality. He obtained his master’s degree in clinical social work from Smith College School for Social Work and master’s degree in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School. His theoretical and clinical interests include the integration of Buddhism, and spirituality and religion more broadly, with psychoanalytic theory, multiracial identity, and gender identity with a focus on masculinity for Men of Color.
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CEUs will not be offered for The Seasoned Clinician’s Notebook, but Letters of Attendance will be sent upon completion of a program evaluation survey.