Professional Supervision
More than half of the people I work with on a regular basis are health professionals: physicians, psychologists, nurses, psychiatrists, coaches, counselors, holistic practitioners, massage therapists, and so on. That is, individuals who deal with other people on a daily basis in a helping relationship of some kind. Carrying out these professions, dealing with deep and delicate issues every day, can have an impact on the private life and health of those who practice them.
There are predominantly three reasons why I am contacted by these types of professionals:
Energy Drainage and Energy Absorption:
Working with people with some form of physical, psychological, or emotional disorder often results in being drained of one's energy. It's not uncommon for these professionals to find themselves completely exhausted and lacking in energy at the end of the day. In the long run, this can lead to mental and physical exhaustion (burnout). This happens because those who are in close contact with people with physical and mental illnesses on a daily basis can absorb the energy (often not clean) of their own patients or clients.
Difficult Clients and Personal Issues:
Anyone who does this type of work is constantly unintentionally prodded in one’s personal issues, making things very difficult if these issues have not yet been sufficiently processed. This makes it necessary to receive specific support to better understand what is happening during a visit/session with their client and process it so that they can find their center and do their work effectively.
Emotional Well-being:
In order to protect themselves from the great emotional stress of sometimes serious issues which children, adults and the elderly are affected by, some professionals create an armor. This inevitably leads to blocking the entire emotional sphere and therefore also their empathy and those healthy emotions that are necessary in the personal life of each individual.
In relation to these three issues, the work I do with professionals who come to me is:
Related to point 1 - Energy Drainage and Absorption:
Help them identify what types of clients/patients (or people in general) they are most inclined to absorb energy from;
Develop the sensitivity to pick up on signals and notice when this dynamic is taking place;
Provide them with the tools to protect themselves from this dynamic without either making their client/patient feel wrong or abandoned by disconnecting from them;
Know what to do in their personal life to recover lost energy and eliminate from their system those ones that do not belong to them;
Learn how to protect themselves from these energetic dynamics without closing their hearts to their clients/patients;
Learn which are the "character structures" that, in an unconscious way, use these "energetic defenses" and why;
Get in touch with their own body/mind/emotion/spirit system and better understand which is the most appropriate working regime for them and apply it in their professional practice.
In relation to point 2 - "Difficult" Clients and Personal Issues:
Have regular individual sessions in which to address the cases that have most challenged the practitioner and address what may be the personal issues that need to be worked through more deeply;
Acquire the tools to make oneself more neutral and less reactive ("defended") in relation to those clients/patients who are most challenging;
Understand the difference between "defending" and "protecting" oneself from a client and how this is reflected in the therapeutic relationship;
Recognize which cases and which clients/patients are within one's ability to work with and which ones put us in a position where we cannot do our work at our best;
Process the internal reactions that thinking about referring these clients to other professionals may trigger within oneself (sense of inadequacy, economic fears, etc);
Addressing the economic and energetic aspect of working with clients (how does our need for money lead us to keep them energetically connected to us).
Related to point 3 - Emotional Well-Being:
Explore whether certain situations are touching on a personal issue that has not been fully processed;
Finding an effective way to protect oneself from those situations that create strong emotional stress;
Finding out if you are really able to do this kind of work without too much impact on your personal life;
Being able to open your heart to those people in deep pain without being carried away by your emotions;
Finding out if you take on other people's suffering more than necessary and learning to "let go" of what is not yours to bear;
Recognizing what you need in order to do this kind of work at the best of your ability.
Helping people is not an easy job, and it is even less so when faced alone. Needing support to work and live better does not mean being inadequate or a bad professional; rather, it is a primary need of any human being and a sign of responsibility to oneself and one's clients.
We don't have to make it all on our own! ❤