Learning Psychotherapy under supervision
A dedicated space for mental healthcare professionals to deepen their understanding, refine their skills, and engage in meaningful supervision.
Clinical Supervision & Training Videos
Practical guidance, supervision discussions, and clinical technique discussions by Dr. Naveen Grover (@DrNaveenGrover).
Omnipotence Rule
Managing high client arousal, handling expectations of being the troubleshooter, and practicing de-escalation skills in professional interactions.
Threatening Client
Precautions for safety and how not to get riled up by client accusations. Avoiding defensive mode, maintaining exit routes, and continuing if safety permits.
How to Learn Skills
A detailed guide for beginner trainees on acquiring microskills, structuring practice responses, handling supervision feedback, and avoiding premature perfectionism.
Cognitive Restructuring Technique
What to say to avoid arguments and respect the client's observations. Clarifying what cognitive restructuring is in clinical practice versus simple disputation.
Initial follow-up: For Trainees
A glimpse into OPD follow-up training for beginner trainees. Medication compliance assessment, distinguishing family tree from personal tree, and structured review.
Therapist in Crisis
When the client calmly says they want to die, the therapist faces confusion and crisis. Guidance on how to buy time and navigate difficult therapeutic moments.
Handling First Session
Key principles of structuring intake and initial clinical interviews, evaluating psychological sophistication, and setting simple clinical expectations.
Basic Skills
Why clinicians must never lose sight of core basics in history-taking and interviewing, comparing deliberate clinical training to athletic mastery.
Book se Pare
Theory to practice: how textbook dogma can blind clinicians from essential human skills, flexibility, and empathy in clinical sessions.
Clinical skills - Intake assessment
The funnel approach in clinical intake: moving from general inquiries to idiosyncratic client perceptions, and forming dynamic clinical hypotheses.
What not to do in psychotherapy
Essential pitfalls to avoid: clinic setting considerations, avoiding premature suggestions, managing self-disclosure pace, and the line between judging and being judgmental.
Transference and Dependence
Dispelling misconceptions around transference and client dependence. Understanding when to raise red flags and how therapist self-efficacy supports the relationship.
Asking about suicide
Screening questions on self-harm and suicide in clinical assessment: why clinicians need to ask direct standard questions, because if you don't ask, clients don't tell.
Use of Genogram in clinical practice
Utilizing genograms and family diagrams in clinical hypothesis building, mapping multigenerational psychosocial cues, family stress factors, and structural relationships.
What to Do in Psychotherapy
Core therapeutic strategies: buying time in crises, catching clinical formulation errors, setting clear boundaries for late clients, and handling culturally sensitive gifting issues.
How to conduct ERP
Detailed clinical masterclass on Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD: preparing the client, graded hierarchy building, managing anxiety peaks, and mass practice protocols.
Inferential skills
Supervision session on medication non-compliance versus client resistance, understanding insight, and avoiding jumping to fix behaviors before understanding priorities.
Intake assessment skills
Intake interviewing fundamentals: active listening, avoiding assumptions, reading idiosyncratic definitions of social support, and building working hypotheses.
To see or not to see
Managing session time and OPD rush: giving clients full undivided presence without checking the clock or card piles, and establishing consistent boundaries for late arrivals.
Upholding the Principles of Practice
We are committed to the sacrosanct principles of psychotherapy practice, research, and training. Our goal is to foster an environment where self-reflection and professional growth lead to the ultimate benefit of the client.
- Harnessing self-regulation in practice
- Cultivating automaticity in introspection
- Embracing supervision as indispensable
Supervision Activities
Tailored guidance for every stage of your professional journey.
Individual Supervision
One-on-one mentorship focused on your specific clinical cases and personal growth as a therapist.
Group Supervision
Collaborative learning in a supportive peer environment, fostering diverse perspectives.
Online Consultations
Accessible remote supervision sessions designed to fit your busy professional schedule.