Here's something about supervision I never hear anyone talk about.
When I was a new clinician, I was seeing more than twenty clients a week and getting one hour of supervision. So before I even got to the thing I was stuck on, I had to decide which client was worth bringing up. Most of them never came up. There just wasn't time.
And for the one I did bring, half the hour could go just to catching my supervisor up, re-explaining the history and what happened three sessions ago before I could get to where I actually needed help.
I'm not saying that to knock supervisors. I'm one now. We're all doing the best we can with the time we're given.
You're expected to come in prepared, and most of us do. But there's only so much you can sort out on your own before the session. A lot of the hour gets spent figuring out what you're even asking.
I keep thinking there has to be a way to improve the model of how clinicians learn and grow in this work. If a clinician feels more confident, more competent, more prepared walking into the room, I have to believe the work goes better for the person across from them. And maybe they're a little less likely to burn out and leave, the way I almost did.
That's what I set out to build with Steady. Not a replacement for supervision or consultation with a real person, but a way to spend that time more wisely.