1. A Decade of Online Supervision
And a Decade of OCTIA
Anne Stokes

2. Where have we been? Where are we now? Where are we going?
Online Supervision
Where have we been? Where are we now? Where are we going?

3. All about Online Supervision

4. One of my bookcases!

5. One More Time: What is Supervision
One More Time: What is Supervision? Michael Carroll (Psychotherapy in Australia May 2007)
Stage One – the early days; colleagues talking Stage Two – still using counselling models Stage Three – centred on the process

6. Online Supervision Stage One: How does online therapy work?
Stage Two: inclusion of supervision in training + workshops on supervising online
Stage Three: adapting f2f models of supervision and developing new ones specifically for online supervision
(Stage Four – where we might go from here)

9. 2003
Sue Wheeler –
Systematic Scoping Search of the supervision of counsellors and psychotherapists

10. Counselling at Work Winter 2006

13. Guidelines for Online Supervision
1. Authentication of supervisor and supervisee
2. Legal and professional regulatory constraints
3. Contracting:
Modes of contracting
Technology breakdown
Scheduling of appointments
Maintaining records
Misunderstandings
Group supervision

14. Guidelines for Online Supervision
4. Security and confidentiality:
Client information
Supervisor and supervisee information
Passwords and encryption
Disclosure
5. Research, development and training

17. TILT e. g. Meandering through models of supervision and coaching
TILT e.g. Meandering through models of supervision and coaching! The starting point of this issue’s column was an exchange I had with an online supervisee………..

20. Supplementary Guidance
How we might adapt our chosen modality to the online context (or presumably develop a new approach)
Digital issues
Jurisdictional issues as we may work across borders
Issues which may present therapeutically differently online
Relationship within therapy and supervision online

23. Metacompetences for providing therapy at a distance
Ability to provide psychological therapy at a distance
Knowledge of the theory of therapeutic process relating to therapy at a distance
Ability to identify and to manage risk when working at a distance
Ability to direct clients to online therapeutic resources 
Ability to communicate with clients at a distance
Ability to assess for suitability for therapy at a distance
Ability to use supervision at a distance
Ability to establish “ground rules” for the intervention
Ability to conclude the therapeutic relationship

26. Learning from the past and looking to the future
1. Online supervision of qualified counsellors working online
2. Online supervision of trainee counsellors working online
3. Online supervision of qualified counsellors working in-person
4. Online supervision of trainee counsellors working in-person
5. In-person supervision of qualified counsellors working online
6. In-person supervision of trainee counsellors working online
7. In-person supervision of qualified counsellors working in-person

27. New Models
CLEAR Maria
FORUM - Suzie
CARER - Liane

28. Issues Evaluation and reflection Improvisation and creativity
Legal issues
Guidelines
Working globally

29. Contexts Disability Chronic illness Couples Young people
Student counselling
Training

30. The Future What counts as an hour of supervision?
Should supervision parallel the delivery mode of the therapy?
Is it necessary to train as an online supervisor?
Getting down to research

31. Some Questions
How would you determine if a supervisee is suitable for online supervision?
2. What areas should be researched? What are you going to do about it?
3. What do your online supervisees gain from you that is a bonus? (or what do you gain from your online supervisor?)
4. What do your online supervisees loose by having you as a supervisor?

32. More Questions!
5. Do online supervisors need extra training on top of their training as f2f supervisors?
6. If so, does training for online supervision have to take place online?
 What should the training cover?
 How should we train counsellors to use online supervision?
  How do we see online supervision evolving and therefore training needs?

33. Thank you for your attention and thoughts.
The End!
Thank you for your attention and thoughts.