Ed Watkins’ primary supervision interests are focused on these areas: humility and its supervision applications/implications; rupture and rupture repair in supervision; the contextual supervision relationship model and its supervision applications/implications; and trans-theoretical and psychoanalytic approaches to supervision practice.

Ed has the good fortune to supervise a year-long practicum team in his department’s Psychology Clinic. The team is composed of about seven to nine students in the doctoral program; the students are in either their first, second, or third program year. First years are largely in a listen-observe-learn role, giving them a chance to get acclimated to the team and its workings. Second and third years provide therapy and assessment services, all their work being videotaped for supervision purposes. Second and third years receive one hour of individual supervision each week, and the entire group meets for a two-hour team meeting each week.

Ed also leads a supervision seminar, composed mostly of advanced students who are nearing their internship year.

Fun fact: Ed loves running; he has been a runner for decades. Running gives Ed a such a wonderful feeling of freedom, and he hopes that that will continue to be so for a long time yet!

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