Intercultural Supervision in Therapeutic Practice

Baffour Ababio is a psychoanalytic intercultural psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in private practice and at the Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre, where he is Clinical Lead. Baffour completed his psychotherapy training at University College London and his supervision training at the Guild of Psychotherapists and is a member of UKCP and BAPPS. With Roland Littlewood, he has co-edited a volume on intercultural psychotherapy entitled Intercultural Therapy: Challenges, Insights and Developments.

‘This book is a must read for every supervisor and supervisee. The collection of chapters passionately and comprehensively delve into the interplay of intercultural elements in supervision and therapy. The authors urge supervisors and Supervisees to explore and sensitively engage with the nuances and clues of race and culture in the therapeutic process. This volume paves the way for open conversations amongst clinicians in the supervision space. A rich, deep and valuable work.’ Pınar Çakır, Trainee Counsellor at Enfield Counselling Service.‘This comprehensive collection of writings is a rare invitation to envision a supervisory space that embraces the often hidden and complex lived experiences which touch the borders of race and culture. With candour and honesty, the various authors offer the therapy profession supervisor and supervisee perspectives that provide learning, challenge and, importantly, hope.’Eugene Ellis, Author of The Race Conversation: An essential guide to creating life-changing dialogue.‘The singular achievement of this volume is its presentation of trainee chronicles within its multiple voices. It is an invitation to therapists in training to understand the many perspectives within their supervision. The book exposes the reader to a fuller realm of the experiential complexities within the supervision encounter. The writings of these practitioners are crucial, introducing us to a future generation of essayists in the clinical supervision field of race and culture. Which is often missing from other studies on supervision.’Monika Schwartz, Director of Better Practice Advisors and former CEO of Women's Therapy Centre.

• Part 1: Mapping Supervisions 1. Beyond recognition: Rac(ing) in supervision: In relation to global majority therapists-in-training and its relevance to professional identity 2. Supervision within the context of decolonisation and intersectionality 3. Drawing attention to what is and isn’t said, seen, heard, felt, and communicated in the intercultural supervisory space Part 2: Supervision and the Social 4. The reflective group process for female workers 5. Nafsiyat Refugee Project: An Intercultural Psychotherapy Supervision Model 6. Themes in an intercultural approach to supervision: Working with survivors of abuse Part 3: Developmental Perspectives 7. Passing as White - Colour blindness in the journey of a Multiracial Psychotherapist 8. An Attachment Approach to Working with Issues of Difference in an Intercultural Setting Part 4: Supervision as intercultural training [potentialities and pitfalls] 9. Interplays of Visible and Invisible Differences in the Intercultural Supervision Frame 10. My Journey with Omar in Supervision 11. Call to adventure: The pitfalls of a narrative structure for an intercultural trainee 12. Towards an intercultural supervision 13. Hidden Realities Ananse(sɛm) 14. Ananse(sɛm): Supervisory insights from his shattered pot of wisdom