Clinical Supervision
Melissa Clews-Hunt
Drawing from the foundation of systemic therapy, I integrate ecotherapy in my clinical supervision approach. I provide support to you as a therapist to respond to your clients’ climate distress, and to explore ways as a therapist that you can be part of the response to the earth crisis of our time.
Ecotherapy Clinical Supervision for Therapists
Our clinical supervision meetings can take place outdoors, virtually, or by phone while you walk in nature. We integrate nature based experiential exercises to benefit your wellbeing and that you can offer to your clients. Many of our clients are experiencing concerns about climate change, eco anxiety, eco distress, or uncertainty about the future. In the ways we invite our clients to heal relationships, we can draw on our unique stance as therapists to inspire a wider healing in our relationship with the earth.
Ecotherapy draws from a systemic lens to include our relationship with all of the earth.
As a clinical supervisor I offer a space that is warm, strength based, and systemic. As we honour your unique strengths, I support each therapist to deepen your own clinical style.
As we process some of the complexity of this work, I welcome opportunities to draw on your intuition as a potential source of wisdom. I invite explorations of safe and effective use of self, or who you are as a human in your clinical work. I support therapists to integrate antioppressive practice into your work. Together we explore ways power and privilege impact the therapeutic relationship, identify intersectionality of your social location and those of your clients, hold awareness for the ways our current society privileges some and disempowers others, and humbly consider ways we participate in these oppressive systems. Uncover ways we can work to dismantle oppression to promote justice in who we are as humans, as therapists, and in our wider profession.
For experienced therapists who are looking to connect clinically, I also provide clinical consultation. I feel privileged that therapists often choose to continue to work together after their accreditation needs are complete.
Clinical Supervision Services
In Clinical Supervision, you will gain perspective and learn about clinical approaches in either an outdoor setting or virtual meetings. There is no need for prior ecotherapy experience to take part in this service.
Group Supervision for Therapists
Melissa Clews-Hunt invites a collaborative space to cocreate safety and vulnerability together. Explore how to integrate ecotherapy and anti oppressive practice into our clinical work. Outdoor group clinical supervision is available. Maximum of 6 therapists attend, and counts toward CRPO group supervision.
Individual Clinical Supervision
Therapists looking to expand your self reflective practices, to integrate ecotherapy into your clinical work, and to explore an anti oppressive lens. Clinical supervision is an individualized way to meet professional accreditation such as with CRPO.
Paired Clinical Supervision
Two therapists in supervision with Melissa Clews-Hunt enables both a tailored and collaborative opportunity for clinical support. Therapists interested in learning about and integrating ecotherapy can be matched together. Counts toward CRPO individual supervision.
Supervision Mentoring
(Supervision of Supervision)
Therapists working toward becoming clinical supervisors, or for experienced supervisors. Opportunities for clinical supervisors to reflect on your practice of supervision and raise themes related to supervising other therapists. Be intentional about our positions of power and privilege, explore systems of oppression including the practice of psychotherapy, and work to deconstruct oppressive systems.
Clinical Consultation
Experienced therapists who are looking for ongoing professional support beyond the need for accreditation. Frequency of meetings is often suited to your intentions.
Clinical Supervision Services Include:
Outdoor Clinical Supervision
Walk together, pause to integrate earth connection practices to support you in your work and that you can share with your clients, and be able to respond to themes your clients are raising about fears for the earth.
Online Supervision
For therapists who work across Ontario, integrate ecotherapy concepts and practices, engage in earth connection practices virtually.
CRPO Supervision
Clinicians applying to the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (a recognized CRPO Supervisor).
CACFT Supervision
Therapists working toward becoming a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist with Canadian Association for Couple & Family Therapy. Melissa Clews-Hunt is a CACFT Approved Supervisor.
CACFT Supervision of Supervision
Therapists working toward becoming a RMFT Supervisor with Canadian Association for Couple & Family Therapy, Melissa Clews-Hunt is a CACFT Supervisor Mentor.
For therapists interested in a more unique outdoor meeting in the winter, we can x-country ski or snowshoe together. Drawing from Indigenous origins of snowshoeing, together we can offer back reciprocity.
As we snowshoe we can acknowledge the land and the original peoples of this land, the past and current impacts of colonization, systemic barriers that exist in our work and profession, and invite ways we can work toward creating more equity for Indigenous people.
About Melissa Clews-Hunt
MSC, RP, RMFT-SM | THERAPIST & CLINICAL SUPERVISOR
PRONOUNS: SHE/HER
I am a Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario, a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, and an Approved Supervisor & Supervisor Mentor with the Canadian Association for Couple and Family Therapy (CACFT).
In addition to my clinical training and experience, my specialty is including nature in my work. That could be outdoor therapy sessions walking together and pausing to attune to the earth, meeting virtually to address eco anxiety concerns, or having a phone session while walking in a forest. I have been providing clinical supervision to therapists for approximately 20 years. I bring warmth, intelligence, open-mindedness, and creativity into my work. I am an outdoor enthusiast and a proud mom of two children.
Therapy Services
Outdoor Therapy
Integrating the calm and restorative presence of the natural world into our therapy conversations can bring peace, perspective, and can illuminate how interconnected we all are. Outdoor therapy sessions allow us to stroll through forests, sit in the presence of a river, or even x-country ski!
Virtual & Phone Therapy
Phone sessions can enable you to get out to a local trail and integrate the healing presence of nature in our conversations. Virtual sessions are a space to explore how themes in your personal life are impacted by the wider systems we are a part of, and how your own healing sends ripples out to all of the earth.
Couples Therapy
Support for couples to open healing conversations, to reconnect, and to strengthen your bond together. Outdoor therapy sessions can support your connection together and with the natural world.
Family Therapy
Intentional space to have brave conversations together, to realign shared values, and to strengthen your relationships together. Outdoor sessions can integrate a sense of openness, creativity, and playfulness. Adult families as well as families with children and youth are welcome.