Comedy Therapy Clinical Supervision
I imagine supervision in comedy therapy like the stage lights at a comedy show…
Here in Denver, I love the intimacy of Rise Comedy’s main blackbox theater. This is a place where improvisers build whole worlds out of nothing but trust and play. This is the theater I picture…
The supervisee is the performer… taking risks, experimenting with timing, and learning to trust that even “mistakes” can become material for growth.
The supervisor is the steady spotlight operator, not performing the scene, but making sure the space is illuminated, safe, and inviting enough for the supervisee’s creativity to flourish.
Sometimes, the supervisor brightens the light to highlight a strength or insight that might otherwise go unseen.
Other times, the supervisor dims the intensity, allowing more space for reflection and vulnerability… helping the supervisee to co-regluate.
Together, they share in the rhythm of risk and play…the supervisor ensuring the “stage” of supervision is a boundaried but forgiving space where the supervisee can try, stumble, and discover new therapeutic moves, knowing they are supported and safe enough to really shine!
Rogers (1961) defined self-actualization as, “the curative force in psychotherapy – man’s tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities...to express and activate all the capacities of the organism” (p. 350).
I strongly believe that each individual possesses the innate drive towards self-actualization. In comedy therapy supervision, self-actualization emerges as strengthened self-and-other awareness and emotional attunement, improved confidence in your ability to provide the conditions for therapeutic growth, and expanded faith in your clinical intuition and judgment.
As an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Regis Center for Play Therapy, I currently teach Human Growth and Development, Introduction to Play Therapy, Advanced Play Therapy, Play Clinic A, and Play Clinic B. I practice child-centered play therapy and provide supervision through that theoretical lens, and I strongly believe that comedy therapy is play therapy for adults! I am also strongly grounded in polyvagal and attachment theory. I received my PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision in 2017 from the University of Northern Colorado. I am a Registered Play Therapist with the Association for Play Therapy and Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado. I started Comedy Is Therapy with iO-Trained Improviser Stephanie Itzkowitz in 2020, and we have been running groups and growing ever since!
Let’s work together.
Interested in beginning a supervisory relationship or scheduling a one-off supervision session with me? Fill out this form, and then schedule an introductory call with me here or just jump right into scheduling your session. I am looking forward to getting to know you and supporting your goals. My supervision fee is currently $100/50-minute session.