This can't be Supervised Away

Updated: Dec 16, 2025

There’s something the mental health system isn’t prepared for:

When the person sitting across from you — the one in the client chair — stops performing distress and starts speaking from clarity.

Not collapse.

Not chaos.

Just truth.

Spiritual. Grounded. Unmistakable.

And suddenly, the frame can’t hold.

Because this isn’t a rupture. It’s a realignment.

And no amount of supervision can undo the impact of being seen — fully, lovingly, and without distortion — by someone the system tried to contain.

This isn’t about one practitioner.

It’s about what happens when lived experience becomes field leadership, and spirituality shows up where pathology was expected.

You can’t case-note that.

You can’t refer it onward.

You can’t supervise it away.

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