Being a therapist asks a lot of you. More than most people will ever see.
Therapists hold stories that stay with them long after a session ends. You absorb emotional intensity that never makes it into your notes or charts. You carry ethical questions, countertransference, self-doubt, and the weight of systemic changes that can reshape your work overnight.
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Supervision helps build skill. Consultation helps solve problems. But the deeper internal experience of therapy work often has nowhere to go.
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Reflective consultation offers that space — a steady, confidential place to talk openly about how the work is affecting you, to explore your reactions and intuition, and to make sense of the emotional load that comes with this profession.
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It is a place to reflect with others who understand the work and where you do not have to hold everything on your own.
What is Reflective Consultation
Reflective consultation is a monthly gathering of a small group of clinicians who want to explore the human side of therapy. It is not supervision and it is not case consultation. It is a relational, grounding space where you can slow down and reflect on:
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what your work is stirring inside you
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where you feel steady or unsteady
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what you carry home after sessions
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what keeps you up at night
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the moments of emotional overload
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the places you feel stretched, uncertain, or stuck
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your body’s response to the work
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how your internal world interacts with your clinical world
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This is the part of the work clinicians often keep to themselves, and it is the part that benefits most from structured support.
Who These Groups Are For
Therapists often look for a space where they can slow down, think more deeply about their work, and feel supported by others who understand its emotional weight. These reflective consultation groups are designed for clinicians who want to feel more grounded, more connected, and less alone as they navigate the demands of the field.
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These groups are especially helpful for:
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therapists in private practice
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clinicians with emotionally heavy caseloads
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supervisors who need a reflective space of their own
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therapists who carry their sessions in their bodies
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clinicians who want to deepen their intuition
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anyone feeling the emotional load intensify over the past year
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therapists navigating complex cases without adequate support
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clinicians who miss the sense of community and reflection they once had
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If the work has been living inside you without a place to put it, this group offers a steady place to set it down and look at it together.
Meet Your Facilitator: Elizabeth Ball, LCSW
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 20 years of experience supporting children, families, and professionals in community mental health, juvenile justice, and early childhood systems of care. My work has included individual and group therapy, clinical supervision, reflective practice, and trauma-informed leadership.
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I have been involved in reflective consultation for more than 30 years — as a participant, supervisor, facilitator, and colleague. For the past several years, I have led formal reflective consultation groups and supported clinicians across a range of settings in building reflective capacity and sustaining their professional resilience.
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I am continuing this work independently because the emotional weight of therapy has grown, and clinicians deserve a consistent space that is relational, confidential, and centered on their internal experience. Reflective consultation remains one of the most meaningful aspects of my professional life.
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My approach is warm, intuitive, and grounded in the belief that therapists need a place where they can be fully human, too.
How the Groups Work
What You Will Gain
Therapists often describe reflective consultation as the support they did not realize they were missing until they experienced it. The space itself tends to create a shift, not dramatic or sudden but steady and clarifying, as clinicians begin to notice how much they have been carrying and how different it feels to finally have a place to set it down.
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You may find:
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a stronger sense of grounding in your day-to-day work
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clearer understanding of your emotional reactions and internal responses
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relief from carrying the weight of your work entirely on your own
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increased confidence when sitting with complexity or uncertainty
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reduced emotional overload and a more regulated sense of presence
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renewed connection to your intuition and clinical instincts
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healthier boundaries between work and home, and between your story and your clients’
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a sense of belonging with other clinicians who understand the emotional demands of this work
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deeper insight into yourself as a therapist and the patterns that show up in your practice
This is support for the part of you that is doing the work, the part that often goes unseen, unspoken, and unacknowledged in traditional supervision or consultation.
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