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N O RT H C E N T R A L U N I V E R S I T Y: N C U M F T S U P E RV I S O R C O R N E R 6 ANGELA SKURTU M.Ed., LMFT, AASECT Tell us about your clinical training/licensure, experience, and current work setting/location. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist and an AASECT-certified sex therapist. I did my master's at the University of Oregon and bachelor's at the University of Hawaii. I've been in business for eight and a half years now, but doing therapy since 2008. I'm currently in the process of getting AAMFT-approved as a supervisor, but I've been doing supervision for years. My current practice is a mix of couples, individual adults, and sex therapy clients. I do infidelity work, as it is honestly the most common presenting problem that brings people in, as well as anxiety and transitions. How would you describe your supervision style in just three words? Collaborative. Directive. Self-care. Collaborative because it's a work in progress. We each have to put effort into it, and I want to make sure whatever my intern is doing, they're getting the most out of their training. Although I have certain things I feel like people should know, and that is where directive comes in. There are some things that show up often enough that it's not "wishy washy." I'm very direct and to the point with those things. I'd say self-care oriented because I know that, especially with new therapists, if they don't get a good self-care regiment, they're going to go crazy at some point. People have completely left the field or taken full-year sabbaticals where they're just trying to figure out "Who am I?". When you're taking on people's problems, if you don't have some kind of self-care regiment, you're going to fall apart. It's always a work in progress for me too, by the way. How do you maintain self-care? In between sessions, I'll take walks and spin on people's problems. I will do yoga at the end of the night. I know the limits of fights or couples I can handle before I'm going to crash. I let my partner know "I need to do yoga before I can even talk to you effectively and I'll probably be a little blasé for the night." I also putz around the house. I'll have nights where I organize, or I let my thoughts ruminate. A lot of what I need to do is just let my brain spin, so I need spaces where that can happen productively. Being alone in my thoughts really helps me a lot. When the weather is nice, I'll do that while hiking. I realized that I'm a socializer. The reality is my hobby is socializing. I'm an extrovert, a very extreme extrovert, so I did have to take on a hobby during the pandemic – I did start