03/03/2026
Happy Social Work Week 🤍
This one (truthfully, as always) feels special. This week, I’m celebrating being highlighted by UofT’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work for their practicum supervision initiative and, more importantly, celebrating the actual humans who make this profession what it is.
Social work is not for the faint of heart. It asks a lot of us. I would not be the clinician, supervisor, or business owner I am without the social workers who went before me. People who answered my questions, let me sit in their offices, showed me how to hold complexity without shutting down, and reminded me that good work is, and always will be, relational. I have felt supported in my own becoming, and I take that seriously.
Since September 2025, we’ve had Rachel Shen with us as our MSW practicum student, and she’ll be wrapping up her placement at the end of March 2026 (snaps for Rachel!!). Watching her expand into the wild work of experiential psychotherapy has been blissful to see. The attunement, the courage, the willingness to stay with what is unfolding in the room instead of rushing to fix it. I repeat: it’s not easy work, and she is doing it beautifully and with courage.
Mentorship is not just about teaching someone how to write a note or structure a session. It is about protecting the heart of this profession while helping the next generation grow into their own voice. I feel protective of social work as a whole, a little fierce about it frankly, and deeply committed to continuing to mentor and support learners where ever they are in their career who are building something meaningful in this field.
To the ones who trained me, to the ones I now get to train, and to the profession that keeps stretching us all. I’m in 💛.
