Supervision
Supervision with Maria Ganci
Are you searching for an experienced and compassionate supervisor to guide you on your journey in the field of mental health, specifically in the realm of adolescent eating disorders? My passion is to share my extensive experience and knowledge to empower clinicians, like you, to develop and extend your professional skills.
Supervision with Maria Ganci
Supervision Statement
As a Clinical Social Worker and Adolescent Psychotherapist, I bring over three decades of experience in the treatment of eating disorders, grounded in my training in both family-based treatment and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. My supervision approach is developmentally informed, family-centred, and evidence-based, integrating creative, relational, and strengths-based practices to support meaningful and lasting change.
I strongly believe that effective eating disorder treatment requires a two-pronged approach—addressing both the physical and psychological aspects of the illness. Parents need support to confidently refeed their child, while clinicians must also help young people make sense of their internal world, identity struggles, and emotional distress. Treatment must honour the whole person, including their individuality, temperament, and neurodiversity—rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all model.
A key strength I bring to supervision is helping clinicians centre the adolescent’s voice in treatment, ensuring young people feel seen, heard, and empowered. I also share a range of practical tools I’ve developed—such as therapeutic cards, journals, and metaphor-based worksheets—that support meaningful adolescent engagement.
In addition, I guide clinicians in working effectively with parents, helping them understand and attune to their child’s unique needs, and fostering more connected and supportive family systems. My goal as a supervisor is to enhance clinical confidence, deepen reflective capacity, and nurture therapeutic imagination—so clinicians feel equipped to deliver safe, collaborative, and truly individualised care.
I provide supervision in the following modalities:
Family Based Treatment (FBT) & Parent Focused Treatment (PFT): Both FBT & PFT have been found to be effective treatments for children and adolescents under the age of 19 and with a duration of illness less than three years.
Adolescent & Parent Treatment (APT): APT is a newly developed treatment with its origins stemming from the work of Dr. Ann Moye, Michigan, USA. APT takes a two-pronged approach by addressing both the physical and psychological aspects of the illness. APT supports parents with intensive refeeding and simultaneously provides psychological support to the adolescent.
Supervision and consultation is also available on how to Set up a Parent Education & Training Skills Workshop. The inclusion of parents in any adolescent treatment is critical to support treatment and ensure improved outcomes. Supervision will support the Parent Education & Skills Training I provide which guides and informs clinicians to understand what parents need to know in order to manage and support their adolescent.