My approach to supervision draws upon my own varied experiences of receiving individual, group, and team supervision. I have myself received supervision for the best part of two decades. I am clear that supervision has been crucial to my performance and continuing development as a therapist and trainer.  Supervision continues to be an integral and nourishing component of my working week. I receive regular professional supervision on my work, as well as being part of several peer supervisory relationships. The central importance I give supervision is also why I chose to undertake specific training to enhance my practice as an individual and group supervisor.

I have experience of supervising individuals and groups, and have offered spaces for reflective practice within both clinical and commercial environments since 2010. I am experienced in supervising trainee and qualified counsellors, psychotherapists and coaches who work with adults as well as alternative practitioners and other facilitators of change. I am pleased to work with organisations to develop and support the delivery of internal coaching programmes, offering training, supervision, and consultancy input.

I believe that good supervision involves holding a space in which supervisees feel safe enough to fully bring themselves into a thoughtful and creative environment in which it is possible to deeply reflect on their work. I seek to contract with supervisees to co-create the conditions in which we may together explore the multiple processes simultaneously unfolding between themselves and their client(s), and between ourselves in supervision in order to best support them to respond to clients’ needs and address their own responses to their clients’ situations. 

My rationale to supervision is underpinned by Hawkins and Shohet's Seven Eyed Model which I embraced because it offers numerous possibilities to identify processes, reframe dilemmas, meet resistance, and move beyond stuckness. Supervision along these lines can provide appropriate levels of challenge within a supportive environment to help supervisees by enhancing awareness, deepening understanding, developing confidence in interventions, and resourcing them by paying close attention to their own self-care.

In practice I draw upon psychodynamic and psychoanalytic technique, Attachment Theory, systematic constellation work, trauma and somatic therapies, and current thinking in neuroscience. From a relational perspective, I view supervision as a collaborative process to take risks to venture into the unknown, and curiously attune to what may be presenting within and between ourselves, as well as that which may be held in the wider system which may become better known and perhaps made sense of.

More information about my supervision practice and approach can be found here.

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