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 approach to supervision draws upon my own varied experiences of receiving individual, group, and team supervision. 

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.

This is in keeping with my therapeutic approach which is relational.  In practice I draw upon psychodynamic and psychoanalytic technique, Attachment Theory, systematic constellation, trauma work and somatic therapy, 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.