Claire Field

I offer person-centred supervision. The session length can be set to your requirements.   My standard rate is £60 per 50 minute session.  If you need to contact me between sessions, you can text me to arrange a short consultation by telephone at no extra charge, or to arrange a sooner supervision session if there is an emergency or something that cannot wait until the next session - this may be face to face, ZOOM or by telephone. I understand supervision from within a person-centred framework. Therefore I believe that each one of us are essentially trustworthy, that we all have a formative tendency that impels us towards growth, that we are all experts on ourselves and that when we are supported within a supervisory relationship that provides certain conditions, we know best how to achieve our growth and personal and professional development. I see personal development as integral to professional development. It includes developing an internal locus of evaluation (trust in one’s inner perceptions and intuition); acceptance of self and others and the capacity to put aside one’s own views and feelings in order to understand how something is from another person’s perspective.  As a person-centred supervisor I will be interested in supporting you as supervisee in your continuing process of developing congruence, in order to support you to work with your clients at relational depth.  Another aspect of professional development where supervision may be valuable is a peer discussion regarding what may be useful for you in terms of reading and further training. Collaborative supervision involves myself as supervisor and you as supervisee engaging together to understand and to explore supervisory material such as the relationships between you and your clients, any ethical issues and your professional development. This is a joint process and it is understood that each of us has something important to bring to this enquiry.  As a person-centred practitioner I understand that a warm, trusting and respectful relationship is likely to best support a collaborative supervisory process.  I hope that you will experience me as warm and valuing of you as a person-who-is-a-counsellor, and that our supervision sessions are a space where you will come to feel safe to explore your vulnerabilities as they relate to your client work and counselling role. I will aim to be congruent in the supervisory relationship with you, so that I am willing to share my awareness of what I am experiencing whilst with you, when therapeutic or helpful. Whilst offering acceptance and a deep valuing of you, I will be willing to give you honest feedback when necessary, and to listen and hear any personal feedback from you and welcome discussion. I consider it essential that you feel comfortable enough within supervision to be self reflective and to explore your client work openly, including areas that you are uncertain about or that you feel unhappy with. Ethical dilemmas can often occur in client work, and supervision is a space which can support the working through of these.  Using whichever ethical framework your subscribe to, we can look at the situation non-judgementally (holding ourselves in unconditional positive self-regard) so as to reach a conclusion about the best possible way forward. I feel it is important to be aware of our own thoughts and feelings behind any ethical issues - for example with ethical boundary issues, and an opportunity to explore openly and with purpose the function the boundary serves in supervision may bring awareness about its relevance to a particular circumstance.  I hope this page is helpful in making your decision about whether to come to me for supervision. If you have any questions please feel free to phone or e-mail me.