Supervision details
Are you a counsellor working with children, teenagers, young adults or young people and looking for a warm, supportive and reflective supervision space?
I offer specialist clinical supervision for counsellors working therapeutically with young people aged 11–30. I have extensive experience of working with this age group and understand the particular rewards and challenges that can come with supporting young people through anxiety, identity, relationships, transitions, education, family dynamics and emotional development.
I am currently completing specialist training in clinical supervision and am welcoming a small number of supervisees while I develop my supervision practice.
I believe good supervision should feel like a space where you can bring anything. Including the sessions that didn't go as planned, the clients you find yourself thinking about between sessions, uncertainty about your therapeutic approach, or situations where you're simply not sure what to do next.
Supervision isn't about having all the answers. For me, it is about creating the space to slow down, become curious and think together about what might be happening within the therapeutic work.
My approach is collaborative, relational, compassionate and appropriately challenging. I want you to feel supported while also having the opportunity to develop your clinical thinking, confidence and professional identity.
The 7-Eyed Model of supervision
I use the 7-Eyed Model of supervision as a framework for exploring your clinical work.
The model allows us to look at different aspects of the therapeutic process, including the client, your interventions, the therapeutic relationship, what may be happening between you and your client, and your own responses to the work.
This can be particularly helpful when working with young people, where there may be additional layers to consider, such as parents and carers, schools, safeguarding, confidentiality and other professionals.
Specialist supervision for counsellors working with ages 11–30
My particular area of interest is supervision for counsellors working with:
Children and young people aged 11–18
Teenagers and adolescents
Young adults aged 18–30
School and college-based counselling
Young people experiencing anxiety, low mood or social anxiety
Identity and self-esteem difficulties
Relationships and attachment
Neurodivergent young people
Transitions and significant life changes
Creative therapeutic work with young people
I am also interested in supporting counsellors who use creative and integrative approaches, including therapeutic writing, storytelling, art, metaphor, bibliotherapy and other creative ways of engaging young clients.
Integrative and creative supervision
My own therapeutic background is integrative, drawing on person-centred, CBT, psychodynamic and solution-focused approaches.
I believe supervision should be flexible enough to accommodate different therapeutic orientations and different ways of working. We can think together about the theory behind your work, your interventions, the therapeutic relationship and, importantly, what your client may be communicating beyond their presenting issue.
I also believe that supervision can be creative. Sometimes a metaphor, image, piece of writing or different way of looking at a case can help us understand something that talking about it alone hasn't quite reached.
Supporting you as a developing counsellor
Whether you are a newly qualified counsellor building confidence, an experienced practitioner wanting a different perspective, or someone who specialises in working with young people, I aim to provide supervision that supports both your clinical practice and your development as a therapist.
We can use supervision to explore:
Clinical decision-making
Therapeutic relationships and dynamics
Transference and countertransference
Boundaries
Ethical dilemmas
Safeguarding
Confidentiality when working with under-18s
Working with parents, carers and other professionals
Difficult or stuck therapeutic relationships
Your emotional responses to clients
Self-care and the impact of the work
Developing your professional confidence and identity
My supervision style
I want supervision to be a place where you can be honest, curious and human.
You don't need to arrive with a perfectly formulated case or know exactly what you want to discuss. Sometimes the most useful starting point is simply, “Something about this client isn't sitting right with me.”
Together, we can explore what's happening, consider different perspectives and identify what might help you move forward.
My aim is that you leave supervision feeling more grounded, clearer in your thinking and more confident in your practice.
Introductory supervision rate
As I complete my clinical supervision training, I am offering a free first supervision session so that we can meet, talk about your practice and see whether we feel like a good fit.
Following this, supervision sessions are offered at an introductory rate of £45 per session while I complete my training.
I am intentionally keeping my supervision caseload small so that I can offer supervisees a thoughtful, personalised and consistent experience.
If you are looking for clinical supervision for counselling with children, teenagers or young adults, I would be very happy to hear from you.
Sessions are available online or over the phone, providing a confidential and flexible space for supervision wherever you are based.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
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