Supervision details
I'm Tom, NCPS/BACP therapist and clinical supervisor working in Chatham.
I supervise because I've been doing this work long enough to have something useful to share, and because I remember what it felt like to bring difficult sessions to supervision and not want to sound incompetent.
Supervision with me isn't a box-ticking exercise. It's not about me checking you're doing things "right" or you performing competence you don't feel yet. It's a space to actually think about the work - what's happening with your clients, what's happening in you, what you're not sure about.
I work integratively and draw on different frameworks when they're useful (Seven-Eyed Model, IDM), but mostly I'm interested in what's actually going on in the room with your clients. The stuff that's hard to name. The sessions that didn't go how you expected. The clients you're not sure you can help.
What I bring:
I've worked with men for years - the ones who don't know what they're supposed to feel, let alone say. And I work with couples, where I bring in some coaching alongside therapy because sometimes people need practical tools, not just exploration. That shapes how I supervise - I'm comfortable with relational complexity, with gender stuff, with the mess of attachment playing out between two people in real time.
I'm also Polish, trained here, practice here. I've got one foot in the "just get on with it" culture I grew up in and one foot in this work that asks people to sit with feelings they'd rather not have. That tension's useful sometimes - in my practice, in supervision.
What happens:
We talk about your cases. We pay attention to what's happening between you and your clients, and what that might mean. We think about risk, ethics, the stuff you're carrying that maybe you shouldn't be. We talk about your confidence, your boundaries, how sustainable this work actually is for you.
I'm not here to tell you what to do. I'm here to think with you.
Practically:
60 or 90-minute sessions
Online or face-to-face in Medway
English or Polish
I work with trainees, newly qualified therapists, experienced practitioners - anyone doing this work honestly
If you want supervision that's steady and relational rather than performative, get in touch. We can talk and see if it fits.
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.
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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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
