Supervision details
I offer clinical supervision to trainee and qualified counsellors, psychotherapists and helping professionals, providing a reflective, professionally held and psychologically safe space to explore clinical work, ethical practice and professional development. My supervisory style is relational, supportive and appropriately challenging, balancing reflection, accountability and growth.
My supervisory practice is grounded in person-centred values and informed by more than 25 years of experience across mental health services, psychotherapy, trauma-informed practice, wellbeing and reflective practice. Alongside my private practice, I spent almost 14 years with the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), reviewing highly sensitive and complex cases involving vulnerability, trauma, bereavement and significant emotional impact. This experience has strengthened my understanding of resilience, risk, safeguarding, organisational systems and the emotional impact of working with complexity.
I work from the Seven-Eyed Supervision Process Model, using it as a flexible framework to explore client work, the therapeutic relationship, supervisee experience and wider organisational and systemic influences. This allows us to think deeply about the relational, ethical and contextual factors shaping therapeutic practice.
I view supervision as a collaborative and developmental process rather than a purely managerial one. Sessions provide space to explore clinical material, safeguarding, risk, ethical dilemmas, transference and countertransference, professional identity and practitioner wellbeing. My aim is to support supervisees in developing confidence, strengthening clinical judgement and deepening reflective capacity whilst remaining attentive to professional responsibility.
I have particular experience supporting practitioners working with trauma, attachment, neurodiversity, grief, identity development, relationship difficulties, high-conflict relational dynamics and emotionally complex presentations. My background as a TRiM Practitioner, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) Manager and Reflective Practice Facilitator enables me to bring additional perspectives when working with uncertainty, complexity, vicarious trauma and burnout.
For trainee therapists, I offer a supportive and structured environment that recognises the demands of training, placement requirements and assessment processes. I have a particular interest in helping trainees integrate theory with practice, develop confidence and find their own authentic therapeutic voice.
For qualified practitioners, supervision provides a reflective space for deeper exploration, ethical accountability, professional development and sustained wellbeing within practice.
I am a Level 7 qualified Clinical Supervisor, a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and I work in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework. I undertake regular supervision and continuing professional development to ensure my supervisory practice remains ethical, reflective and responsive to the evolving needs of supervisees.
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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