Supervision details
Hello, I am a clinical supervisor offering supervision to trainees and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists. My approach is integrative and collaborative, centred in relational and psychodynamic principles. I provide a reflective, containing and professionally grounded space in which to think about clinical work, therapeutic processes and practitioner development.
The supervision I aim to offer is a supportive space where we can think together about the client’s clinical material alongside less visible relational and unconscious dynamics that may be shaping the work.
My hope for supervision is to support you to think not only about what is happening in your client's life, but also about what is being communicated, repeated, defended against or unconsciously evoked within the therapeutic relationship itself.
You do not need to be a relational or psychodynamic trained therapist to work with me in supervision. I work with therapists from a range of modalities and can integrate relational and psychodynamic thinking in a way that complements and enriches your existing clinical approach.
I see supervision as central to the development of clinical practice. I work at relational depth, focusing on ethical clarity and developing and deepening clinical confidence and competence. I welcome supervisees who are looking for support with a range of clinical and professional issues, including:
- Thinking about client work through an integrative, and/or relational and/or psychodynamic lens.
- Exploring unconscious dynamics, including transference and countertransference, attachment patterns, parallel process, enactment, projection, repetition, resistance and emotional communication.
- Concentrating on the roots of difficulties, not only symptoms.
- Deepening clinical confidence and further developing your therapeutic voice and identity.
- Developing the use-of-self and making sense of the therapist's own emotional responses as clinically meaningful.
- Working with complexity, ambivalence, ambiguity and the demands of therapeutic clinical work.
- Safe but stretching – supporting you to think deeply about complex presentations while maintaining your resilience and professional identity.
- Developing clinical skills including complex assessment, formulation and treatment planning; Risk assessment, safeguarding and multi-agency liaison; Ethical decision making and clinical governance; Outcome measures, psychometrics and record keeping.
While my core orientation is integrative, based in relational and psychodynamic, I am also trained in CBT, CFT, ACT, couples, systemic/family therapy and existential psychotherapy and take an integrative approach in practice.
I work with both trainees and qualified practitioners. For trainees, I offer a supportive and thoughtful space to build confidence, integrate learning with practice and develop clinical understanding. For qualified practitioners, I offer in-depth supervision that supports ongoing reflection, professional development and sustaining engagement with clinical work.
If you'd like to know more, I offer a free 15-20 minute consultation call. This gives you a chance to meet me, learn more about how I work, discuss your needs, and decide whether we're a good fit to work together.
If you choose to continue, we'll arrange a time for our first session.
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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