Supervision details
Presence-Centred Supervision: Beyond the Professional Persona
Supervision is more than a place to bring difficult clients, ethical questions or clinical uncertainty.
For me, it is also a space to slow down enough to notice how we are meeting our work — what we bring to the room, what gets stirred in us, what we may be avoiding, and what becomes possible when we meet ourselves and our clients with greater presence. Expanded depth orientation to what we TRULY mean by Presence ? We gently uncover the unconscious stories and patterns that shape your client work, rooting ourselves in what contemplative traditions call Buddha Nature and what Internal Family Systems (IFS) names Self-energy.
I offer supervision to psychotherapists, counsellors, coaches, and other helping professionals who want both professional rigour and a deeper exploration of the person behind the professional role.
My approach is grounded, relational and thoughtful, while remaining open to the contemplative, embodied, imaginal, symbolic and ecological dimensions of practice.
The professional and the person
We all develop a professional persona. It can provide valuable structure, confidence and protection. But sometimes it can also become something we hide behind.
Supervision can offer an opportunity to notice what sits underneath that persona.
What happens in you when a client withdraws, becomes dependent, challenges you or reminds you of something unresolved in yourself? Where do you feel uncertainty in your body? What assumptions, projections or habitual ways of responding might be shaping the work?
I am interested in these moments not as evidence that something has gone wrong, but as invitations to become more curious about what is happening within the therapeutic relationship.
This is where supervision can become both rigorous and deeply human.
Rigour, presence and reflection
My supervisory practice is grounded in the Hawkins & Shohet integrative model, alongside my experience as a supervisor, supervisor trainer and educator at the University of Salford.
This provides an important professional and ethical foundation for our work and it means i have worked with people from a wide range of backgrounds .
Within that framework, I bring a particular emphasis on presence: the capacity to pause, attend, sense and think before moving towards interpretation or action.
We may explore the clinical material, the wider systems surrounding your work, ethical and professional questions, and the dynamics unfolding between you and your client.
We may also become curious about your own responses — including feelings, bodily sensations, images, dreams, intuitions, assumptions and uncertainties — and consider what they might be telling us about the work.
The aim is not to treat intuition as infallible or to replace clinical thinking with inner knowing.
Rather, it is to develop discernment: the capacity to listen to different forms of information while remaining grounded in professional responsibility, reflection and evidence.
Beyond the professional persona
My work is deeply influenced by depth psychology, Jungian and archetypal perspectives, contemplative approaches, embodiment and ecopsychology as well as decolonial systems thinking and ways of being that are inspired from ancient cultures. Part of this is also my heritage as a descendant of the Minoans in Crete.
These perspectives invite us to consider psychological experience as more than a collection of symptoms or techniques.
Sometimes an image, metaphor, dream, bodily response or recurring relational pattern can open a different way of understanding what is happening.
Sometimes what appears to be a professional difficulty touches something more personal.
And sometimes we encounter experiences of uncertainty, transition, loss or not-knowing for which there is no immediate solution.
I value the liminal spaces in supervision — the thresholds where something is changing but has not yet become clear.
Rather than rushing to close these spaces down, we can learn to stay with them carefully and see what they reveal.
Embodied and creative supervision
Where appropriate, supervision may extend beyond conventional conversation.
We might attend to what is happening in your body as you describe a client or a particular moment in the work. We might use an image, metaphor, drawing, object, movement or another creative process to approach material that is difficult to articulate verbally.
We may explore dreams, symbols, archetypal themes or stories that arise in relation to your professional life.
For practitioners who find it useful, I also offer Walk & Talk supervision in suitable outdoor settings, creating space to think and reflect while moving through the natural environment.
My interest in ecopsychology brings attention to the relationship between psychological life and the wider living world. I consider it our most sacred duty as space holders to become visionaries in the wider communities and hold space for clients empowering them to ripple further in their communities.
I am so attuned to the moment of our encounter. The approaches i offer as invitations are not techniques that have to be used. They are curious alive inquiries. We follow what is relevant to you, your practice and the particular moment you are bringing to supervision.
A place to bring the whole of your experience
You don't need to arrive with everything figured out. In fact uncertainty is "fertile ground" i cherish deeply.
You can bring a difficult client, a professional dilemma, a relationship that has become complicated, a feeling that something isn't quite right, or simply a sense that you want to think more deeply about your practice. I want supervision to be a place where you can think honestly without having to perform competence.
There is room for expertise and not-knowing, confidence and doubt, clarity and confusion. I see supervision a wonderful exploratory territory to learn to hold PARADOX.
My intention is to offer a relationship that is warm, spacious, intellectually rigorous and willing to ask difficult questions when they matter.
Together we can explore not only what you are doing in your work, but how you are being as you do it.
Who this supervision may speak to
This work may particularly suit practitioners who are interested in:
Deepening their reflective and relational practice
Exploring embodiment and the practitioner's own responses
Working thoughtfully with intuition and discernment
Understanding projection, transference and relational dynamics
Exploring symbolic, imaginal and archetypal material
Bringing contemplative perspectives into professional reflection
Considering ecological and nature-based dimensions of practice
Navigating professional transitions, uncertainty or periods of change
Thinking beyond technique while remaining grounded in professional and ethical practice
Exploring the relationship between personal development and professional identity
I work with practitioners at different stages of their professional lives, including experienced therapists who want a space for deeper reflection on their practice.
The supervision relationship
For me, supervision is ultimately a relationship.
The quality of our attention matters.
The space between us matters.
What emerges in the here-and-now of supervision can itself become valuable material for reflection.
I will bring curiosity, challenge, compassion and honesty. I will not assume that I know what your experience means, and I will not ask you to adopt a particular spiritual or psychological worldview.
Instead, we can become curious together.
There may be moments of clarity. There may also be moments when we simply need to stay with a question.
Sometimes the most valuable thing supervision offers is not another answer, but the capacity to see differently, remain present and respond with greater freedom.
A first conversation
I offer an initial meeting so that we can meet, talk about what you are looking for and sense whether this way of working feels right for you.
There is no expectation that you need to arrive with a particular agenda.
Come with what is alive in your practice.
We can begin there.
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
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