Supervision details
I am an experienced supervisor with 20 years of clinical experience, and I have successfully supported and developed therapists from a variety of orientations: integrative, person-centred, art psychotherapy, transactional analysis, and psychodynamic.
I prefer a collegial approach to supervision to an authoritarian one. I believe that I have a responsibility to my supervisees, not for my supervisees. I also believe in supporting supervisees in developing their own authority and way of working that feels true to who they are, their values and their favoured theories and methodologies. I have experience working with individuals and groups in a variety of settings, including NHS, NGOs, training institutes, and private practice. I have worked as an assessor and have been an examiner on viva exams.
I am a senior academic lecturer at Metanoia Institute in London, so I understand the academic and clinical rigours expected of trainee psychotherapists and I am happy to discuss supervision reports, tapes, essays and dissertations.
I have written academic papers and delivered workshops on various psychotherapy issues. I like to share ideas, experiences, and clinical stories and reflect on issues I have grappled with in private practice: the experience of being silenced in the room, the neurobiological processes of stress, working with groups, conducting assessments, and surviving a client's suicide.
I am deeply committed to providing evidence that what I do works, and furthering knowledge in the field of psychotherapy. I conduct clinical research using pragmatic case study methodology and the hermeneutic single-case efficacy study. I am very interested in working with clinicians who want to develop an ethical evidence-based practice. I am available to discuss a wide range of psychotherapy issues such as: dual diagnosis working with clients with mood and personality disorders, psychosomatic disorders (hysteria), attachment disorders processing distressing/disturbing emotional response to a client's erotic transference assessing suicide risk, and working with suicidal clients recovering after a client's suicide dealing with professional complaints ethics the myths of psychotherapy burnout and self-care academic writing case study research auto-ethnography qualitative research neuroscience
I offer face-to-face, telephone, and Skype supervision.
Fees: £100/hour. (If you really want to work with me but cannot afford my standard fee, it is worth having a conversation about concessions).
Fees for group supervision, lasting two hours, two or three individuals: £100 each.
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