Supervision details
Supervision Approach
I believe supervision should be stimulating, supportive, inspiring and developmental. My approach is informed by Hawkins and Shohet’s Seven-Eyed Model, alongside Proctor’s three core functions of supervision: formative, normative and restorative.
Formative: Supporting learning and development by enhancing skills, knowledge, confidence and professional practice.
Normative: Maintaining ethical and professional standards, with consideration of relevant legal, organisational and professional requirements.
Restorative: Providing emotional support when practitioners are working with challenging client material, including space to explore personal responses, workload pressures and self-care.
I offer a supportive, safe, non-judgemental, reflective and collaborative space where we can work together to explore client material, professional development and the emotional and ethical impact of the work. I encourage creative exploration, grounded in openness, honesty and thoughtful challenge, while remaining attentive to each supervisee’s individual needs, experience and way of working.
I bring nearly twenty years’ experience as a counsellor and psychotherapist, alongside eight years’ experience as a supervisor in private practice. For over four years, I supervised both individuals and groups within a large London training agency. I provide supervision to NHS staff and wellbeing practitioners working in schools, as well as facilitating group supervision for professionals supporting people affected by modern slavery, domestic abuse and homelessness.
In addition, I have thirty years’ experience working within education, particularly SEND and children’s and families’ social care, including adoption and fostering. This has given me extensive knowledge and experience of working with children, young people and families and has further informed my understanding of the complexities of this work.
I provide supervision for practitioners who are experienced or in training, working with adults, couples, families and young people. I aim to create a space where supervisees feel supported and appropriately challenged, enabling them to develop their confidence, deepen their reflective practice and sustain themselves in their professional work.
I am committed to working within a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage open discussions around experiences of inequality, marginalisation and anti-oppressive practice within the safe and supportive space of supervision.
Fees and Availability
£60 per hour
Sliding scale available for student counsellors and newly qualified practitioners
Option of twice-monthly 45-minute sessions, in line with BACP recommendations of 1.5 hours of supervision per month
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
