Alex Neumann
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Supervision details
Why supervision
Supervision is an important support for your professional development and can help you grow your practice, expand your skills as well as ensure the safety and well-being of both yourself and your clients.
Many therapists and coaches enjoy learning from a variety of approaches, and my supervision, while grounded in my Gestalt therapy training, also includes systemic thinking, influences from existential and spiritual practices as well as a focus on embodied experience.
My approach
Rather than from one fixed school of thought, my supervision approach is relational, which means the focus of our work will be on exploring, and better making sense of, what might be happening between you and your client, and how this is affected by the wider context for both of you. We will also apply the same lense to our supervision work together, aiming to find new possibilities where stuck or learn new things about yourself through these relationships.
NOTE: I offer supervision with UK practitioners one-to-one online via Zoom only.
Fees
The fee is 85£ for a 60 minute one-to-one supervision session. These usually take place monthly or fortnightly.
Group supervision fees to be discussed.
Topics we could work on (for example)...
- how to grow your practice and finding your ‘niche’
- adapting safely and ethically to various contexts (agencies, short-term work, businesses)
- switching between therapy and coaching and where you stand
- holding boundaries
- clear contracting
- practical issues such as marketing, rooms, insurance, data protection your feelings about money, charging fees, and making the transition from unpaid work
- self-confidence, 'not feeling ready' or 'saying no'
- how to incorporate creative experiments into your existing approach
- explore counter-transference and difficult feelings that arise in your work
- identifying your strengths, vulnerabilities and growing edges
- managing risk and boosting your self-support
- developing your own style - incorporating new approaches or letting go of old ones
Experience
I have worked for several years as a team leader at The Awareness Centre with the NHS IAPT, where I helped a team of over 25 therapists in their placements through to qualification.
I have several years of experience working as a coach for startup founders and people who want to make a business out of their passion, and have co-led groups of 40-50 people through career change and life change programmes at Escape the City as well as run creative workshops for children and adults myself.
I successfully set up my own group practice The London Practice in Central London and now a second group practice in Berlin Germany, and have informally helped newly qualified therapists in finding their style as a practitioner and their feet in starting out on their own.
I look forward to hearing from you at alex@thelondonpractice.org
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Accredited register membership
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