Supervision details
I qualified as a Dramatherapy Clinical Supervisor in 2006. Trained with CAST at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Your role as a professional or student supervisee is to set the agenda for us both to explore, experiment and evaluate. My role is to provide professional overview and ethical guidance across a wide range of work performance and related personal agendas. I also see my role as a guide and mentor ready to affirm, inspire and emotionally support your development of insight and understanding.
In our sessions together I will:- Provide a space to offload and express personal responses and feelings that arise as a result of your work – with clients and third party stakeholders. Guide you to further develop your knowledge and professional competence. Facilitate you to further develop your emotional competence, self awareness, congruence and professional identity. Validate and support your own personal style. Reflect on and explore ways you are affected by your work with clients (e.g. effects on your feelings, actions, beliefs, values). Help you develop skills and strategies that allow you to be more effective in your role. Discuss decisions and choices you have made in the course of your work. Reflect on and develop effective and ethical practice. Work as a collaborative team to make potentially tough decisions about safety and accountability with respect to some clients. Provide opportunities to reflect on your work. Help you to plan and utilise personal and professional resources. Facilitate your understanding of your role in the wider social, legal, historical, political context. Assist you to be sensitive to issues of gender, power, diversity, difference, and culture. Assist you in problem solving. Guide you to establish and manage your ability to recognise limits. Assist you to gain insight and understanding. Support your autonomy and uniqueness. Help you to connect theory and practice
Individuals, groups and organisations
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
