Keith Evans
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Supervision details
Although not fixed in my approach to supervision, meeting my supervisees in the same way I meet my clients, where they are at, and work collaboratively to agree what is needed, my training was in Contemplative Supervision, and this may be of interest to people seeking a way to engage with the relational and mindfulness aspects of clinical work.
Contemplative Supervision is a relationally-oriented, mindfulness-based approach, although supervisees do not need to have learned or studied this in order to find this approach useful.
It is based on 2 main embodied orientations to enquiry: Firstly, Body-Speech-Mind – carefully describing the client using these categories brings them into the room. We can then explore these aspects and how they affect the therapist and the relationship. This may often access information about transference and parallel process.
Secondly, Clarity-Spaciousness-Compassion – these are fundamental qualities of health in each of us. By noticing their presence or lack of thereof in the client, the therapist and the relationship between them, these offer a way to inhabit and explore some deeper territories of the therapeutic work.
This relational way of approaching supervision allows us to ask from the heartmind and the body not just the cognitive mind. Cognition is always in the past tense, we are thinking about something that happened. If we can stop and be in the present moment of experience, information is available.
Please contact me for an exploratory discussion and more information on availability at fees.
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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.
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.
