Supervision details
Clinical supervision is a vital foundation for safe, ethical, and effective counselling or psychotherapy practice. It provides a confidential, collaborative space to explore the complexities of clinical work, deepen professional insight, and sustain personal wellbeing as a practitioner.
I have adopted an approach that is integrative, trauma-informed, and rooted in safety and relational ethics. I offer a reflective space where you can bring both the challenges and the rewards of your client work, knowing they will be met with respect, curiosity, and care.
My style as a supervisor is relational, non-hierarchical, and thoughtfully challenging in approach. I bring presence, ethical clarity, and psychological depth, along with a commitment to co-creating a space where you feel both supported and stretched in your professional journey.
Some common themes that arise in supervision:
Ethical Practice
Navigate the ever-evolving landscape of ethical decision-making with clarity and integrity. We’ll explore boundaries, confidentiality, dual roles, and the subtleties of ethical dilemmas in real-life practice.
Client and Practitioner Safety
Ensuring safety, emotional, psychological, and physical is central. Supervision offers a space to assess and strengthen the containment of your work, manage risk, and support both your clients’ and your own nervous system regulation.
Transference & Countertransference
Deepen your understanding of the unconscious dynamics at play in the therapeutic relationship. We’ll explore the meanings behind emotional responses and use these moments as gateways to insight, empathy, and clinical effectiveness.
Good Practice & Continuing Professional Development
Supervision is a space to reflect on your technique, presence, and evolving identity as a therapist. It supports continuous growth, alignment with professional standards, and a commitment to best practice across modalities.
Working with Challenge
Whether you're facing complex client presentations, burnout, self-doubt, or rupture and repair in the therapeutic alliance, supervision provides a container for honest reflection, grounded feedback, and ongoing support.
I have extensive experience of counselling young people and adults across the Voluntary Sector, NHS, Education, EAP, Insurance and in private practice.
My supervision practice has welcomed practitioners and trainees from a variety of working environments, counselling approaches and professional bodies.
During my time as a clinical supervisor I have had the opportunity to successfully support supervisees through their journey to professional body accreditation.
COSCA is the professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland, and seeks to advance all forms of counselling and psychotherapy and the use of counselling skills by promoting best practice and through the delivery of a range of sustainable services. COSCA Counsellor Accreditation is a pathway to entry onto the UKRC. It is a requirement of all individual and organisational members of COSCA to abide by its Statement of Ethics and Code of Practice and be accountable to the Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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.
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.
