Dr Claire Bloxsom
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Supervision details
I am currently completing a UKCP accredited postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Supervision at the Scarborough Counselling and Psychotherapy Training Institute. I’m therefore offering 6 initial lower cost supervision sessions (60 min per session, individually negotiated) prior to my usual fee of £65 per supervision hour (60 mins).
I've been teaching and training in the university sector since 2004, and have held a postgraduate teaching qualification for university level (PGCHE) for 10 years. In addition, I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have been an academic supervisor at university levels in psychology since 2009 and psychotherapy since 2021. I therefore have a strong appreciation of teaching and learning theory and a lot of experience working with a variety of students at both undergraduate and postgraduate including PhD.
The reason I decided to undertake this Diploma was because I want to continue my integrative journey specifically as a UKCP reg. clinical supervisor. I’m integrational at heart and wanted to spend time reflecting and weaving together my extensive teaching and academic supervison experience with contemporary clinical supervision theory for psychotherapists, counsellors, and other allied professionals such as medical doctors.
I’d describe myself as a very collaborative and relational person dedicated to the development of knowledge and reflection, and have an interest in co-creative processes, both conscious and unconscious processes in learning contexts, and how psychological processes between therapist and client might enter the supervision space. I’m especially interested in working with therapists who work with men, working with sexual diversity - especially LGB clients, and with therapists who are are working with multiple marginalised identities and cultural diversity. I’m interested in power and unconscious bias and would consider whiteness and heteronormativity as a critical topic in therapeutic work as well as in supervision.
Please also read my therapist profile for more details of clinical experience which obviously forms part of my all-round working identity.
Please contact me for more information if you feel we could work well together.
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