Supervision details
I currently have a small number of spaces available online for supervision. I work with practitioners who see clients aged 18 and over, and I focus on supervising counsellors, psychotherapists, trainees, and other helping professionals working with adults. If your client work is primarily with children and young people, it will be more appropriate to work with a supervisor who specialises in that area.
My approach is warm, collaborative and thoughtful. I want supervision to be somewhere you can talk openly about your work – including the clients you feel confident with, the ones who leave you wondering what to do next, ethical dilemmas, mistakes, uncertainty and the emotional impact of being a therapist. Supervision with me is not about being told how to practise. It is a space to think together, develop your clinical confidence and maintain safe, ethical and sustainable practice.
How I work as a supervisor
I work integratively and relationally, adapting supervision to your experience, way of working and stage of professional development.
We might use supervision to explore client work, therapeutic relationships, risk and safeguarding, boundaries, ethical dilemmas, difference and diversity, private practice, professional development or simply the impact the work is having on you.
I draw on established supervision frameworks, including Hawkins and Shohet's Seven-Eyed Model, Proctor's model and developmental approaches, but I don't believe supervision needs to feel overly theoretical. Models are there to help us think – not to dominate the conversation.
I aim to create a relationship where you can be honest when something hasn't gone to plan, ask questions without feeling judged and bring the parts of the work that feel complicated or uncomfortable.
Neurodiversity-Affirming Clinical Supervision
I have a particular interest in supervising therapists who work with autistic, ADHD, AuDHD and other neurodivergent clients. You do not need to be neurodivergent yourself to work with me.
As a neurodivergent therapist and supervisor, I bring both professional knowledge and lived experience to this area of my work. We can think together about how neurodivergence may affect communication, sensory experience, emotional regulation, executive functioning, relationships, masking, burnout and the therapeutic process.
For neurodivergent therapists, supervision can also be a place to explore your own needs as a practitioner – including workload, energy, sensory needs, boundaries, organisation, masking and creating a way of working that is sustainable for you.
The aim isn't to make neurodivergent clients or therapists fit neurotypical expectations. It is to understand the person in context and consider what adjustments, approaches and ways of working might genuinely help.
Trauma-Informed Supervision
My work is also trauma-informed. This means paying attention not only to what is happening in the clinical work, but to safety, relationships, power, choice, pacing and the impact that difficult therapeutic work can have on us as practitioners.
What you can bring to supervision
There doesn't need to be a crisis or a particularly difficult client for something to be worth bringing.
- Supervision might include:
client work and therapeutic relationships
neurodivergence and adapting therapy - trauma and complex presentations
risk, safeguarding and ethical dilemmas
boundaries and contracting - countertransference and your responses to clients
confidence and professional identity
private practice issues - workload, burnout and sustainable practice
accreditation and professional development.
And sometimes supervision is simply a place to say, "I'm not quite sure what's happening here," and have another experienced practitioner help you think it through.
My Experience
I bring more than 14 years' experience of therapeutic work with adults, alongside experience in clinical supervision, counselling education, lecturing, CPCAB moderation at Levels 2–6 and hospice bereavement leadership.
I am a BACP Accredited Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor and have Master's-level research experience in neurodiversity and therapy.
I supervise both trainee and qualified practitioners and have supported supervisees through the BACP accreditation process.
If you require a supervision or accreditation report, I am happy to discuss this with you. Reports are charged separately to reflect the time required to prepare them (usually 3 hours work).
Supervision Fees
I offer 60-minute and 90-minute online supervision appointments, depending on your professional requirements and preferred way of working.
I also offer a concessionary rate for counselling students.
60 minutes: £90 / 90 minutes: £135 / Student rate: £60 per hour
Supervision fees are payable 24 hours before the appointment.
Interested in working together?
Finding the right supervisor matters. You need someone you can think aloud with, disagree with, ask difficult questions of and be honest with when things haven't gone quite as you hoped.
If you're looking for supervision and would like to see whether we might work well together, you're welcome to get in touch.
Contact Emma emmawestoncounselling@proton.me
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).
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