Supervision details
I offer a collaborative and reflective approach to clinical supervision, providing a space where practitioners can think openly about their client work, develop their clinical understanding and feel supported in their professional development.
I believe good supervision should be a space where you can bring not only the work that is going well, but also the cases where you feel stuck, uncertain, challenged or unsure what to do next. My approach is supportive and non-judgemental, while also being active and willing to ask questions, offer alternative perspectives and think critically with you about the work.
As an integrative psychologist, I am particularly interested in helping supervisees develop a deeper understanding of why a client's difficulties may have developed, what may be maintaining them, what is happening within their relationships and wider context, and how this understanding can inform the therapeutic work.
My own practice draws upon CBT, interpersonal, psychodynamic, person-centred and existential approaches, allowing us to think about cases from different perspectives rather than being restricted to a single therapeutic model.
Alongside case formulation and therapeutic interventions, supervision can provide space to explore the therapeutic relationship, including difficult dynamics, ruptures, boundaries, endings, risk, ethical dilemmas and the thoughts and feelings that client work can evoke in the therapist.
Who I supervise:
I offer supervision to counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and practitioners in training, subject to the requirements of your course, professional body or workplace.
Supervision can include:
- Case formulation and developing a clearer understanding of complex presentations
- Anxiety, depression, self-esteem and interpersonal difficulties
- Relationships, loss and significant life transitions
- Integrative psychological and therapeutic work
- Developing confidence and your own therapeutic style
- Therapeutic relationships, boundaries and ruptures
- Risk, safeguarding and ethical considerations
- Working within NHS and private-practice settings
- Reflecting on professional development and identity
- Thinking through cases where therapy feels stuck or progress is unclear
- I particularly enjoy working with practitioners who want supervision to be more than case management and are interested in developing their clinical thinking, confidence and identity as a therapist.
My experience:
I am an HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist and Chartered Psychologist, and Clinical Director of Alinea Psychologies.
I have experience working across NHS and private psychological services, including outpatient psychological services and specialist inpatient settings. My clinical work has included anxiety, depression, trauma, self-harm, relationship and interpersonal difficulties and more complex psychological presentations.
My doctoral research explored people's lived experiences of existential therapy for depression, and I have undertaken further specialist training in evidence-based psychological therapies for depression, including Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression (PCE-CfD).
My academic training includes a Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology & Psychotherapy, MSc Clinical Psychology, Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy and BSc (Hons) Psychology.
As Clinical Director of Alinea Psychologies, I also have experience of private practice and clinical service development, which can be incorporated into supervision where relevant.
How supervision works:
Supervision is tailored to your level of experience, therapeutic approach and professional goals.
At the beginning of our work together, we can discuss your current practice, previous experience of supervision, what you would like from our work and any requirements set by your training organisation, employer or professional body.
I want supervision to be a space where you don't feel you have to present yourself as the “perfect therapist”. Uncertainty is an important part of clinical work, and being able to think honestly about what we don't know can often lead to some of the most useful supervision.
I offer supervision online and in person, with frequency arranged according to your clinical work and professional requirements.
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.
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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