Supervision details
About my supervision
I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist and UKCP Recognised Supervisor (RS). I have a supervision qualification from the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA), London, and offer individual and group supervision from a relational psychodynamic perspective. I am also an Associate Member of the Group Analytic Society International (GASi).
For me, supervision is somewhere a therapist can think. It is not a place where you are expected to arrive with a polished account of your clinical work, or already know what everything means.
There are times when a patient stays with us after a session, when we feel unusually anxious, protective, irritated, helpless or drawn into something we cannot quite understand. These responses can tell us something important. Supervision gives us the opportunity to slow things down and become curious about what may be happening underneath the more obvious clinical material.
How I work
My supervision is grounded in psychodynamic and group-analytic thinking.
I pay close attention to transference and countertransference, projection and projective identification, enactments, defences and the unconscious communication taking place within the therapeutic relationship. I am also interested in what may be happening around the therapy: within families, groups, organisations, culture and wider society, and how these influences enter the consulting room.
At times, what has not been said can be just as important as what has.
Supervision with me therefore involves thinking not only about the patient, but about what happens between you and the patient, and what the therapeutic relationship may be asking you to feel, hold or understand.
This requires openness, and sometimes vulnerability. I do not expect that kind of trust to exist immediately. Like therapy, a supervisory relationship develops through time, consistency and the experience of being able to think together without judgement.
Who I supervise
I offer supervision to BACP Accredited therapists, as well as UKCP trainee and registered psychotherapeutic counsellors and psychotherapists.
I can supervise clinical work with individuals, couples and groups.
My supervision is likely to be most useful to therapists who are interested in working at depth and who want to think about unconscious and relational processes, rather than supervision being concerned only with case management or clinical technique.
You do not have to be a purely psychodynamic therapist to benefit from supervision with me. What matters more is a willingness to think about your own internal responses and about what may be taking place beneath the surface of the therapeutic encounter.
Personal therapy and psychodynamic supervision
Because my approach to supervision involves thinking closely about countertransference and the therapist's own emotional responses, I ask that therapists working with me have undertaken substantial personal therapy as part of their core psychotherapy or counselling training.
As a minimum, I would expect around 120 hours of personal therapy, and ideally 160 hours or more.
This is important to me because psychodynamic supervision sometimes asks us to distinguish between what belongs to the patient, what belongs to ourselves, and what may have been created between us. Having experienced one's own therapy provides an important foundation for being able to approach this kind of work with curiosity and sufficient emotional depth.
Individual and group supervision
I offer both individual supervision and small online supervision groups.
Individual supervision allows us to follow your clinical work closely and to develop an ongoing understanding of you as a practitioner.
Group supervision brings another dimension. A group can sometimes notice or feel something that neither supervisor nor supervisee has consciously recognised. Different responses within the group can help us think about splitting, projection, parallel process and the wider relational field surrounding a piece of clinical work.
I keep my supervision groups small, i.e. up to four practitioners, so that there is enough time to think properly about each person's work and enough continuity for trust to develop between members.
Whether we work individually or in a group, my aim is to create a supervisory relationship in which difficult clinical material can be brought honestly, including those moments when you feel uncertain, stuck, affected by a patient, or simply do not know.
Not knowing can often be a useful place from which to begin thinking.
Supervision fees
Individual supervision:
£70 for 50 minutes
£126 for 90 minutes
Group supervision is £45 per person, per session.
I currently have spaces available for group supervision. If you are interested in joining a small psychodynamic supervision group, please get in touch with me to enquire about availability and whether the group may be a suitable fit for your practice.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. 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.
