Samantha Barlow

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Supervisor • her/she
Adv Dip, MBACP (Accred)
Exeter EX1 & Axminster EX13

Supervision details

BACP Accredited Counsellor & Clinical Supervisor

Warm, collaborative and down-to-earth supervision for therapists working with individuals, couples and teenagers. I offer a supportive space where you can bring challenging work, explore your practice honestly, develop your clinical thinking and build confidence — with both compassion and constructive challenge.

I believe good supervision should give you space to think freely, reflect on your practice, develop your clinical thinking and build confidence in your work. I aim to create a relationship that feels safe enough for honesty, while also being professionally stretching and clinically useful.

My approach is strongly relational and integrative, drawing on person-centred, psychodynamic and systemic thinking. I have a particular interest in sub-personality and parts work, and enjoy exploring therapy in intuitive, creative and embodied ways. I’m interested not only in what is happening for your client, but also in what is happening for you as the therapist, and within the therapeutic relationship.

My supervision is underpinned by the seven-eyed model, offering a flexible and holistic way of exploring the client, therapist, therapeutic relationship, supervisory relationship, and wider systems surrounding the work.

Whether you’re bringing a complex piece of clinical work, feeling stuck with a client, questioning your therapeutic approach or simply wanting space to reflect and develop, I offer supervision that is thoughtful, curious, grounded and genuinely collaborative.

I offer a free initial conversation so we can get a sense of each other and decide whether we feel like a good fit.

Clinical supervision: £60 per hour | £80 for 1.5 hours
Discounted rate available for trainee counsellors.

If you’re looking for supervision that combines warmth and humour with honest reflection, clinical thinking and a willingness to explore beneath the surface, I’d be very happy to hear from you.

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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Online platforms

Zoom

Type of session

In person
Online

BACP Accredited Counsellor & Clinical Supervisor Warm, relational supervision for therapists working with individuals, couples & teenagers.

Samantha Barlow
Samantha Barlow