Joanna Yeaxlee Batch

Supervision is nourishment. A place to celebrate, contemplate and get mutuality and validation in an often lonely profession.

I offer supervision both face to face and online. This includes students who are taking their first steps into counselling practice and experienced professionals. I work relationally as a supervisor where I put supervisee needs and therefore client needs at the forefront of the work. I am trained in several models of supervision and pay particular attention to the therapist’s use of self and unconscious processes. I really enjoy the mentoring aspect of supervision and aim to create collaborative relationships where the therapist feels supported and able to explore all aspects of their client work.

I am an integrative counsellor and use a relational, developmental model of integration which means I look at a Clients development in the past as much as I look at a Clients here and now and I use the therapeutic relationship on many levels to do ‘the work’ with clients. I bring this kind of integration in my supervision work so with supervisees I deal with clinical case presentation of clients and offer ideas on the direction of work but I’m also really interested in a supervisee’s process ie what goes on for them in the work, what internal things does the client touch on in the therapist and what is the client therapist relationship like. Sometimes my style can feel slightly like therapy as I’m simultaneously curious about the client’s ‘stuff’ AND the therapist’s ‘stuff’ (history, feelings, imaginings, personal experiences and relationships)