Supervision details
I offer online clinical supervision to trainee and qualified counsellors as a Supervisor in Training.
My approach is relational, integrative and pluralistic with a strong emphasis on reflection, curiosity and collaborative thinking. My original therapeutic training is in Humanistic and Gestalt counselling, which continues to inform the way I attend to relationship, process, embodiment, use of self and creativity in the therapy room.
Over time and experience my practice has developed into a more integrative and pluralistic way of working, heavily influenced by systemic and anti-oppressive practice. I do not expect supervisees to work in the same therapeutic model as I do. Instead I aim to help you think more deeply within your own approach while also considering different perspectives where these may be helpful.
My supervision training is informed by the Seven-Eyed Model of Supervision, allowing us to explore not only the client and your interventions, but also the therapeutic relationship, your own emotional and embodied responses, the supervisory relationship, parallel processes and the wider systems surrounding the work.
I aim to offer supervision that is supportive without avoiding challenge. There is space for uncertainty and the parts of clinical work that can feel difficult to say out loud. I am interested in supervision as more than case management, as a place to think about the client, the relationship, ourselves as practitioners and the contexts in which therapy takes place.
Trauma, abuse and complex work
Alongside private practice I have worked within specialist services including Solace Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis, supporting adult survivors of domestic abuse, sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse.
Through this work I have developed substantial experience of trauma, dissociation, coercive control, safeguarding, risk, relational trauma and the longer-term impact of abuse on identity, attachment and relationships.
I also gained a DAPA qualification through my domestic abuse work, which informs my understanding of domestic abuse, power and control, risk and survivor-centred practice.
Neurodivergence, identity and diversity
A significant part of my clinical practice involves working with autistic and ADHD adults, including people identified later in life and those who have spent many years masking.
I also bring lived experience as a neurodivergent practitioner, which informs my commitment to neuro-affirming practice and my understanding of the different ways therapists may process, communicate and make sense of clinical work.
I welcome both neurodivergent therapists and therapists working with neurodivergent clients. My approach is neuro-affirming rather than deficit-focused and I aim to create a supervisory relationship in which different ways of thinking, communicating, processing and working can be explored openly and without pathologising.
Anti-Oppressive Practice
The foundation of my work is anti-oppressive practice and LGBTQ+/GSRD affirming, and I welcome exploration of gender, sexuality, culture, disability, identity, relationship diversity, power and difference within supervision.
I am also currently undertaking a Level 7 Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy with CICS, on a COSRT-accredited professional training pathway. This developing specialist training informs the way I think about sexuality, intimacy, gender, bodies, relationships and diversity, which also uses the bio/psycho/social model of formulation when thinking of clients. Although I do not currently offer specialist psychosexual supervision.
Areas of experience
My clinical experience includes (in no particular order):
- Autism, ADHD and late-identified neurodivergence
- Trauma and relational trauma
- Domestic abuse and coercive control
- Sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse
- Dissociation and shutdown
- Attachment and relationship difficulties
- LGBTQ+ and GSRD-affirming work
- Identity and sexuality
- Burnout, masking and chronic overwhelm
- Complex and longer-term therapeutic work
- Private practice and the realities of working independently
Who I supervise
I welcome:
- Trainee counsellors, where their training provider permits supervision with a Supervisor in Training
- Newly qualified counsellors
- Qualified and experienced practitioners
- Neurodivergent therapists
- Therapists working with neurodivergent clients
- Practitioners working with trauma, abuse or relational complexity
- Counsellors developing or establishing private practice
Please note if you are currently in training, you will need to check that your course accepts supervision from a Supervisor in Training and that I meet any specific requirements set by your training provider.
Professional status
I am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) and a student member of COSRT.
I practise explicitly as a Supervisor in Training, with my supervisory work undertaken within the requirements of my training and my own supervision.
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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