Supervision details
Clinical Supervision for Counsellors
Reflective, trauma-informed supervision for counsellors working with children, young people and adults.
As a counsellor, I know how much we can hold for the people we work with. Supervision is a space to put some of that down, pause and think.
I offer warm, supportive and reflective clinical supervision for trainee and qualified counsellors, with a particular interest in practitioners working with children and young people.
My approach is person-centred, collaborative and trauma-informed. I believe good supervision should provide both support and gentle challenge, helping you to explore your client work, develop your clinical thinking and grow in confidence while staying connected to yourself as a practitioner.
Supporting counsellors working with children and young people
I have extensive experience working with children, young people and families, including within specialist sexual abuse and trauma services and educational settings.
I understand that working with CYP can bring additional layers to the therapeutic work, including relationships with parents and carers, safeguarding, school involvement, professional networks and the unique ways children and young people communicate their experiences.
I particularly welcome counsellors who are developing their practice with CYP and would value a supervisor who understands the complexities of this work.
Trauma, sexual abuse and emotionally demanding work
I also have significant experience supporting people affected by sexual abuse, trauma and difficult life experiences, including children, young people and adults.
My additional training includes Blue Star pre-trial training, and I have experience of working within specialist sexual abuse support services.
I understand that this work can have an impact on us as practitioners too. Supervision can provide a safe place to explore the emotional impact of our work, boundaries, professional dilemmas, uncertainty and the things we sometimes carry home with us.
A space where you don't have to wear the professional mask
As counsellors, we can sometimes feel that we need to have the answers, appear confident and know exactly what we're doing.
But we are human too.
I believe supervision should be somewhere you can bring the difficult session, the client you're unsure about, something that doesn't quite sit right, or simply a feeling you can't put into words yet.
You don't need to have everything figured out before you come to supervision.
We can slow things down, become curious together and explore what is happening for you, your client and within the therapeutic relationship.
What we can explore together
Supervision may include:
Client work and therapeutic relationships
Working therapeutically with children and young people
Trauma and sexual abuse
Safeguarding and ethical considerations
Boundaries and professional dilemmas
Your emotional responses to client work
Developing clinical confidence and self-awareness
Working with parents, carers, schools and other professionals
The impact of emotionally demanding work
Your ongoing professional and personal development
I welcome counsellors who want supervision to be a place of reflection, honesty, curiosity and growth — not simply somewhere to complete a professional requirement.
If you're looking for a supervisor and would like to explore whether we might be a good fit, please get in touch. The supervisory relationship matters, and I’m happy to have an initial conversation before you make a decision.
Supervision is available face-to-face in Leamington Spa and online across the UK.
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.
