Sue Hanson

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location_on Carlisle, Cumbria, CA2 5XF
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Supervision details

I am a qualified and experienced Clinical Supervisor providing a calm and supportive environment in which to consider all aspects of your counselling/psychotherapy practice including thinking in a reflective way about your client work and your own needs as a practitioner. I have over twenty years of clinical practice experience as a therapist and supervisor in the NHS, private practice, and charities. 
 
I am a Humanistic/Integrative therapist, so I think about client work from a range of theoretical and therapeutic perspectives. These include Person Centred Experiential Therapy (for its emphasis on relational warmth and acceptance), Transactional Analysis (Life Script) and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (for its emphasis on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by what is held in our unconscious awareness).
 
My approach is grounded in psychodynamic thinking about how a person’s mind and sense of self are developed in the context of their early relationships and experiences and considers the relationship with the therapist to be one of the key therapeutic agents of change. 
 
I understand the challenges of therapeutic work including working with unconscious processes and the necessity of being able to unpack these in a trusting and respectful supervisory relationship.
 
I have undertaken additional CPD in ACT, Compassion Focused Therapy and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
 
I have a clinical background in healthcare and considerable experience supporting people affected by cancer and other serious illnesses. I offer consultation to nurses and other health professionals. These sessions may be taken individually or in a collegial group

Supervision: £70 per hour session.
Please contact me for organisational fees/information.

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Bourne Business Centre, Milbourne Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA2 5XF

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I am a qualified and experienced Clinical Supervisor providing a calm and supportive environment in which to consider all aspects of your practice.

Sue Hanson
Sue Hanson