Supervision
​Good quality supervision is essential both to the wellbeing and professional development of counsellors and therapists. In supervision with me, I aim to support and facilitate your professional growth enabling you to both strengthen your identity as a counsellor and to reach you potential. Supervision is a space to have you and your client relationships held, so that you may be restored and your client work developed and enlivened.
As a supervisor, my sessions are characterised by:
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- A deep respect for you as a practitioner
- A focus on reflective practice
- An attention to what is happening relationally between you and your clients.
- A balance between nurture and challenge
- A safety and acceptance that invites you to bring the difficult and messy aspects of the work as
well as the ‘wins’
- A desire to empower you as a professional
- A recognition of the emotional demands of therapeutic work
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During the course of our supervision work, though not at every session, we will look at:
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- What the client brings and doesn’t bring
- Possible interventions and their impacts
- The feelings in you that are evoked by different clients
- What might be happening in your life that impacts you and your client work
- What is happening in our supervisory relationship
- How the context of your work impacts you and your client work
- How the political, cultural, social and economic climate impacts your clients, you and your
client relationships
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Whatever stage of your counselling development you are at, I aim to meet your needs. From
trainee to seasoned therapist, I endeavour to both nurture and stretch you in order that you can
offer your clients your best.
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Trainee Counsellor
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Counselling training is a unique time in your life when there are often many pressures and demands on you, emotionally, intellectually, financially and time wise. My intention for trainee counsellors is to offer safety as you enter the often anxiety provoking realm of bringing your learning into the ‘real world’. We will link your client work to theory, in order to bring alive your theoretical knowledge.
We will explore possible interventions for your clients and how you feel about implementing them.
We will give space to any issues arising in your placement or college.
This will happen in the context of a relationship which aims to be safe enough for you to bring the vulnerable aspects of the work. My intention is to model the conditions of an authentic relationship, and to minimise the inherent power imbalance between supervisor and trainee counsellor.