Supervision
I have 30 years experience providing supervision for counsellors.
Supervision improves outcomes for clients by providing support, professional development and monitoring safe practice. I enjoy helping supervisees deepen their practice over time.
I’ve supervised counsellors working in the NHS, EAPs, student services, charity settings, medical settings and in private practice. I’ve supervised counsellors at all stages of their career, from training placement to mature practice. I have given group and individual supervision.
My supervision, like my counselling style, is relational. We will give attention to the dynamics within the client’s internal and external world, those between client and counsellor and those between supervisee and supervisor.
Giving therapy is a life-long committment for many. Counsellors can be sustained through the difficulties of this work when their practice is developing in a way which embodies their heart’s vision and motivation. As “shakey human beings” (Gendlin) clients will take us to areas of our own uncertainty yet we need to be comfortable enough in those places to embody calm connection. Distressed clients will need to “borrow our ability to regulate” as a step towards developing their own.
In supervision we work together to name what is going on with kindness and a respect for its part in the overall picture. Supervision sessions are both exploratory and supportive.
As we go forward we can make adjustments to the way we discuss your work. We can also have reviews peridically.
My supervision is given within the BACP ethical framework
Supervision is essential to how practitioners sustain good practice throughout their working life. Supervision provides practitioners with regular and ongoing opportunities to reflect in depth about all aspects of their practice in order to work as effectively, safely and ethically as possible. Supervision also sustains the personal resourcefulness required to undertake the work.
- The Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions (BACP 2018a. Good Practice, point 60)
I charge £60 / hour for supervision (£70 after 6pm).
If you are self-funding AND have less than 5 clients, £50 / hour (£60 after 6pm).
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