Clinical Supervision

I supervise qualified and trainee counsellors and psychotherapists, individually and in groups, based on Hawkins and Shohet’s Seven-Eyed Model.

I am calm, curious, open, knowledgeable about different modalities and ethical codes, and will provide empathetic support and challenge for your work with clients. My approach to supervision is collaborative, integrative and relational, drawing upon both my own clinical work over the past 15 years with diverse clients in a variety of settings, and a previous history of working with mentally disordered clients in the mental health and criminal justice system. I also have up-to-date working knowledge of the secondary mental health system

I encourage supervisees to work relationally with their clients, and to look at unconscious processes, to help identify what may be going on within both the therapeutic and the supervisory relationship. My original training used Clarkson’s five-strand model of the therapeutic relationship, and I have deepened my understanding with further study of humanistic, attachment and contemporary psychotherapy theory, together with Buddhist psychology, mindfulness-based therapy, teaching and practice. All my work is supported and under-pinned by integrative mindfulness-based supervision, my own mindfulness practice and regular silent retreats.

I hold a CPCAB Level 6 Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Supervision. In addition to my private supervision practice, I have provided supervision and training for counsellors at a community bereavement agency. In my former career as a barrister, I had extensive experience of supervising trainee and junior practitioners in their client work.

I charge £75for a 50 minute supervision session. I also keep 2 lower cost (sliding scale) supervision spaces for trainee and recently qualified counsellors who have a low household income. Once we have an ongoing supervisory relationship, I can also offer additional or occasional sessions on Zoom