A relational supervision experience offering a place to feel you and your work are safely contained and held, in context of the work you do and aspects of self you bring, with the opportunity to develop and grow in a shame free learning environment.
A unique relationship
The relationship between myself as a supervisor and you as a supervisee will always be unique. You’ll bring your own learning style, experience, your fears as well as confidences – I’ll offer you my experience, training, networking, resources and knowledge to support and encourage you in your supervision. I’ll respond to your needs as I’m able within professional boundaries which we will contract for and both be responsible for respecting.
Shame free and human first
I endeavour to facilitate a mutually shame free reflective learning environment where there is nothing we can’t sit down with together.
I’m a real person, and I have a sense of humour and every other emotion we all may feel. You may often hear me say we are all “human first”, this is an important thing to remember and, in my experience, allows us to be all of who we are in supervision and beyond.
What do you need in a supervisor?
My experience tells me that the most important factors in our development as practitioners are the quality of our training and placements, our choices of supervisor and personal therapists and our willingness to commit to ongoing learning.
Perhaps you’re not sure yourself yet, so a place to begin might be to look at your current needs, aspirations for the future, your life and working experience, your ways of working in terms of approach and modality, and requirements of work or any study you may be undertaking.
You may be looking for a supervisor who has significant experience and / or qualifications in an area you have limited training or experience working in yourself. The areas I have developed specialisms since 2007 are emotional regulation, trauma, brain injury and neurodivergence.
I’ll be interested in hearing what it is you would like or need from me as your supervisor, and we will regularly review this together.
What might you bring to supervision?
You will be looking for support, reassurance, challenge and guidance with your work primarily. It may be helpful to look at a particular skill you may wish to develop – perhaps assessment, reporting, contracting, evaluating, process and immediacy, how to present your client work, or maybe you’d like to focus on strengthening a particular way of working or skill you have less experience or less confidence with. Perhaps you are looking to develop a private practice or a service you are leading.
You will be looking for a safe and supportive place to learn and grow through your client work, where we can both offer and receive challenge.
I’d be happy to work with you to achieve this, whatever your level of experience.
Supervision can change in focus over time or during sessions. It may involve support, ethics, development, case management, containment, modelling, transference, power dynamics, shame, safeguarding, blind spots, specific knowledge, monitoring or evaluation, fitness to practice, service building and development, professional development – the list is endless.
Some people suggest supervision is most helpful when it includes elements of normative, formative and restorative work and support, which adapts as our needs change and as we grow.
My view is supervision is a journey of learning and support to ensure good practice, that we will work to experience together. My focus is to provide an honest, shame free learning and reflective environment within a relationship of equality.
A place to explore
Supervision is a safe place to explore our worries or concerns about a piece of work, a theme or an issue, to access help if you feel stuck or overwhelmed or tap into the extensive knowledge or experience of our supervisor. Importantly it is also a place to celebrate the important work you are doing and cherish the progress both you and your clients make.
If we work together, you will have my commitment to your development and well-being which I would hope would enable you to express and explore your doubts or fears. This is a very valuable part of supervision at times. Often it is when we are at our most fragile, we can be at our best as a practitioner and I’d love to be alongside you and support you as you experience this development and growth – something we must always be open to whatever our experience or training.
Telephone and email support is always free and available to my one-to-one supervisees and is agreed in contracting.
Group supervisees or consultancy supervisees will contact their primary supervisor with overall clinical responsibility in emergencies.
My training, qualifications and experience
Working as a therapist full time continually since 2007 I have extensive clinical experience in private practice and in agency settings, with over 10,000 clinical hours of experience.
I’ve worked as a consultant and clinical supervisor for therapists both qualified and in training, as other professionals, since 2015.
Read more about me professionally HERE my qualifications HERE and my work history HERE
I work exclusively in established private practice online from Hull, Yorkshire in the UK.
I actively work with CICs, Charities and organisations providing contractual supervision, consultancy supervision as well as individual supervision with qualified and trainee therapists, supervisors and service leaders in the UK and around the world.
Appointments
Unless you choose consultancy sessions, we contract for regular appointment days and times on a weekly, fortnightly or 4 weekly on rolling agreement. We can have clear expectations of each other and boundary that time together if we understand and contract for this from the outset.
Regular supervision time is dependent on your case load needs, management needs, personal choice or training requirements. Your unique circumstances, experience and needs will be explored fully before we contract if we agree to work together. A minimum requirement may not be the same as your clinical or personal requirement.
Some choose to arrange regular supervision, and request extra sessions as their needs, case work or studies change. Extra sessions are subject to availability.
Organisations, consultancy and supervision
Organisations may choose to provide supervision for their service leaders and those working within the organisation, or request consultancy to develop their service and inform the procedures and practice they offer. I have enjoyed working with many specialist and general third sector organisations, and supported the individuals in them to flourish over the years.
Consultancy supervision may be booked when a primary supervisor is unavailable or unable to supervise a particular piece of work.
There may be a conflict of interest, lack of specialism the client and supervisee needs to work ethically, or perhaps a supervisee wishes to add a different kind of experience to their understanding. Occasionally, consultancy is used to support a particular area of study that a current supervisor may not be experienced in.
Some choose to access consultancy when exploring options for additional or new supervision, without the commitment of a regular arrangement which is usually where clinical responsibility is held.
Organisations may use consultancy supervision when developing a service, reviewing their service needs, or reflecting on their current practice.
Introductory appointments and initial consultations
This is a time to meet as equals with open minds, not clinical supervision of your work. We fully and comprehensively explore your experience, needs, worries, confidences, questions as well as your course requirements if you are studying. We will also fully discuss a supervision agreement and both ask and endeavour to answer questions.
At the end of our time together we will both know each other better and be able to make a fully informed decision if we might wish to continue to work together, or if indeed I can provide the specialist service you may be looking for.
A discounted fee is offered for this valuable time together and is payable at the time of booking.
These sessions are often booked well in advance and non-refundable.
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Click HERE if you would like to read more about my own journey to becoming a specialist therapist and supervisor
Click HERE if you are a student therapist