Availability
Counselling/Psychotherapy/
Supervision: I currently have some availability for new supervisees
Availability
Counselling/Psychotherapy/
Supervision: I currently have some availability for new supervisees
As a counsellor/psychotherapist, my way of working is a trauma-informed person-centred approach integrated with pluralistic principles, psychodynamic concepts and psychoeducation.
I work holistically and relationally with the whole person – a humanistic model that facilitates growth.
I believe each person has the resources within themselves to grow and resolve their difficulties, given the right environment so I work collaboratively with clients to work through their difficult issues by providing the appropriate environment.
I have experience in working with individual adult clients, couples/relationships/families as well as group therapy.
As a supervisor, my aim is to facilitate your reflection on your practice, supporting you in your work with your clients as well as your own wellbeing and professional and personal growth and development.
I see my role as a supervisor as one of working collaboratively with you to facilitate your reflection on your work and your congruence in it, underpinned by my person-centred and pluralistic philosophy to life and practice.
Through the supervision process and the activities within it, I expect that my supervisees will increasingly bridge gaps (where relevant) in their understanding between theory and practice, reflect on their work and review alternative perspectives, take fresh ideas back into their client work, wrestle with and probably untangle some ethical dilemmas, feel refreshed and reinvigorated in themselves, and grow both professionally and personally.
In my experience as a supervisee, when the balance between my client’s welfare and my own wellbeing/personal and professional development have been in harmony, I have experienced supervision as being positive: this is what I hope to offer to my supervisees.
If, following our email correspondence, we agree to work together, I will then send you some onboarding emails which will include practical information you might need as well as a working agreement and consent request for you to review.
We could also use the first session as an opportunity to explore what it is you’d like out of supervision and to get a sense as to whether we feel we are a good fit to work together.
In the session, we will be working with whatever it is you want to focus on after clarifying/renegotiating aspects of the working agreement to suit us both (where relevant).
At the end of that first session, we can decide whether or not we wish to continue to work together. Or you could take some time to think about it and come back to me.
Just like counselling/psychotherapy, the supervisory relationship is vital. Therefore, I like us to factor in a review after our first 3 sessions together to determine how comfortable both parties feel regarding continuing working together, with no expectations on either party of going further.
The next step is for you to send me a message to arrange that initial session. Let’s get the ball rolling and see how it goes…
Group supervision can be particularly enrichening in ways that are different from 1 to 1 interactions.
In group supervision, practitioners can for example, reflect on and get support with challenges and celebrations in regards to client work, growing and/or managing their private practice, links between theory and practice, ethical dilemmas, self-care and more!
When issues are shared and explored in a group, there is the potential for more opportunities to access a more diverse range of perspectives, learning, creativity, and growth, both professionally and personally; and all in community, which has the added bonus of reducing the loneliness and isolation that practitioners can experience.
Group supervision can also serve as a ‘business networking’ opportunity – for instance, it’s easier to refer clients to colleagues with whom we are familiar, and especially whom we have come to trust through the process of experiencing group supervision together.
What next?
If your peer supervision group wants a trained supervisor to facilitate, or your agency/training provider needs a group supervisor, then please contact me to explore your requirements.
