Supervision
I'm an experienced individual and group supervisor, holding UKCP-accredited Diploma in Supervision. I provide supervision to trainee and qualified counsellors.
My Diploma was awarded by Re-Vision, which is accredited by both the BACP and the UKCP. Re-Vision is a psychotherapy training centre with an integrative transpersonal perspective. Its core values are care, integrity and meaning. To bring these values into the relationship between myself and my supervisees is at the heart of my supervision practice, as it is in my work as a therapist.
The Diploma covered areas such as how to build a transparent and respectful basis for the supervisory relationship; parallel process; field dynamics; cross-cultural issues and working with difference and diversity; how to to use authority wisely in supervision; bringing an understanding of ethical principles to the work; and how to find the creative edge in practice.
I see supervision as a reflective arena in which to explore the meta-level of client work as well as its minutia, and the interaction between these two. It’s an arena where powerful feelings or events that may belong with the therapist, with the client, or in their co-created space, can be expressed and debriefed.
In supervision, a unique and mutual learning relationship can develop, providing an opportunity for professional and personal growth. It safeguards client and therapist wellbeing and enhances the effectiveness of therapeutic practice.
As an Integrative psychotherapist and supervisor, I'm trained in a range of modalities, and so I'm able to work with supervisees from a range of orientations. I'm informed by humanistic, psychodynamic, existential, systemic, developmental, attachment-based, neurobiological/body-oriented and transpersonal theories. These different models offer different lenses to view the core therapeutic encounter through.