Supervision
I have worked as a clinical supervisor for almost 10 years.
My approach to supervision is what I would call ‘supervisee-centred’ rather than ‘client-centred’. Although we may well spend a lot of time talking about clients, our primary focus is on helping support the therapist/counsellor in their further development as a practitioner. Therefore, the supervision needs to always be focussed on what it is that the supervisee needs in the session to help them with this development.
In this sense, my approach is different to more traditional approaches to supervision in which the supervisor is in some way ‘overseeing’ the work that the supervisee is engaged in with the client. Rather than ‘overseeing’ their work, I hope that supervisees experience me as working alongside them – working jointly with them to look at how they can improve and develop their work with clients.
At the moment, I rarely have availability to take on long-term supervisees. But I am able to offer shorter-term, ad hoc supervision/consulting with therapists who want to focus on a particular element of their practice or a particular piece of client work.
I have a longstanding research interest in and have written about psychotherapists’ struggles with being congruent and truthful in their work with clients, and how these struggles can lead to therapeutic impasses and to ruptures.
I have a Diploma in Clinical Supervision from the Metanoia Institute.
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