Supervision

Availability

My main availability is on Saturdays and Mondays but I am also available at some hours on all other days. Please feel free to contact me and check my current availability

About me and my supervision practice

I provide both clinical and humanistic supervision. I support both trained and trainee counsellors and psychotherapists. 

I trained in the 7 level-eyed model of supervision, and offer an exploration of client work through 7 key perspectives: focus on your client, exploring the interventions you use, focus on your relationship with your client, focusing on how our relationship may offer insights on your client work, focusing on what emerges in me as the supervisor as we talk about a client, and considering the wider context for you and your client that frames and impacts your work.

My approach is rooted in unconditional positive regard, empathy, compassion, and congruence. I am an integrative practitioner with an interest in person-centered, Gestalt, existential and Solution Focused Brief Therapy modalities. I have an appreciation of CBT and psychodynamic approaches, and I highly regard Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts theory in widening our understanding of what happens for us and the client in the therapy room.

My current experience is as a counsellor and supervisor at the University of Plymouth, where I supervise associate counsellors in individual and group supervision. I supervise both trainee counsellors and fully qualified counsellors.

Practice description

I aim to meet you colleague to colleague. I accept that I am not the expert of you. My aim is to come alongside you, as a fellow therapist. I want to support you in building your confidence and to embrace the doubts and vulnerability that are at the heart of all relational work. 

I am an accredited counsellor and psychotherapist with the BACP and usually suggest using their ethical framework as a reference. Feel free to discuss this with me if you belong to a different governing body.

I can meet both in person or online. My office is on the second floor and is only accessible via the staircase. There is a car park with up to two hours of free parking outside of my office, which is also about an 11 minute walk away from Plymouth train station, near Mutley Plains.

My first session

I normally suggest that we talk for up to 1/2 hour on zoom or on the phone before booking our first session, so you have some sense if I may be the right supervisor for you.

In our first session of supervision, we will also need to discuss our supervisory contract. I suggest that you also share any clinical supervision needs you have (for instance as a trainee), as well as any other preferences in your supervision. For instance, you may wish to develop certain aspects of your practice, or you may wish to focus on certain modalities in your work (i.e. how you integrate CBT).

Fees

I charge £50 per hour of supervision.