Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul"
- Carl Jung
Much is said about the benefits of supervision, less is said about what a vulnerable experience it can be. As a supervisor I endeavour to bring all my professional experience as a therapist and a supervisor into the room in service of you, your work, and your clients, but as we sit together I endeavour to meet you as a colleague and a person.
What is Supervision?
From my perspective, and what I focus on offering, supervision provides:
Self-care and development, through attending to those parts of self which are touched and activated by our work with our clients. We are a whole self, and our whole self comes into the work with us, and our work is contained in our whole self. Attending to all parts of self which have contact with the work and are affected by it is an essential task of supervision, to ensure we can return to the work with integrity, and can return to ourselves with clarity. Self care and development are often hard work and I welcome your needs into the supervision space.
Professional development through developing our reflexive practice, allowing you to be curious, compassionately critical, and celebratory in reflecting on your practice as a means to continue to grow and develop as the practitioner you are.
Professional support - we know that one of the common denominators in burnout is a lack of regular, supportive, trustworthy supervision. Supervision is a resource for you to gain support and receive holding, alongside collaborative professional guidance.
Who do I work with?
I have been supporting other therapists since 2021. I work with therapists in private practice and within organisations.
My training background is humanistic, although I have supported therapists from diverse modalities. Given my background and experience I am most suited to supervising therapists from a humanistic or integrative modality.
I have particular experience in supporting trainee therapists, having taught on training programmes, supervised trainees, and run a training placement.
My professional experience with clients focuses on 2 main client groups; adolescents and young adults in statutory and voluntary sector services, and individual adults in private practice focusing on their experience of relationships.
I also offer professional supervision to other helping professionals, such a education, health, and social care staff. Working in these professions requires you to be in relationship with others in a supportive, and often in a challenging, role. You are required to contain others who are feeling uncontained and hear and witness the difficulties and traumas of others. This all has an impact on your self, and on how you might be able to show up in work. Many of the people from these professions who I supervise may be experiencing burnout, overwhelm, a sense of shut down in their personal life or relationships. Supervision can support you with these experiences and can help you to find a more personal sustainability in work.
“She makes people feel valued and important by her acceptance and attention to the small details. There is a rare quality to her listening skills. She has a way of listening with the purpose of sifting through the words to the underlying meaning and feeling, accurately getting to the heart of what the client is saying and even what they are communicating without words.”
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