I offer supervision to counsellors and psychotherapists looking for a supportive, reflective and appropriately challenging space to think about their therapeutic work and develop as practitioners. I am a BACP-registered integrative psychotherapist, with a particular interest in Gestalt and the Seven-Eyed Model of supervision.
Alongside my psychotherapy work, I am also a Chartered Accountant, with a background in professional services. This gives me an additional perspective on the practical realities of building and running a private practice. My aim is to help therapists develop practices that are:
Clinically sound.
Ethically grounded.
Professionally sustainable.
Supervision for the therapist and the work
Good supervision is about more than discussing what happened in a session. We can explore the therapeutic relationship, your responses to clients, moments of difficulty or stuckness, ethical questions, boundaries, risk and safeguarding, as well as culture, identity and the wider context of the work. I am particularly interested in what happens between therapist and client, as well as what happens within each of them.
Drawing on Gestalt and relational thinking, I may invite you to pay attention to what you notice in yourself; your thoughts, feelings, bodily responses and assumptions. This is with a view to consider what these might tell us about the therapeutic relationship. The Seven-Eyed Model can also provide different perspectives from which to explore the work.
The therapist as a person
Therapeutic work can affect us. Clients can evoke strong feelings, challenge our assumptions or leave us feeling uncertain, frustrated or unusually invested. Supervision provides a space to become curious about these responses and consider how they may be influencing your work.
Supervision isn't personal therapy, but personal material can be explored where it is relevant to your professional practice.
Supporting your private practice
For therapists in private practice, there is another dimension: you are also running a business.
My Chartered Accountant background means I can bring practical experience to questions around:
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setting and reviewing fees;
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boundaries and cancellations;
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workload and capacity;
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developing a niche or specialism;
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marketing and referrals;
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balancing clinical and administrative time;
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financial sustainability;
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moving into private practice; and
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developing a practice that reflects the professional life you want.
Sometimes a business issue is also a professional or relational issue.
For example, difficulty increasing your fees, saying no to clients or managing your workload can be explored both practically and reflectively.
This doesn't turn supervision into accountancy or business consultancy. Rather, it recognises that the way you run your practice can affect the way you experience your work.
Why work with me?
I bring together three complementary perspectives:
Psychotherapist
A BACP-registered integrative psychotherapist with a Gestalt orientation.
Chartered Accountant
A professional background that gives me an understanding of business, finance and the pressures of professional environments
Experience teaching counselling students and supporting developing therapists
Together, these inform a supervision approach that considers the client, the therapist and the professional practice around them.
What you can expect
I aim to provide supervision that is:
Reflective – creating space to slow down and think.
Relational – paying attention to what happens between people.
Supportive – providing a safe space to bring uncertainty and difficult material.
Challenging – questioning assumptions and offering different perspectives where appropriate.
Practical – recognising the realities of professional life and private practice.
I don't believe the supervisor needs to have all the answers. My role is to help you develop your own capacity to think, reflect and make confident professional judgements.
Who I work with
I particularly enjoy working with:
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newly qualified therapists establishing their practice;
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therapists moving into private practice;
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established practitioners wanting to develop their work and practice;
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therapists working with difference and diversity
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therapists working with professionals and high-achieving clients; and
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therapists engaging creativity into their work
I am also happy to work with therapists from different theoretical orientations.
I offer an initial conversation so we can discuss your practice, what you are looking for from supervision and whether my approach feels like a good fit.