I provide Supervision of Supervision to individual Supervisors, Clinical Supervision to Individuals and Groups across the modalities I am trained in and the areas that I specialise in. I am certified as a Brainspotting Consultant and Supervisor, Grief and Loss Supervisor and specialise in crisis, trauma, eating disorders, death, dying and all underlying issues.

I am passionate about supervision and see it as a vital part of the work we do – for our own self care, reflection and growth and to ensure that the best interests of the client are always the focus. I love providing supervision and love having supervision …

I have an Advanced Certificate of Supervision from the Centre for Supervision Training (Michael Carroll – UK). This includes two days each on the following areas: Becoming and Effective Supervisor I, Becoming and Effective Supervisor II, Ethical Maturity in the Helping Profession, and Group Supervision. I have also completed a two day group facilitator training thought the ACGB have supplemented my Supervision training with online courses on Ethics within Counselling and also attended one day workshops on Supervision to meet the AAOS, PACFA, ACA, and AHA standards for supervisors to maintain my current clinical supervisor status.

I provide individual and group supervision by Zoom. I am available to provide group supervision for organisations for their staff either in person or by zoom.

My approach to supervision is to work in cooperation with the individuals where I take the role of a consultant/mentor. The supervisee in my opinion is the expert in their field of work and chosen modality. For clinical case presentations I use a group supervision model called “The bells that Ring” by Kerry Proctor which facilitates a safe and supportive environment for supervisees and allows team cooperation within the consultant/mentoring framework.

I also use the Seven Eyed Model of Supervision by Peter Hawkins and Robin Shohet as the major framework for individual supervision and also for groups as it can facilitate a role play within the group, where each takes on a separate eye, or the group or individual can be given a specific eye to focus on during a case presentation. This provides greater focus and when there is focus on one eye specifically, we see a different perspective and view. I also use a Family Constellation approach to supervision and integrate creative and expressive therapies into supervision to externalize right brain and creative approaches.

Supervision regardless of whether it is individual or group needs to offer flexibility to meet the needs of the individual, the group and the goals of both and all. This ensures that there is the opportunity to work on the most important topics – be that theme based, case presentation, getting unstuck, critical reflection or best practices.

I consider the key elements in effective supervision are to create and maintain a safe, open and honest environment that supports transformational learning and facilitated critical reflection – this underpins how I approach supervision.

I recognise the value and importance of jointly establishing an agreed definition of supervision, roles and responsibilities, and rules and boundaries by having a simple agreement that puts words to the unspoken rules and clarifies agreed expectations – this allows the supervisee to be able to focus on a creative approach so new knowledge and learning can take place within the clinical supervision framework. This is something that I consider is the supervisees or group’s first task – to develop and agree on the individual and group rules and boundaries in the early sessions.

Supervision Philosophy & Framework

What is supervision?

Supervision is a safe forum used by supervisees to reflect on all aspects of their clinical (or otherwise) work, where they receive formal and informal feedback on that work and where the welfare of clients and the quality of the service they receive is central.

The following guidelines/ground rules will guide our time together:

Confidentiality (what we mean by confidentiality is) … Client information shared during supervision will be kept confidential and all references will be stored in a locked filing cabinet. No information will be disclosed unless there is a reason to believe that the supervisee or their client/s is/are in immediate, severe danger to the health or life of themselves or others.

If there is reason to believe there is a case of risk, the supervisor will initially discuss this with the individual supervisee and jointly agree on the best action for client safety.

The supervisor and supervisees will maintain a respectful and professional approach to the experience and diversity of the modalities used. Each of us recognises that we have our own individual skills and knowledge and life experience and we bring this openly to share but not preach or mandate.

Evaluation and Review:

Feedback will be provided every session. We have agreed that informal evaluation of: Supervisee, Supervisors, and Supervision will take place on an agreed frequency. The option to review or evaluate more frequently is available as required or requested.

My approach to supervision is to work in cooperation with the individuals where I take the role of a consultant/mentor. The supervisee in my opinion is the expert in their field of work and chosen modality. For clinical case presentations I use a group supervision model called “The bells that Ring” by Kerry Proctor which facilitates a safe and supportive environment for supervisees and allows team cooperation within the consultant/mentoring framework. Additionally I use case vignette models and the seven eyed model for case presentation.

I consider the key elements in effective supervision are to create and maintain a safe, open and honest environment that supports transformational learning and facilitates critical reflection – this underpins how I approach supervision.

I recognise the value and importance of jointly establishing an agreed definition of supervision, roles and responsibilities, and rules and boundaries by having a simple agreement that puts words to the unspoken rules and clarifies agreed expectations – this allows the supervisee to be able to focus on a creative approach so new knowledge and learning can take place within the clinical supervision framework.

Expressions of interest for group supervision close on the last Friday of every month.

Group Supervision can commence any month based on sufficient numbers. Groups are designed to run every second month for 2 hours to supplement individual one on one supervision sessions.

Group supervision consists of 4 group meetings.