Supervision
As someone who loves learning and education, training as a supervisor felt like a natural step once I felt I'd gained enough experience practising as a therapist myself. Supervision is personally one of my favourite contexts to learn and to deepen in my work as a psychotherapist and supervisor, and has been ever since qualifying in 2004.
Since qualifying as a supervisor in 2012 I’ve been blessed to work with a host of fascinating supervisees working in different contexts. For example, I have supervised:
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small ecotherapy groups for peers
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‘nature connection and walk and talk’ ecotherapists running public groups
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ecopsychology post graduate course trainers
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counsellors and psychotherapists in private practice
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counsellors and psychotherapists in health, education, activist, and change-making organisations and networks
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bodywork practitioners in private practice
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non-therapeutic staff working in high pressure therapy organisations
Given my former academic background and prior experience of supervising academic work one to one, from time to time I also supervise students who are researching areas of shared interest e.g. meditation, psychotherapy, ecopsychology and childfreedom/childlessness.
My approach to supervision is collaborative. Working as a relational body psychotherapist and being a long-term meditator, I’m keen to co-create a reflective, creative breathing space with supervisees. A collegial, supportive space where supervisees are free to explore, be usefully and kindly challenged as we reflect together on all aspects of client work and the supervisee’s development as a practitioner.
At times, depending upon the interest of the supervisee, supervision may involve movement work, gesture, breath work, chair work, and sensing in the body and exploring body symptoms, as well as other creative approaches (sand tray, drawing, mapping in the room etc).
I find my own supervision invaluable in informing and supporting my client and supervision work, furthering my theoretical and practical understanding and noticing what I need to attend to personally. In supervising I draw upon the hundreds of hours of group and individual supervision I have been fortunate to receive and continue to receive in my ongoing work as a therapist for the past 21 years.
I've been blessed to have worked with highly experienced supervisors who model working ethically, effectively, and humanly rather than perfectly, and who train and practice across a range of therapy modalities: humanistic/integrative work, body psychotherapy, ProcessWork, ecopsychology and ecotherapy, Internal Family Systems, pre and perinatal work and dramatherapy.
Please feel free to contact me for further information or a first conversation about supervision. You can also find out my current fee and other practicalities in coming for supervision.