Supervision

What to Expect

Supervision with me is collaborative, exploratory, and shaped around your needs.

• Compassionate space to explore how you experience your work and how you might develop your practice.

• Facilitate reflection to assist embodied processes and transformational learning.

• Regular check-ins to ensure you feel deeply accompanied and supported in your work.

• Sessions available online or in person in Brighton.

• A supervisor whose role encompasses being a cheerleader, a mentor and an accountability partner. 

Supervision provides a space for you to connect with your own experience as a practitioner, noticing what matters to you and what supports your growth. Exploratory approaches, such as metaphor, sand tray or creative arts can open new perspectives. Playfulness may spark insights, and restore lightness or humour when needed. Supervision supports your well-being by helping you discern your growing edges. Notice pressures or self-doubt, and make choices aligned with your ethics and values.

As a counsellor, I was originally trained in multiple humanistic and psychodynamic modalities, however today my philosophy and passion is a person-centred and neuroaffirming approach. My supervision practice is aligned with the same therapeutic, and genuine way of being, whilst being informed by useful reflective and supervisory models (Hawkins’ 7‑Eyed Model, Proctor’s Three‑Function Model, Gibb's Reflective Cycle and others). From time to time we may tap into and experiment with a wide range of creative processes. Images and symbols, writing and storytelling, or movement and expressive arts create opportunities to express and embody your research and practice.

Qualification

While qualified counsellors can provide peer supervision, accredited the bodies like the BACP prefer that practitioners providing clinical supervision have attended suitable training. My practice is informed by the Certificate in Creative Supervision from Hope Play Therapy Ltd, which I received in 2025. This training focused on the Three-Function Model of clinical supervision integrated with theories of reflective supervision and applications of creative approaches. This Level 6 standard course mapped to the BACP supervision competence framework and included a minimum of 20 hours of supervised practice, a theoretical presentation, a case study, a transcript, and a signed report from my 'meta' supervisor. The training was led by Emma Steadman and based on her PhD research on supervision. Emma Steadman's research was also supervised by a prominent ethics consultant who helped develop the BACP ethical framework. The training took a year to complete, and it has been very useful so far.

I continue to attend specialist supervision of supervision with an experienced clinical psychologist and neurodevelopmental specialist who supports compassion-based approaches to therapy. I also pursue ongoing professional development through practice-based research and seminars to keep honing and expanding my way of working. My supervision practice supports therapists working with common life and mental health issues, as well as more specialist work with LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent individuals. Recognising my limits and developing capacity as a supervisor I only work with qualified and trainee therapists on a case-by-case basis.

Let’s Talk

If you would like to see if working together is a good fit for you, feel free to get in touch or arrange a call for an introductory conversation.