Supervision

Seeing deeper, understanding more, feeling held….

Experience:

I have extensive experience of supervising a range of therapists working in the NHS. I have supervised ACP registered Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (at bands 8b, 8a and 7) and also offered Service Supervision to CAP trainees; as well as one training-Psychiatrist for a year, several clinical psychologists; integrative psychotherapists and Primary Mental Health Workers; and two Senior Social workers and therapists in both Local Authorities and Private Fostering Agencies. I have also offered therapeutic supervisions to Social Workers where aspects of a case are unhelpfully mixing with their personal, past experiences. I have offered group supervisions to teams of Social Workers as well as reflective spaces for social work teams and manager's reflective spaces.

My NHS supervisees have had roles based in schools, Pupil Referral Units, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services at tiers 3# and 2#. The C&A Psychotherapists I have supervised have trained at the Tavistock and also at the Independent school - IPCAPA (BPF).

Additional Training:

My supervisory practice was bolstered in 2014 by completing the nine month Tavistock training ‘CPD 49 The task of supervision for Child Psychotherapists’.

I have also undertaken Safeguarding Children supervision training at an NHS Trust.

How I work:

I encourage my supervisees to feel safe and respected, able to bring their experiences, questions, successes and challenges/ disappointments for us to consider in a relaxed way. Together we create a space where it is possible to reflect on the complex processes involved in therapy in an open, curious way. I encourage free association, a focus on the counter-transference that supervisee's experience in their patient work and also focuses on the task they face and the wider organizational context, as well as on our learning.

Good supervision, in my experience, has at its heart a deep respect and curiosity about human processes, especially the unconscious ones; as well as humility. I also bring to the task resoluteness in order that learning that is necessary is considered and not avoided.

I am comfortable working with Kleinian, Freudian and Independent theoretical traditions. My approach to supervision bridges these traditions bringing together, for example, containment, play and focuses on projective processes, developmental processes, the environment and task at hand.

Formats offered:

I am able to offer face-to-face supervision, or via Zoom or telephone.

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