Supervision

I have a Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Supervision, Team Support and Consultancy and I offer supervision to individuals and groups at all stages in their work. I believe that regular supervision creates a foundation and clarity.

I work with here and now issues in therapy and also believe that our personal history shapes our responses to present day situations. My approach to supervision work focuses largely on helping each supervisee find their own individualised style of working whilst remaining within their ethical and competence framework and retaining client well being as a priority at all times.

Supervision is a basic requirement once the student is ready to begin working with clients and, we believe, should continue throughout a practitioner’s career. It provides both the student and competent practitioner with a continuing overview of their competency in their work. An opportunity for the continuing development of understanding and skills, a forum to find support, challenge and encouragement and a necessary monitoring of the work with clients. (Sills Fish and Lapworth, Gestalt Counselling 1995).

Supervisors serve as the keepers of the faith and mentors of the young. (Alonso, in Michael Carrol, Counselling Supervision, 1996).

Supervision Article

As part of my work towards my Diploma in Supervision at Whittington Hospital School of Counselling and Psychotherapy I produced the following article in 2000. I have included the article here as it explains more fully the model of supervision that I use in my practice.

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