Supervision for the whole of your practice

A place to think, feel and reflect

You may be seeking supervision that can hold both the clinical detail and the wider questions arising in your practice. Perhaps a client's spiritual experience is difficult to make sense of within one theoretical framework, or you want room to explore your own responses more fully.

My approach draws on integrative and transpersonal experience, with attention to the relationship, the psychological material and spiritual dimensions where relevant. I aim for supervision that is supportive and appropriately challenging, whether you are in training, newly qualified or long experienced. Alongside the cases you bring, there is room for your own growth as a practitioner. Many of the practitioners I work with are drawn to integrating the psychological and the spiritual, and value a supervisor who understands both.

What we can attend to

• The therapeutic relationship and your experience within it.
• Recurring patterns, uncertainty and the emotional demands of practice.
• Working psychologically with spiritual experience.
• Integrating different perspectives without losing sight of the client.
• Ethical dilemmas and clinical case discussion.
• Your own wellbeing and the impact of the work on you.
• Developing confidence, depth and awareness in your work, including support for trainees and newly qualified practitioners.

When your work touches more than you were trained for

Not everyone who comes to me for supervision is a psychotherapist.

If you work with the body (bodywork, massage, Reiki, craniosacral therapy or yoga), you will know that emotional material surfaces. Something releases, and the person in front of you begins to talk about what is really going on. Or they cry, and neither of you quite knows what to do next. That is not a failure of your work. It is often a sign that it is going well. But if your training did not prepare you for it, it can leave you unsure how much to invite, where your responsibility ends, and what to do with what you are left holding afterwards.

Mentoring offers somewhere to bring that. We can think about holding the boundary with care, recognising what belongs to you and what belongs to your client, knowing when to stay with something and when to refer on, and looking after yourself in work that asks a great deal.

You do not need a psychological background. You need somewhere to think.

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My background

I am a UKCP-registered integrative and transpersonal psychotherapist with over 25 years' experience, and I hold a BPS-approved Certificate in Clinical Supervision. My work also includes training and lecturing. I draw on psychodynamic, person-centred, Gestalt, transactional analysis, existential and transpersonal approaches.

Beginning supervision

1. Introduce your practice Get in touch with a brief outline of your work and what you are seeking from supervision.
2. Arrange an initial session We consider whether working together is suitable.
3. Agree how to work We discuss the format, frequency, fees and professional arrangements.

Supervision is individual, with group supervision available on request. It takes place online or in person at Cherry Tree Therapy Centre in Buckhurst Hill. Frequency is arranged to suit your needs and your professional body's requirements.

Learning alongside practice

I also run an experiential workshop for therapists on working with the inner child.

About the inner child workshop

Practical questions