Clinical Supervision

As a supervisor, I provide one-to-one supervision and consultation for counsellors, therapists, psychologists, and other ‘people practitioners’ seeking a committed, collaborative, and creative approach to supporting and developing their work with clients, patients, and service-users.

I supervise a diverse range of practitioners, from trainee counsellors to therapists, and I also offer professional supervision for supervisors. There are seven areas of focus that encompass the client, the therapist, the supervisor, the relationship between therapist, client, and supervisor, and the wider system.
The Seven Eyed Model of Supervision
 

Eye 1: Focus on the Client

Focusing on the client can help the supervisor become more attuned to the client’s motivations, needs, and desires in the here and now of the therapeutic relationship. It can be an effective way of empathising with the client, experiencing the therapeutic relationship from their perspective.

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Eye 2: Focus on Interventions

Focusing on the interventions the therapist uses with clients allows the supervisor to discover hitherto covert aspects of their therapeutic relationships. 

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Eye 3: Focus on Client-Therapist Relationship

The therapeutic relationship created by both therapist and client is the vehicle of therapeutic change. The quality of the relationship is often the deciding factor in the therapeutic outcome.

To help get perspective of a therapeutic relationship, it can be useful to consider the relationship in terms of metaphor, or by taking a perspective view on it.
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Eye 4: Focus on Therapist’s Process

Their ‘process’ is the sum of their moment-by-moment thoughts, emotions, sensations, and behaviours in response to their client. They can use awareness of their process to discover what within them might be hampering the therapy. 

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Eye 5: Focus on Therapist-Supervisor Relationship

What happens in the counselling room may be played out between therapist and supervisor. This is called parallel process. For example, the therapist may become angry, tearful etc when talking about their client and discovers that their client is experiencing the same emotions. Parallel process may also operate in reverse, the relationship between therapist and client may mirror what happens outside of the therapists awareness between them and their supervisor. 

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Eye 6: Focus on Supervisor’s Process

The supervisor must also turn their attention to their own process. By the supervisor focusing on their own process, it will help them gain insight into parallel process, the quality of supervisory relationship and the ‘relationship-by-proxy with your client, which is how the supervisor would imagine your client to be, how they imagine the therapeutic relationship to be, and how they imagine they might interact with the client if they were in your place. The supervisor focusing on their own process can help identify how your relationship with them mirrors that of your relationship with your client.

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Eye 7: Focus on Wider Context

The wider context is the current and historical background of the client-therapist-supervisor relationship and is comprised of two important types of influence, which are called Stakeholders and Ghosts. 

Supervision:
£50 for 1 hour
£75 for 90 minutes

Supervision is available for therapists, counsellors, and mental health professionals seeking a reflective and supportive space to improve their practice.

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