Clinical Supervision for Therapists

Supervision is where you get to think aloud about your work, with someone who takes the clinical detail and your own experience of it equally seriously.

I offer clinical supervision to therapists, counsellors and other practitioners in the helping professions – individually and in small groups, online, in English.

Whether you are in training, recently qualified, or many years into practice, supervision should leave you clearer, steadier and more honest about what is actually happening in the room.

We begin with a free introductory call, with no obligation, to talk about what you need and whether we are a good fit.

How I work in supervision

My approach is integrative and relational with a foundation in the somatic aspect. The relationship between us is part of the work, not a backdrop to it – a lot of what matters about your work with a client shows up in how we talk about it.

Different stages of a career need different things. Early on, you may want more structure, more containment, and permission to not know. Later, you may want a thinking partner who will push back. I’ll adjust accordingly, and I’d rather you tell me directly when I’ve got it wrong.

I draw on what I’ve trained and practised in: relational and humanistic approaches, psychodynamic thinking, cognitive-behavioural work, EMDR and trauma-focused practice, and somatic and body-oriented work. In supervision these are resources, not a model I expect you to adopt. If you work in a modality I don’t practise, let me know on the introductory call and we’ll test it rather than assume that it isn’t possible.

Supervision is not only about your clients

You are the main instrument of your work, and instruments need attention.

Alongside material related to your client, there is room here to look at transference and counter-transference: what a particular client stirs in you, and what your own history is doing in the room. Supervision is not therapy, but neither is it a space where you have to leave yourself outside the door.

There is also room for the aspects of the job that rarely come up when the focus stays on the client: ethical dilemmas and the grey areas that don’t resolve cleanly, organisational dynamics, workload pressure, being managed by people who have never done the work, and the ordinary question of how you keep going in a very demanding profession.

The things that are hard to bring

Most practitioners have something they haven’t taken to supervision. Where you’re stuck and embarrassed to still be stuck. What you find yourself avoiding. The session that went somewhere you didn’t intend. The client you dread, or feel relieved to have cancelled, or think about far more than the others.

Attraction is on that list for almost everyone, and it is talked about far less than it happens – enough that it became the subject of my MA dissertation, on erotic transference and countertransference in supervision. Finding a client attractive is ordinary. It is not a failure of professionalism and it is not, in itself, a sign that anything has gone wrong. What matters is whether you can look at it – what it tells you about the client, about the relationship, about what’s being enacted between you – rather than managing it alone and hoping it passes. Attraction that can’t be spoken about is what becomes a risk. Attraction that can is often clinical information.

The same is true of the rest of it: irritation, boredom, envy, feeling out of your depth, the thing you did that you’re not sure was right.

My job is not to be impressed by you. It’s to be a place where you can present your work and look at what actually happened. At times I might ask difficult questions and I’ll be straight with you if I think something needs attention, but you will not be shamed for having a human response to a human being. Supervision that only ever hears the tidy account isn’t doing much.

Areas I welcome

These are areas I work in myself, so I can hold the detail without you having to explain the basics. I don’t offer them as separate specialist services, and you don’t need to work in any of them to bring your practice here.

Trauma and EMDR

Complex and developmental trauma, single-incident work, occupational trauma, and the pacing questions that come with all of it. I can support your EMDR practice reflectively: protocol drift, when to stop, what to do when processing stalls, and the impact on you of sitting with it. This is clinical supervision, not accredited EMDR consultation; if you need supervision that counts toward EMDR accreditation, you’ll want an accredited consultant.

Gender, sexuality and relationship diversity

Work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary clients; gender questioning; kink and BDSM; non-monogamy and open relationships. Also the things that are harder to say out loud in supervision: your own discomfort, your assumptions, the moments you noticed yourself pathologising something, or over-affirming it to avoid getting it wrong.

Psychedelic preparation and integration

Reflective supervision for practitioners doing preparation and integration work: scope and boundaries, what integration actually asks of a practitioner, holding material that doesn’t fit ordinary frames, and the ethical questions that come with a fast-moving and unevenly regulated field.

General integrative practice

Most of the supervision I do isn’t about any of the above. Bring your work with your clients as it is.

Individual and group supervision

Individual supervision gives you the whole session and the closest attention to your own process.

Group supervision is offered in small groups. You get less airtime and a great deal more perspective by hearing how the other practitioners would have dealt with the client or issue that you bring forward. Groups also cost less per session.

Some supervisees use both: individual regularly, group less often, or the other way round. Frequency is something we decide together, based on the number of clients you see, your stage of practice, and what your professional body requires.

Who I supervise

Trainees on placement, newly qualified practitioners, and experienced clinicians who want a supervisor who won’t just agree with them. Counsellors, therapists, coaches, and practitioners in adjacent helping professions.

If you’re not sure whether your role fits, ask me during the introductory call.

Training and experience

I am a licensed supervisor with the Malta Psychotherapy Professions Board and hold an MA in Professional Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy Supervision from Middlesex University, London: a supervision qualification specifically, not a general clinical one.

I have worked as a supervisor and tutor on the MA in Advanced Clinical Practice at the Minster Centre, London, and I co-managed and supervised a team of therapists at the London Fire Brigade, across both general and trauma work, including in the period after Grenfell fire.

I am also an ICF-trained integrative coach, which is relevant if your work sits somewhere between therapy and coaching, or moves between them.

In private practice I have supervised across a range of disciplines.

What supervisees say

Fees, frequency and your professional body

Session length, fees and scheduling are on the Practical Information page.

If you belong to a professional body, please check its supervision requirements before we start. Required hours, ratios to client work, and what counts as a qualifying supervisor vary considerably between professions, countries and stages of practice. It’s worth confirming rather than assuming.

Ready to start?

Book a free introductory call.

We’ll talk about your practice, what you’re looking for, and whether working together makes sense.
No obligation either way.

Book a free call