About supervision
Supervision provides a container for holding the therapeutic relationship.
As a qualified and experienced supervisor, I am passionate about the role of supervision, and the part that it plays in enabling therapists to do their best for the client and look after themselves. It provides a confidential space where the supervisee can develop their skills, resources, explore the impact of their work and find new ways of seeing whilst ensuring the safety of the client remains paramount i.e. to become a reflexive practitioner.
I enjoy working with both experienced practitioners and those just starting out. Supervision provides a place to examine and reflect on all aspects of working with people (ethical, relational, organisational, pastoral, and personal). It is a place where ethical issues and dilemmas can be discussed, whilst keeping risk to therapist or client in view to maintain ethical standards and good practice.
Supervision is a more collegiate relationship whilst providing accountability, support and education. My preferred model of supervision focuses on session content, counselling interventions, therapeutic relationship, supervisee’s process, supervisory relationship, supervisor’s process, and organisational issues (Hawkins & Shohet and Page & Wosket). Throughout, I am mindful of the supportive, educative, and managerial tasks of supervision identified by Inskipp & Proctor.
Supervision for EMDR practitioners incorporates all the above as well as the EMDR model and protocol specifics.
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but having new eyes” – Proust