Supervision is one of the most significant supports we have in our work, enabling us to explore concerns, recognise achievements and gain the benefits of reflective practice for integrating new learning.

I offer the kind of supervision I like to receive which is warm and supportive but where I know I will be challenged appropriately when necessary. Having a protected space each month where you can review and consider your practice ensures that you are able to offer the best service you can to clients. I see this too when I have my own monthly clinical supervision.

Supervision is one of the main ways in which we can tie ourselves into the profession and also be appropriately transparent in the context of work, which is by its nature private and confidential, keeping us resourceful and ethical.

I offer a warm, non-judgemental, safe and confidential space where you can discuss your client work openly and honestly, where you will be supported to develop professionally and helped to address ethical issues in your work.  I use immediacy, challenge, education and support in sessions to help you to continue to work safely and ethically with your clients.

I qualified as a Person-Centred/Existential Counsellor in 2005.  I undertook a 2 year in-house Trauma Focused CBT training programme with the NHS in 2012.  I qualified as a Consultant Supervisor from a South Wales University in 2015. 

I did my supervisor placement with Cruse Bereavement Care in 2014/2015.  My experience of being a clinical supervisor since then has been wide and varied.  I supervised out of hours staff in a sexual assault referral centre and nursing staff in a safeguarding team in the NHS.  I supervised qualified and student counsellors in a domestic abuse charity in Cardiff for 2 years as well as supervising front line staff who provide one to one support to survivors of sexual and domestic violence over the phone.  I also supervised counsellors working in secondary education.

Currently I supervise five qualified counsellors who are in private practice.  I supervise qualified and student counsellors in two mental health charities in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan as well as a domestic abuse charity in the Vale of Glamorgan and with staff in Cardiff University.

I use the Cyclical Model (Page & Waskett) of supervision in my practice.  This allows us in individual and group supervision to ensure that we pay attention to safety and confidentiality at the start of every session.  We then go on to the “focus” of what you want to bring to supervision.  We then use the “space” to explore what is happening in the process with your client, looking at transferential issues.  This is also the space for education, encouragement and learning.  We then “consolidate” the learning and what you can bring back to your practice to help you and your client.  The final stage is “review”.  Here we discuss what was helpful in supervision, what we could do differently and we also celebrate things that went well in sessions with your clients.

I offer individual and group sessions (maximum of 4 per group) and I work face to face or over Zoom.