MY CLINICAL SUPERVISION PRACTICE

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I achieved my Diploma in Clinical Supervision in 2011. The supervisees I have worked with – trainee, newly-qualified and experienced counsellors and therapists – have been based in schools, colleges, higher education, youth work settings and private practice. I have also supervised practitioners working in the broader helping professions, e.g. social workers, teachers (including SLT, pastoral staff and SENDCOs) youth workers, advice workers and a manager of a student welfare department.

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As a supervisor I provide what Page and Wosket called the Space (in their Cyclical Model).

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“This is the heart of the supervision process, the part of supervision in which reflection, exploration, recognition, insight and understanding can all occur.” (1994:103).

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I trained as an Integrative Supervisor, appreciating the myriad theoretical ways one can work with and help clients to achieve their therapeutic goals. My style is less approach-specific, while keeping faithful to the core conditions of the Person-Centred Approach (PCA) as a foundation.

Below describes my philosophy of practice as a clinical supervisor.

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“The function of the supervisor...is to create the atmosphere that will enable the supervisee to find his or her own style of being a therapist.  By doing so the supervisor also models the growth-promoting environment of congruence, acceptance and empathy.” (Bowen 1986:296)

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REFERENCES

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Bowen, M. (1986) ‘Personality Differences and Person-Centred Supervision’, Person-Centred Review, Vol 1, No.3, 291-309.

 

Page, S and Woskett, V (1994) Supervising the Counsellor. A Cyclical Model (2nd edition). East Sussex, Routledge.