My approach to clinical supervision is grounded in over 15 years’ experience across NHS services, third-sector organisations, and private practice. I offer supervision to psychologists, counsellors, and psychotherapists working with complex clinical presentations who value reflective, relational and experiential practice.

A central principle in my work is that the person of the therapist is one of the most potent influences on therapeutic outcome. Yet we often spend too little time refining our instrument: noticing what becomes activated in us, where we tighten, avoid, over control, or become uncertain, particularly when working under pressure. Supervision therefore includes careful attention to the therapist’s own anxieties and resistances as they arise in clinical work, so that learning becomes embodied and clinically usable, not just intellectual.

Throughout my career, I have supervised clinicians working with a wide range of difficulties, including anxiety, trauma, medically unexplained symptoms, somatic distress, attachment-related difficulties, and long-standing relational patterns. I have a particular interest in supporting practitioners who work with clients whose distress is expressed physically or who present as high-functioning while privately struggling with emotional pressure, burnout or chronic internal tension.

Alongside my clinical work, I have supervised within NHS teams and contributed to the training and development of therapists across different levels of experience. I have also delivered workshops and reflective practice groups in multidisciplinary settings, supporting clinicians to deepen formulation, therapeutic process and the emotional impact of the work.

Supervisory style
My supervisory style is collaborative, active and thoughtful. I aim to provide a clinically rigorous space where supervisees can reflect openly on their work, including uncertainty, emotional challenge and moments of stuckness, while also staying oriented to effective intervention.

I draw on psychodynamic and relational approaches, Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT), CBT, and somatic perspectives. This integrative framework allows supervision to be tailored to your orientation, level of experience, and clinical context, while remaining focused on what will make the work move.

Supervision is not solely about technique. It is also about understanding the relational dynamics between therapist and client; the emotional and somatic communication taking place in the room; and the wider systemic context of the work. The supervision is strongly person-centred in this sense, with careful examination of transference and countertransference dynamics, including supervisor-supervisee parallel processes when they are clinically relevant.

Where appropriate, I support supervisees in:

• Developing clear, coherent formulations that guide intervention
• Tracking emotional and somatic processes that maintain symptoms
• Working with complexity, ambiguity, and therapeutic impasse
• Using countertransference and “use of self” clinically and ethically
• Maintaining robust professional and organisational boundaries
• Managing burnout, imposter feelings, and the emotional demands of clinical work

Areas of supervision focus
I'm particularly well suited to supervising clinicians who work with:

• Medically unexplained or stress-related physical symptoms (functional / mind–body presentations)
• Anxiety and trauma with prominent somatic components
• Attachment-related and relational difficulties
• High-achieving or high-responsibility clients
• Complex, long-term, or treatment-resistant presentations
• Therapists experiencing doubt, stuckness, or emotional fatigue

Training, qualifications and registration

I hold a Certificate in Clinical Supervision accredited by the British Psychological Society and have extensive experience supervising clinicians in NHS and private practice settings.

I'm a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). My supervisory practice is informed by current ethical guidance and best-practice standards.

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