Supervision
About me​​
I provide supervision to trainees and experienced psychotherapists and counsellors across various modalities. As a skilled psychodynamic and integrative psychotherapist, I manage my private practice and serve as a well-being mentor at universities. My background includes working at a diverse, low-cost mental health charity in Greenwich and as an IDVA in a crisis intervention team for a domestic abuse charity in Tower Hamlets. Prior to working as a psychotherapist, I have many years of experience working in communications and editorial in the publishing industry, an environmental NGO, and top law firms, allowing me to offer supervision across a wide range of organisational contexts.
My approach
I perceive the supervisory alliance to be an opportunity for collaboration, creativity and containment. A space to share ideas, hopes, concerns, safeguarding issues or stuckness within your practice. To think together about how supervisees can be empowered to notice and embrace the multiplicity of the options available to them. I utilise a process-oriented, integrative model with a focus on psychodynamic, relational, and somatic-based approaches. I explore transference and countertransference with supervisees to gain insights into client work and encourage creativity to address challenges and resistance that may arise. I am committed to cultivating a supervisory space which focuses on self-care. I believe that nurturing our well-being and personal development enhances our ability to emulate these conditions to support our client's growth.​​
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I also provide mentoring to both experienced and newly qualified psychotherapists and counsellors who are looking to set up in private practice but are not sure where to start. This involves consultancy on the various aspects of this transition from managing client load, marketing, and contracts, to managing finances and preventing burnout. ​​
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Who I work with
I am interested in collaborating with a diverse range of practitioners, particularly those who:
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Want to integrate psychodynamic concepts into their work.
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Are transitioning to private practice
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Feel stuck in their way of working and seeking a new perspective.
I have a particular interest and competency in supervising the following themes and demographics:
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Domestic abuse and coercive control
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Relational trauma
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Neurodiversity
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Codependency & enmeshment
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LGBTQ clients
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Perinatal issues
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Unconscious processes (e.g., countertransference)
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Supporting artists and musicians with creative challenges.
Model of supervision
The model of supervision I will be using most frequently is the Seven-Eyed model. The Seven-Eyed Supervision model was developed by Peter Hawkins and Robin Shohet in 1985, who integrated the relational and systemic aspects of supervision into a single theoretical model. The model is relational because it focuses on the relationships between client, therapist and supervisor, and systemic. After all, it focuses on the interplay between each relationship and its context within the wider system. The model is called “seven-eyed” because it focuses on seven distinct aspects of the therapeutic process:
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Eye 1: Focus on the Client
Eye 2: Focus on Interventions
Eye 3: Focus on the Client-Therapist Relationship
Eye 4: Focus on Therapist’s Process
Eye 5: Focus on Therapist-Supervisor Relationship
Eye 6: Focus on the Supervisor’s Process
Eye 7: Focus on Wider Context
There is no expectation for us to explore each aspect every time we discuss a client, but more a framework I will be keeping in mind when discussing your clients.
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Fees (supervision)​​
Trainee psychotherapists & counselling students:
​50 minutes: £60
1.5 hours: £80
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Qualified therapists:
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50 minutes: £70-80
1.5 hours:£100
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I have a limited amount of discounted slots, so please enquire if this is something you require. If all of my discounted slots are taken, I can still add you to my low-cost supervision waiting list.
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Opening times
Monday: 10 am - 2 pm
Wednesday: 10am - 2 pm
Saturday 10 am - 1 pm
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Please check my opening times and state which slots might work for you in your message. ​Even if our schedules don't align initially, I can still add you to my waiting list.
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Please also state whether you are looking for online, telephone or in-person sessions at my office in Exeter.
Location
I split my time between Greenwich in South East London and Exeter in Devon.
The COVID-19 pandemic made me realise that for many people remote sessions can make therapy more accessible and easier to fit around work, studying or a health condition or disability. I continue to see clients online and by telephone, and this allows me to work with people all over the UK and Europe.
​I currently only see clients in person at my office in central Exeter, Devon, UK. By appointment only. ​