Supervision
What is supervision
“Supervision is essential to how practitioners sustain good practice throughout their working life.
Supervision provides practitioners with regular and ongoing opportunities to reflect in depth about all aspects of their practice in order to work as effectively, safely and ethically as possible.
Supervision also sustains personal resourcefulness required to undertake the work”
“BACP Ethical framwework 2018”
Each Supervision practitioner will develop their own unique way of practising according with their own modality and philosophy for practice
Why do I need supervision
Almost all working environments will benefit from a regular supervision arrangement.
At this point I will differentiate between two areas of supervision.
- Management supervision carried out by a manager withing the organisation and supporting performance issues, workload, time management, roles and responsibility discussions
- Clinical or emotional support supervision by a trained individual without managerial power, where the supervisee reflects on their own wellbeing, what happened and what they did within their practice, to analytically work through ethical decisions to validate any decisions they may be making in their practice.
I guess because the BACP says I have to have supervision is the first thing that comes to mind, this isn’t actually a good starting place to start. If supervision is power based, the supervisor is unskilled or the relationship is not working then the tendency is for it to become a tick box exercise disliked by all.
I like to think of supervision as being like a pillow. A pillow that has had a hard night’s work with a hollow in the centre and feeling a bit squished. I see my job as picking this pillow up, ten to plump it up ready for the next night sleep
Three simplified components of supervision
Gatekeeper role
I am a guardian of professional standards, compliance and safeguarding.
Teacher role
At the student counsellor level there would be a significant educational component to supervision.
A meeting of professionals
Over time the relationship would develop and move from an educator role to one of a meeting of two professionals where they educate each other.
Martyn Blair and Supervision
I have studied various models of supervision and whilst they underpin my practice, a person centred philosophical approach remains essential to supervision
I am a person-centred supervisor and work mainly but not exclusively with person-centred therapists, having worked with therapists from other modalities in the past.
The relationship between the supervisor and therapist is at the heart of good supervision, my emphasis would be on the therapist’s experience in their work, including the relationship with the client. I seek to hold the value, that you as a therapist are the best expert of your practice as Whilst I would hope to share any relevant skill and experience, My hope is that supervision becomes the meeting of two colleagues in a shared professional experience, embodying the principles of Carl Rogers 3 central conditions.
I am an experienced supervisor, working in private practice and formally for the NHS for Coventry IAPT. I qualified at Warwick University achieving the Advanced Diploma in Person Centred Supervision Of Counsellors and Psychotherapists.
If you are considering working with me in supervision, we would need to meet to check your needs from supervision and for both of us to find out if we can work together. I offer Video supervision for those people that prefer to engage this way, or where distance is an issue. Sometimes clients choose an initial assessment session via Skype followed by face to face work
I am a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and work within their ethical code.
Sessions Pricing:
60 Minute session – Fee £55.00, and
90 Minute session – Fee £82.50
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