Person-Centered Supervision:

All Counsellors are required to receive regular supervision of their work for the protection of their clients. Indeed, you also need to have regular supervision to be a member of professional counselling organisations like: BACP, UKCP and other accrediting or registering organisations for counsellors.  

The challenge we have as Supervisor and Supervisee is to find a way of making the sessions as productive, supportive, useful, stimulating, reflective and as congruent, as we possibly can.  I endeavour to provide Person-Centered Supervision and I am a member of the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling [WAPCEPC].

My aim is to provide a space where you as a Counsellor can explore and reflect on your way of being with your clients, and the process and progress of the sessions.  Together we can reflect on the processes of relating in the therapeutic encounter, what this reveals about you the therapist, and what it may suggest about the client's attitudes and beliefs about their life.  

This can help to ensure you are maintaining the core conditions of congruence, empathy and unconditional positive regard.  It can also facilitate a return to the core conditions, where you may have jumped to conclusions or made assumptions about your client, which are based on your own experiences, attitudes and beliefs about life.

As a Supervisee, you can look forward to being guided, supported and constructively challenged in your work, whilst developing your self-reflection, understanding, awareness and abilities, in a safe and non-judgemental environment.  A setting where you can present your successes and mistakes, in equal measure, to fascilitate your personal development as a Counsellor and enhance the work you are doing with your client.

We will work together to build a relationship of mutual respect and exploration.  As a counsellor who is fully supported, you can feel confident to bring all aspects of the counselling process and counsellor/client relationship. Together we can ensure the client is getting the best help available, with you being able to try out new ideas, ask questions, disclose personal issues, discuss general practice, philosophical, theoretical, boundary and contracting issues; and anything else, which you as a supervisee would like to clarify or discuss as appropriate.

To summarise, through reflection and exploration of your work with clients, and occassionally taped sessions, I can help you to:

The Person-Centered Supervisor:

    1. Aims to understand the supervisee from the supervisee's point of view.

    2. Is exploratory and tentative, not dogmatic or diagnostic.

    3. Is economical in using language.

    4. Uses reflection to check understanding.

    5. Is warm and inviting, but not overbearing or sentimental.

    6. Establishes rapport and a working alliance.

    7. Aims to be authentic, open and real.

    8. Is engaged with supervisee, but not overwhelmed by them.

    9. Earns the trust of supervisees through being open and non-judgemental.

    10. Builds a relationship based on a 'way of being', not on techniques or methods.

    11. Does not direct or decide the content of the supervision session.

    12. Encourages a mutual, co-operative process.

(from: Merry,T & Lusty,B - 1995)

I have supervised counsellors at RELATE and in my Private Practice.

I offer Person Centered Counselling as well as supervision to trainee counsellors.

The fee for a one hour Supervision session is £40 and reduced rates are available for trainee counsellors.

Please contact me for further information.

If you need an empathic and caring Supervisor based in Nottingham then give me a call. I am in Toton - near Long Eaton, so I'm very easy to get to from Nottingham and Derby, and there is plenty of parking and disabled access.