Nowadays supervision is seen as essential in the professions of counselling
and psychotherapy, and of real benefit to almost everyone working in the
service sector.
In supervision you can review your own work in an atmosphere of stimulation
and interested enquiry, so as to remain well-motivated and effective. Its
purpose is to help you identify and meet your professional needs through
support and education, not to judge or condemn. While
challenge is part of the experience of supervision, and ethical monitoring
has its place, the aim is always to learn to think clearly, to develop
more confidence and enthusiasm, and to build mastery in the work.
I offer face-to-face supervision if you live or work near the
Essex/Suffolk border If you are further away, I offer telephone
supervision to qualified practitioners only and if you are on
SKYPE and have a webcam, we can arrange supervision by video
link.
We can negotiate times, frequency, and duration of supervision
sessions to suit your needs. Many BACP members choose to have
1½ hours
per month to comply with membership requirements, or to allocate this
between two fortnightly supervision sessions of ¾ hour each.
Social and advice workers, school teachers, occupational health personnel, complementary
health practitioners, physiotherapists, and probation officers are among those
who have found it valuable to have a confidential place to discuss their work
Well-run groups can be very powerful tools for a whole range of purposes
in organisations. They need good planning, clear goals, and appropriate
resources; but if these are in place, groups can become places where
synergy is generated – where the capability and energy of the group
exceeds that of its sum of individual members, and the general game is
raised.
I can offer single-event meetings and also on-going provision of
regular groups.
As a qualified teacher, I offer training in a range of ‘people-skills’ to
adults in both vocational and personal development settings. My experience
has included training Diploma students in counselling, and in clinical
supervision.
The capabilities fundamental to these professions are universal:
I have taught communication skills, assertiveness, emotional intelligence,
interviewing skills – all names for the knack of making contact between
two or more people effective and real. In business, as in our personal
lives, there is no substitute for this.
I am always open to discussion and negotiations
about the needs of learners and the ways in which training can be developed
to address them.
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