Supervision

Fostering reflective practice, ongoing learning and growth

Supervision

gives you the space to reflect on your work with your clients, consider this work from a range of perspectives, understand the dynamics within the therapeutic relationship, and explore your own processes in relation to your clinical work . This enables best possible practice.

The supervisory process is an enriching process that promotes ethical practice, self-reflection and continuous learning.

  • Supportive

    We offer a supportive, reflective, creative space for psychotherapists, health care professionals and trainees to enhance their professional growth and effectiveness.

  • Creative

    We use a creative and embodied approach to supervision that allows you to consider your work from different perspectives.

  • Reflective

    Through reflection on your clinical work we help you deepen your clinical skills, explore personal and professional challenges, and cultivate self-awareness.

A creative approach to supervision

We offer a creative embodied approach to supervision where you can explore your work with others using your body, movement, and a range of creative arts media alongside talking. This helps you to deepen your understanding of your clinical work by engaging with unconscious processes. In this way you can gain new insights. Using this approach you can reflect on your clients’ needs and the dynamics within the work, untangle complex feelings in relation to the work, look at the relationship between your personal material and the therapeutic process, and explore possible directions for development.

The supervisory relationship

Being a supervisee is a transformative and enriching experience that encourages personal and professional growth and self-reflection. Through collaborative exploration and guidance you will have the opportunity to deepen your understanding, gain valuable insights, and enhance your skills. The supervisory relationship provides a sense of validation, mentorship, and encouragement, empowering you to become a more confident, reflective and effective clinician. It is a journey of continuous learning and professional development, fostering a deep sense of fulfilment and passion.

What we explore

  • Session Content: Reflecting on the content of your sessions, what is working well, what is more challenging

  • Therapeutic Relationship: Understanding the dynamics of the relationship between you and your client

  • Client Need: Considering the specific needs of individual clients

  • Personal Process: Exploring the impact of your personal material on the therapeutic relationship and process

  • Institutional Dynamics: Recognising the influence of the dynamics within institutions and how this might affect clinical work 

  • Skills Development: Supporting you in your professional growth and development

Who we work with

We work with a range of professionals in the fields of psychotherapy, health care, arts in health, and education catering to individuals at various stages of their careers. Whether you are an aspiring arts in health professional navigating how to apply creativity in a health context, a seasoned psychotherapist or health care provider wanting to deepen your understanding of your work with others, or an educator facing new challenges, our services are designed to support your unique professional journey.

Supervision testimonials

  • As a supervisor, Allison is supportive; she cares about me and my work and affirms my practice. She also has integrity and holds me accountable, challenging gently and firmly, so that my insight grows and understanding of my clients deepens. As a dance/movement psychotherapist, dance is central to my reflective process in supervision - Allison recognises what I need and gives space for this. Allison has a passion for the creative arts in all their forms and skillfully integrates creative and embodied processes in supervision. She draws from a wide knowledge base and experience and has strong intuition. Within this, she provides firm ground and containment for me to find my own answers. She also holds space for the wider context of my work, including my professional development and the edges that arise between personal process and client material. This allows me to integrate and grow along the journey, developing my skills, psychotherapeutic approach and specialisms.

    Anna

  • Allison has supported me as my supervisor since I first graduated. She has supported me in developing my practice and provided encouragement when needed. She creates a safe environment in which to work in and I have learnt so much by working with her.

    Martina

  • "It's been my privilege to be supervised by Allison in my work over the last seven years setting up and facilitating a therapeutic storytelling group. I cannot speak too highly of her as a supervisor. Her direct experience of therapeutic work in multicultural settings, her unflagging capacity to attend closely both to how I am and to the material I bring to work with, her finely tuned sensitivity towards the plight and states of mind of the asylum seekers and refugees in the group as described by me - all of these make for an insightful, clarifying and truly supportive supervisory ambience and relationship. On the rare occasions when urgent issues have arisen between scheduled sessions, Allison has made herself immediately available offering precious support and helpful advice. Being an experienced dramatherapist and clinical supervisor myself, I am all the more appreciative of the high-quality work Allison offers.

    Charlie

  • The supervision sessions I have with Allison have supported me through various stages of my professional career so far. Allison is personable and professional, and as a supervisor uses these qualities to help me to explore both the personal and clinical aspects of my own work. She allows me to reflect in a way that works for me and along with her vast experience and knowledge, Allison encourages me to draw on my own skills and resources in order to support my own clients.

    Imogen

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