Individual & Group Supervision
The Seven-Eyed Lens: Integrative Supervision for deeper Insight & professional growth
I provide clinical supervision to qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, trainees, and professionals from related helping fields, supporting their professional development and enhancing the quality of their practice.
I offer supervision in various settings, including private practice, the NHS, training organisations, and the voluntary sector, ensuring flexibility and relevance to different professional environments.
My supervision approach is grounded in extensive clinical experience and enriched by comprehensive training in integrative and transpersonal methodologies. This foundation allows me to adapt to each supervisee's unique needs.
I integrate The Seven-Eyed Supervision Model by P. Hawkins and R. Shohet with the Psychosynthesis model, providing a transpersonal perspective. This combined approach encourages reflective exploration and development of practical skills, fostering deeper insight and enhanced professional competence.
The "Seven-Eyed" model explores seven distinct dimensions of the supervision process, each offering a unique perspective:
Client Focus: Observes the client's physical presence, expressions, language, life story, and the connections they make between aspects of their life, including the choices they share and areas they wish to explore.
Interventions Focus: Examines the therapist's strategies, skills, and techniques, considering when and why they were applied, and explores alternative approaches.
Client-Therapist Relationship: Enhances understanding of relationship dynamics, including boundaries, therapeutic alliance, session flow, and the client’s transference.
Therapist's Process: Focuses on the therapist’s emotional responses, countertransference, self-development, and self-care.
Therapist-Supervisor Relationship: Ensures a strong working alliance between therapist and supervisor, addressing potential unconscious dynamics.
Supervisor’s Process: The supervisor reflects on their own responses and feelings during supervision, using these insights to understand the client-therapist relationship.
Wider Context: Considers the broader context, including the client’s social and cultural background, professional ethics, and values, and seeks opportunities for growth and purpose.
All of the above is addressed within the Transpersonal context by exploring creative possibilities, viewing crises as opportunities for growth, considering meaning, values, and shared humanity, and holding space for an emerging higher purpose (I-Self connection).
While supervision ideally involves all seven modes, incorporating each one in every session is not essential.
Supervision is a working alliance between the supervisor and counsellor in which the counsellor can offer an account or recording of their work, reflect on it, receive feedback, and, where appropriate, guidance.
The object of this alliance is to enable the counsellor to gain in ethical competence, confidence, compassion and creativity in order to give her best possible service to the client.
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