Individual & Group Supervision
The Seven-Eyed Lens: Integrative Supervision for deeper Insight & professional growth
II provide clinical supervision for qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, trainees, and professionals in related helping fields, supporting their professional growth and enhancing the quality of their practice.
I offer supervision across diverse 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, allowing me to adapt to each supervisee’s unique needs.
I integrate the Seven-Eyed Supervision Model (P. Hawkins & R. Shohet) with the Psychosynthesis model, which offers a transpersonal perspective. This combined approach promotes reflective exploration while strengthening practical skills, fostering deeper insight, and enhancing professional competence.
The Seven-Eyed Supervision Model explores seven distinct dimensions of the supervision process, each offering a unique perspective:
Client Focus – Observes the client's physical presence, expressions, language, and life story. It explores the connections they make between different 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 their timing and purpose while exploring alternative approaches.
Client-Therapist Relationship – Enhances awareness of relational dynamics, including boundaries, therapeutic alliance, session flow, and the client’s transference.
Therapist’s Process – Focuses on the therapist’s emotional responses, countertransference, self-awareness, and self-care.
Therapist-Supervisor Relationship – Strengthens the working alliance between therapist and supervisor while addressing unconscious dynamics that may arise.
Supervisor’s Process – Encourages the supervisor to reflect on their own responses and feelings during supervision, using these insights to deepen understanding of the client-therapist relationship.
Wider Context – Considers the broader influences on the work, including the client’s social and cultural background, ethical considerations, and opportunities for growth and purpose.
All of these dimensions are explored within a transpersonal context—holding space for creative possibilities, seeing crises as opportunities for transformation, considering meaning and values, and fostering a connection to a deeper sense of self (I-Self connection).
While supervision ideally engages all seven modes, it is not necessary to incorporate each one in every session.
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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