This section is for clinicians and trainees working with individuals in a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic manner looking for supervision
Supervision services
Supervision is essential for any psychodynamic or psychoanalytic work. The quality of our work as Psychotherapists is only made possible by the background presence of a third person. The supervisor creates a triangular space that facilitates another perspective potentially reducing the enmeshment of the therapist-patient dyad.
The challenges of supervision are multilayered. The clinician tries to communicate the essence of the therapeutic work; the supervisor tries to grasp the meaning of this work which involves a third person in another place. Addressing this complexity is part of the challenge of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Ongoing supervision is therefore an essential part of good clinical practice and the central source of continued professional development. Increasingly professional organisations require evidence of supervision for continued registration.
I have been supervising clinicians and trainees for over 25 years. I provide individual supervision to NHS and independent practitioners working with children, adolescents and adults. The monthly psychotherapy supervision group that I facilitate in CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) has been running for over 20 years, and has consistently had positive feedback. In recent years I have been running reflective groups for Youth Offending Services at both practitioner and management level.
For child and adolescent work
I am registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists, as a Senior Member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation and the Independent Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Association. I am also a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists.
For adult work
I am registered with the British Psychotherapy Foundation and the British Psychoanalytic Council.