My approach to supervision
I am a qualified clinical supervisor working with both newly qualified and experienced counsellors and helping professionals. While my therapeutic modality is person-centred, my supervision work is grounded in an experiential, humanistic and relational approach and is open to practitioners from a range of training backgrounds.
Supervision with me offers space to slow down, reflect, and explore both the client work and your own process as a practitioner. I aim to be supportive while offering gentle challenge where it supports learning and development.
I have a particular interest in:
- transference and counter-transference
- parallel process
- practitioner self-awareness and blind spots
- ethical and contextual considerations
Many supervisees value gaining a different perspective and developing deeper awareness of how their own beliefs, experiences and responses show up in the therapeutic relationship.
Supervision framework
I work with the Seven-Eyed Model of Supervision (Hawkins & Shohet), exploring:
the client and their world
the interventions offered
the client–counsellor relationship
the counsellor’s internal process
the counsellor–supervisor relationship
the supervisor’s perspective
the wider social, cultural and organisational context
Client: presentation, history, therapy goals, roles, relationships, thoughts and emotions
Interventions: exploration of what the counsellor is offering the client, when and how it is offered and why.
Client-counsellor relationship: understanding of the relationship and how this may be a reflection of the clients process, engagement with the therapy, boundaries, transference and counter transference.
Counsellor: develop counsellor awareness of self, how this impacts on the therapeutic relationship, therapist triggers, resonance, blind-spots, feelings.
Counsellor-supervisor relationship: facilitation of blocks, rupture and repair, parallel processing
Supervisor: framework for understanding the client, discussion of ethical issues, appropriate self-discloser, educative, reflection on feelings and experiencing.
Context: Interface with social systems, organisational systems of client or counsellor, local national or global system, culture, class, ethnicity, faith, sexuality
Practical information
Fees:
- £60 per 60-minute session
- £90 per 90-minute session
- Limited reduced-fee spaces available
Cancellations:
- 50% fee for cancellations within 48 hours
Format:
- Online via Zoom
Availability:
- Monday: 10.00am – 6.00pm
- Tuesday / Thursday / Friday: 6.00pm – 7.30pm
Susan Coldwell Counselling and Supervision 