Clinical Supervision

WHITE BARN THERAPY

Fundamentally, the supervision space is your space.

What do you need from supervision?

The relationship between you and your supervisor is the backbone of effective supervision,

so we’ll always begin by understanding you, and your needs.

Why Choose to Be Supervised by Rebecca?

Rebecca is warm, friendly, caring, and extremely passionate about counselling, and psychotherapy. As your supervisor, she’ll offer you a reassuring sense of being held, whilst inspiring you to continually discover more about yourself, and your work.

As someone who runs a successful, and busy private practice, Rebecca’s approach to psychotherapy is up-to-date, and her approach to supervision is empathic towards the realistic challenges that the work can present.

Rebecca is passionate about offering her own psychotherapy client’s a high standard of mental health care, and she extends this to her supervision practice, by offering you a highly supportive, and developmental supervisory experience.

Rebecca is extensively trained in a variety of modalities and practices, using a multitude of integrative and pluralistic theories and techniques. Therefore her ability to focus specifically on you, and your clients by tailoring the work accordingly, is often experienced as insightful and eye-opening

What to Expect

Supervision is an essential part of any ethical, and professional therapeutic practice

My role as your appointed supervisor is multi-dimensional. To give you an idea of what you can expect, I’ve included some typical examples below:

Fundamentally I will help to guide you towards a safe, and ethical practice. I will provide you with a space to discuss the challenging complexities of your work.

My aim is to support you and the continued development of your reflective practice, by exploring the intricacies of your personal process. I will become a sounding board for any confusion you encounter in relation to your client work, and help you to seek solutions for any ethical dilemmas.

I will enable you to explore both personal and relational issues that occur as a result of, or which could impact your client work. I will endeavour to shine a light on the shadows of your practice, bringing to the forefront, things which you had perhaps not seen due to your closeness to the work.

I will discuss your work from a relational angle, exploring the dynamics between you and your clients.

I will use theory, and psychological insight to ensure there is an educative element to our discussions. I will provide you with a space where you can familiarise yourself with new ideas, concepts, and ways of working, that you may not have tried previously.

Feeling Supported in Your Work as a Therapist

Together, we’ll sensitively and appropriately explore your clients, what they present, what they don’t share, and what they might be experiencing. We’ll reflect on your processes so we can identify what’s happening for you internally, as a parallel to your clients, and what you might be counter-transferring.

We’ll also take into consideration our relationship, and other external factors that could be impacting on your work. Essentially, together we’ll strive to sustain a safe, ethical, reflective, and developmental supervision, which strengthens, and enhances your therapeutic practice. My role is to help you through this process without judgement or criticism, and for me to share openly and honestly with you, my thoughts about what I experience, as you present your content. I may on occasion share information, offer suggestions, present ideas for exploration, strive to expand your thinking/perspective, and propose exercises that might help to reveal more.

As our work progresses, it may become clear that you have particular elements of your work that would benefit from further exploration or ‘focused work’. We may even establish that working towards certain outcomes would be beneficial. There is no pressure to do or speak about anything in particular (excluding any legal, and professional requirements). You will set the focus for each session. We may explore things that you find hard to address, but always within the confines of what feels right for you.

Examples of what Supervision Includes:

My role as your appointed supervisor is multi-dimensional and to give you an idea of what you can expect, I’ve included some typical examples below:

Fundamentally I will help to guide you towards a safe and ethical practice. I will provide you with a space to discuss the challenging complexities of your work.

I will discuss your work from a relational angle, exploring the dynamics between you and your clients.

I will use theory and psychological insight ensuring there is an educative element to our discussions. I’ll provide you with a space where you can familiarise yourself with new ideas, concepts and ways of working, which you might not have previously tried.

Together, we’ll sensitively and appropriately explore your clients, what they present, what they don’t share and what they might be experiencing. We’ll reflect on your processes so we can identify what’s happening for you internally, as a parallel to your clients and what you might be counter-transferring.

We’ll also take into consideration our relationship and other external factors that could be impacting on your work. Essentially together, we’ll strive to sustain a safe, ethical, reflective and developmental supervision, which strengthens and enhances your therapeutic practice. My role is to help you through this process without judgement or criticism and for me to share openly and honestly with you, my thoughts about what I experience as you present your content. I may on occasion share information, offer suggestions, present ideas for exploration, strive to expand your thinking/perspective and propose exercises that might help to reveal more.

As our work progresses, it may become clear that you have particular elements of your work that would benefit from further exploration or ‘focused work’. We may even establish that certain goals would be beneficial. There is no pressure to do or speak about anything in particular (excluding any legal and professional requirements). You will set the focus for each session. We may explore things you find hard to address but always within the confines of what feels right for you.

Contact me for more information

Supervision Services and Fees

Rebecca has current availability for new Supervisees.

If you need a group Supervisor please get in touch to discuss this further. Fees will be arranged based on the specific requirements of the group (number of therapists, duration, travel costs, location fees, etc).

The Supervisory Triad

Supervision creates a triangular dynamic between the client, the therapist, and the supervisor. By the therapist choosing to participate in clinical supervision, both the client and the therapist can benefit from a third person whose intention is to objectively nurture the work which is taking place.

As you can see from the diagrams:

Image 1) the supervisor objectively observes the therapy between the client and the therapist.

Image 2) this is achieved by the supervisor working directly with the therapist, but holding the client in mind at all times.

By being a therapist who participates in regular supervision, you’ll offer your clients the peace of mind that your work, and the impact of it on both you and them, is being confidentially, and anonymously overseen by an external and non-biased professional, who adheres to the same ethical, legal and moral considerations.

The client can take peace of mind from the fact that the work is being objectively and professionally monitored, whilst the therapist will experience a sense of being held, supported, and developed in their practice.

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