Supervision in Poole Dorset or online 

Supervision is a vital part of the counselling service you offer and it is important that you find the right support for you.

I am passionate about supporting counsellors fully, in all aspects of their work.

Supporting yourself is as important as supporting your clients.

In my previous corporate roles I was involved in training and mentorship and I believe this experience, alongside my counselling supervision training and 10 years of counselling experience in both private practice, volunteering and charity work means I can provide you with the support you are looking for.

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Supervision with Laura has been an invaluable experience. She has provided me with a dedicated space to explore my client work and delve deeper into my identity as a therapist. Through her guidance, I have felt immensely supported in my growth, both as a therapist and in building my therapy business.

Laura’s encouragement has been pivotal in my continuous professional development (CPD), offering insightful recommendations and helping me navigate through various learning opportunities. She fosters a safe, supportive environment that has allowed me to process my therapy work effectively, enabling me to grow and deliver my best work with my clients.

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We cannot do this role on our own, support is vital to keep your practice ethical, boundaried and safe.​

Supervision support also keeps you grounded, allows you to explore all aspects of your work, prevents burn-out and provides a safe space for you.

One of the areas I most enjoy working with is counsellors new too, or building their private practice, supporting you through your decision making processes, developing your practice and those, sometimes, anxious first few months or years of building a practice.

I have experience of working with supervisees in Private Practice as well as counselling students and work with my local training college providing group supervision sessions.

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I am happy working with individuals and groups from all areas of counselling practice.

I also run a Counsellors Networking Group in Dorset, bringing together counsellors for both professional development and social interaction, offering low cost CPD events and regular networking coffee mornings. This gives me a really good insight into the challenges we face as counsellors as well as helping me to understand the importance that development and co-learning plays in our role as counsellors.

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My qualifications and Experience

I am a CPCAB Level 6  trained  Therapeutic Counselling Supervisor.

 I have studied both the Cylical Model of supervision and the Seven Eyed Model of supervision.

I tend to favour working with the Cyclical Model but incorporate both models within my work as a supervisor.

This means that through our sessions we will focus on the relationship between you and your client and between you and me as your supervisor.

Our work will look at

• Contracting

• How the supervision session is relevant to your client work

• Exploring your work with your client

• Using the supervision space to learn from your work with your client and consider how to integrate this back into your sessions and enhance your therapeutic relationship

• Review your client work so you can reflect on the standard and the quality of your work 

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As a counsellor I trained as a Humanistic Integrative Counsellor, with Person Centred being my main modality alongside Gestalt and Transactional Analysis.

I also have a Level 5 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy diploma and use CBT regularly in my work with clients who present with anxiety, which is my specialist area of work.

I have informally studied both IFS and Polyvgal Theory and find these both helpful in my counselling work.

I am a trained mindfulness teacher and incorporate this into my work, alongside CBT, which sits well within Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

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If you would like to know more about me, or how we could work together I am very happy to book in a chat with you online, so that we could explore further before committing to work together.

I am flexible in the way that I work, and many of my counsellors enjoy 2 x 45 minute sessions a month, or depending on your needs a 1.5 hour seession or 1 hour sessions as appropriate for your level of client work and your individual needs as a counsellor.

I believe that the relationship is as important in supervision, as it is in our client work and am a strong believer in the strength of the relational work we do together.

Your supervision space should be a safe and supportive space, as well as an enjoyable and, when needed, challenging space.

Growth comes from being able to explore all aspects of your work, what you bring, what I bring and what your clients bring.

This is a collaborative working space that we will nurture together.

 

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