Supervision for helping professionals
Independent supervision offers you a confidential space to pause and reflect. To make sense of stressors, complicated dynamics and thorny ethical issues. If you'd like to feel more supported in your work, then you're in the right place.
If you work in a helping role - whether you’re a teacher, medic, social worker, support worker or in another caring profession - you likely carry a great deal, often quietly and without much space to unpack it. Having a neutral, confidential person to talk to can make all the difference. Many people describe supervision as a kind of pressure release valve - a space where you can be open, speak freely, reflect and process whatever’s coming up for you in your work. It can be a powerful way to prevent burnout and support a healthier work/life balance, helping to ensure that the emotional weight of your work doesn’t spill over into the rest of your life.
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Independent supervision offers a safe, boundaried space where the focus is on your professional world - though if something personal is affecting your work, it’s absolutely okay to bring that in too. This isn’t line management: we don’t set performance targets or development goals. Instead, you set the agenda for each session, allowing you to focus on whatever feels most pressing at the time. Everything we talk about is confidential, which means you can speak honestly, knowing that your manager or colleagues won’t hear about what’s shared.​
Supervision with me can be helpful for professionals whose work involves supporting other people, such as:
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​School staff (such as head teachers, senior leadership teams, teachers, lecturers and support staff)
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Social workers
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Designated safeguarding leads
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Healthcare workers such as medics and nursing staff
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Carers and support workers
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Youth workers
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Hospice staff
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This list isn't finite! If you feel supervision could be helpful for you, please contact me
Supervision is your time to pause and reflect - to look at the work you're doing, the environment you’re in and the relationships you're holding. Together, we can explore dynamics, notice patterns and think about how to approach situations that feel stuck or challenging. If you're considering making changes - whether in your role, your relationships or your approach - we can think those through together too.
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I’ll listen closely to what you share and offer reflections based on my therapeutic training and experience of working in a range of settings with children, young people and adults in a variety of clinical roles. Often my perspective may differ from those in your immediate team, which can offer a helpful new way of understanding the behaviour of others and of thinking about how you might respond differently.
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I work in line with the BACP Ethical Framework and the NZAC Code of Ethics, and within UK and New Zealand law. My role isn’t to judge your performance but if something comes up that you may have a legal obligation to act on - or avoid - I’ll let you know.
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Meeting online is a simple, time-efficient option. There’s no travel involved - just find a private, quiet space with a strong internet or phone connection where you feel comfortable enough to talk openly.
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If you would like to explore the possibility of us working together then please message me. Don’t forget to check out my FAQ below too!
FAQs about Supervision with me
What style of supervision do you offer?
I aim to build an accepting and empathic relationship so you feel secure enough to be honest and talk freely about your work. I will encourage you to both celebrate successes and explore challenging situations or dilemmas. Usually supervision sessions take the form of a discussion relating to your work, with a mutually agreed focus, reflecting on one or more aspects of your work. What we talk about is up to you and, at each meeting, I will ask you what you want to get out of the discussion. I see my role as primarily helping you to reflect; to offer you new perspectives and guidance if you are stuck; and to support you to develop professionally in line with your own aims and values. I use two theoretical models of supervision to help guide my thinking and structure discussions. I use Hawkins and Shohet’s* 7 eyed model to help me consider the relevant dynamics of all the relationships which may be affecting your work; and Page and Wosket’s** Cyclical Model to routinely structure supervision sessions. *Hawkins and Shohet (2012) Supervision in the Helping Professions. Open University Press ** Page and Wosket (2014) Supervising the Counsellor and Psychotherapist: A Cyclical Model. Routledge
Who do you work with?
I supervise professionals based in Aotearoa New Zealand, the United Kingdom and a number of other countries too. If you are based outside the UK or NZ then please contact me to discuss whether we can work together (with due regard for the relevant law in our respective countries).
Can you tell me about your background?
I started supervising counsellors and therapists in 2013 and have worked with a wide range of professionals since then. These have included: Trainee and qualified counsellors, both individually and in groups Psychotherapists, art therapists and drama therapists Head teachers Designated safeguarding leads Social workers You can find out more about the experiences and qualifications I bring on the About page and if there's something specific you want to know then please send me a message to ask.
How can I arrange supervision with you?
Please either contact me or book online to arrange a free conversation of up to 20 minutes. During this we can talk together about what is prompting you to seek supervision at the moment, whether my style of supervision is likely to be helpful for you and whether we both have availability to be able to meet regularly. If we agree that supervision sessions together are practically possible and likely to be helpful, then I will email you an assessment form to complete and return by email, along with a copy of my standard supervision contract and privacy statement for you to read. We will also agree a time for an assessment appointment, usually held by online video. This assessment appointment lasts for up to 60 minutes and is charged for. The assessment appointment involves discussing one or two aspects of your work in more depth to trial how it feels for us both to work together. From this we can make a more informed judgment about whether we want to go ahead and meet on a regular basis. I usually meet with people online through the video conferencing platform Zoom. You can either send me a message through the contact page or book a conversation directly - whichever works best for you.
What are your fees?
A 60 minute session is $140 (NZD). If you are based outside Aotearoa New Zealand, I will invoice you in New Zealand dollars and ask you to pay through the Wise platform. $140 NZD equates to approximately £62 (GBP) and $130(AUD). Longer sessions are charged on a pro rata basis.
How often do I need to come?
Once the paperwork is completed, we will agree when to meet for regular supervision sessions. These can be scheduled to suit you and can either be on a regular basis, or can be booked in as and when needed to fit around other commitments.​ Everyone is different in terms of how much supervision feels useful and it may vary at different times. I suggest first thinking what would be most helpful for you (e.g. monthly, quarterly or termly meetings) and we can agree what will suit you best.
What records to you keep?
Brief notes of all sessions are held securely on electronic and paper-based systems, and your data is available for you to view on request. My systems comply with New Zealand's Privacy Act 2020, New Zealand's Health Information Privacy Code 2020 and the UK's Data Protection Act 2018.