What is Supervision
The aim of clinical/professional supervision is to provide a safe, boundaried, reflective and discursive meeting space for qualified professionals to regularly review their practice, and to experience ongoing support for their work. The primary goal of clinical supervision is to protect the client’s welfare and ensure the integrity of clinical services, whilst offering appropriate professional support.
Purpose of Supervision
It is agreed that the aim of supervision is to address you, the supervisee’s development, offer support and enable you to comply with professional standards. The overall issues addressed within this relationship are the Normative, Formative, and Restorative aspects of supervision. We will also give recognition to the primary focus of supervision, being the welfare of the client through the supervisee’s learning process, in terms of skills development, experiential process and your ongoing growth and development as a professional.
Content of Supervision
Supervision will focus on the acquisition of knowledge, conceptualisation, and clinical skills. Other topics of interest may be identification, discussion and working through relationship and process aspects of client work as they relate to supervision. I recognise the uniqueness and individual needs of each supervisee and attend regular supervision and complete CPD in the interests of facilitating the best possible therapeutic space for the work.
How I work
I am an accredited Clinical Supervisor and abide by the Codes of Practice and Ethics laid down by the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) and by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I have completed a Professional Diploma in Supervision with Vital Connexions. This course is fully validated by the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. The Core Theoretical Model is Integrative using the Cyclical Model (Page and Wosket), the Process Model (Hawkins and Shohet), and the Developmental Model.