When the story is done, we must return to our skin, our own worldview, and notice how we have been changed by our visit.

Valerie Kaur

Individual Supervision

We know it's best practice. But do we prioritise it?

We know that good quality clinical supervision is essential to remaining professional and accountable: to our clients, workplaces and, of course, ourselves. It is an excellent space to explore the impacts of the work, how we interact with clients, gain support around difficult clients and dynamics between client and therapist.

Are you receiving the kind of high quality clinical supervision that both supports you and challenges you to be the best clinician you can be?

I believe self awareness is key for practitioners working in therapeutic settings, to ensure ongoing best practice and avoid burnout and compassion fatigue, minimising the effects of vicarious trauma (taking on the trauma experienced by our clients). Regular clinical supervision ensures a commitment to self-care and self-reflection that can only enhance your practice with clients, as well as providing you with support and skill development.

It is an opportunity to accelerate your growth and development as a practitioner, reflect on career expansion, and explore what else is possible for you as a person, working in this field.

Workplace supervision can be focused on casework and other operational issues as well as, or at times in priority to, clinical supervision. Sometimes your supervisor will not have the professional background or expertise to provide good quality clinical supervision. For this reason, external supervision is equally as important as internal supervision, as it provides a space for confidential clinical and personal career reflection which is not impacted by the needs of the organisation.

‘Embodied’ supervision incorporates the practitioner’s humanity, physical form, sexuality, identity, dreams, desires, professionalism, education, history, experiences, values and ethical frameworks into explorations about the spaces created by client, clinician, organisation and the culture/s these sit within.

As supervisor I guide, mentor, inspire, emotionally support you; we grow your insight and understanding into yourself and your clients/practice; I walk beside you, we reflect together, and I provide non-judgemental witnessing. As a supervisee, you bring your experiences, self awareness, cases, structural and practice dilemmas, and your vision for yourself as a professional, for us to explore, experiment with, and evaluate.

Individual supervision sessions online

Online supervision is conducted over zoom. We ask that your camera remain on unless otherwise agreed with your supervisor, to track the body's signals, bring focus to embodiment, and notice any signs of vicarious trauma during the sessions. Confidentiality will be maintained unless there is risk to self, other or children, and your supervisor takes responsibility for acting upon this should it be required.

As part of your membership, conveniently book into the session time that suits you via the calendar in your membership portal. Individual supervision sessions run for an hour, and in that time we focus deeply on what is most important for you to address in the work. You are welcome to bring specific issues, cases or dilemmas; however this is not essential. We can easily uncover the themes or clients to prioritise through following where your attention goes during the session, and focusing on your body’s messages.

In supervision, we take an open, curious and non-judgemental approach to exploring the impact of stories, cases and systems that may be contributing to burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. If there are risk issues identified that require further action, your supervisor will discuss any safety planning that may be required; transparency, support and collaboration is always the aim.

trauma informed clinical supervision

A space where you can freely explore your experiences in the work and how this impacts your body, emotions and electromagnetic field. Focused attention is brought to autonomic nervous system responses, transference and counter-transference. Relational and process-oriented.

supervision is tailored to your needs and learning style

Do you prefer support and encouragement, robust challenge, rigorous accountability? Do you learn through experiencing, reflecting, or taking in information?

multiple approaches

Supervision draws from narrative, trauma theory, art therapy

At Embodied Supervision, individual supervision focuses on creating space to come into your authentic self and fully validate yourself, so you can be clear about which steps you need to take to look after yourself in the work and build your professionalism in ways you would like.