Counselling supervision
Deliver the best counselling to your clients
Deliver the best counselling
As a counsellor, you want to achieve the best for your clients. Counselling supervision helps you to monitor the quality of care you provide, reflect upon your work, develop your clinical skills and insight, and facilitate professional and personal growth. It’s also an opportunity for you to look after you own wellbeing.
Supervision is an interactive process. A blend of support and challenge that offers you encouragement, insight and constructive feedback. Our experience of supervision is that the supervisor is at times a teacher, consultant, evaluator, supporter, clinical advisor and colleague.
Our approach
Dr Elspeth Schwenk is an independent counsellor/psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. She is a Fellow with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has served in several leadership roles with BACP.
As a 'critical friend', Elspeth invites her supervisees to participate in a reflective conversation that ensures best practice. Her approach brings together:
- cognitive-behaviour, humanistic and psychodynamic theory
- creative, systemic and developmental techniques
- a focus on counsellor development and progression
- a belief that supervision should be a collaborative partnership
- an opportunity to work outside if appropriate
We provide supervision face-to-face, on the telephone, or via Skype or VSee. This can be in groups or on a one-to-one basis.
Who we can help
We work with individuals, groups, organisations, counselling agencies and Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP). This includes supervisees from within the workplace and staff support, student and staff counselling within higher and further education, healthcare settings, private practice, welfare support. We also support practitioners working with children and young people, and those supervisees working creatively and in nature-based settings.
Our counselling supervision covers a wide range of therapeutic modalities from an integrative perspective and reflects a systemic tapestry of supervision based upon several supervision models.
“One of Gil’s strengths is being able to get beyond the detail and help me gain new perspectives through coming at what I present from a totally different angle. He has been able to help me identify patterns in the way I work and to challenge my often unconscious associated assumptions and beliefs.”
Rebecca Stevens“As a designer of visioning and development workshops for people at all levels and all ages myself, it’s a reminder of how a ‘simple’ design can produce powerful results. Absolutely a magical experience.”
My Next Chapter Alumni“Elspeth has trained our Senior Staff Counsellors in Reflective Supervision and has conducted several Continuing Professional Development workshops for trained counsellors and mental health professionals during her visits to India.”
Malini Sridhar, Executive Director, Parivarthan Counselling, Training and Research Centre, Bangalore“I don’t know what I’d have done without your support and help over this past year.”
Dawn, Chippenham (Counselling)“What a lovely warm welcome we had from Elspeth and Gil. I felt genuinely supported and inspired to develop the next part of my life.”
My Next Chapter Alumni“It helped me to take stock of my whole life at an important turning-point for me in company with others in a similar position.”
My Next Chapter Alumni“Gil has been incredibly easy to talk to, has a common sense approach and a great sense of humour. Gil’s coaching helps me reflect on what I do and why, and the impact this has on others. The sessions have inspired me to take quick action on certain points and have boosted both my confidence. Empowering – thank you Gil!”
Samantha Vickers“If you are thinking about your next chapter in life – attend this workshop!”
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