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.
“My husband and I came for couples counselling and I don’t think we’d have stayed together if Elspeth hadn’t helped us really look at our relationship and make some real changes.”
S & H, Chippenham (Counselling)“A contemplative and thought provoking weekend that really allows positive steps in thinking through the way ahead and imagining the reality of what that will look and feel like.”
My Next Chapter Alumni“Great conference – you talk about areas of our work that we seldom visit and really bring it to life. Thanks for the adventure!”
Training client“One would never think that in 52 hours, I could gain absolute clarity on what's important to me, what I want the next 3-5 years of my life to look like and the critical steps required to accelerate my journey to that ideal.”
My Next Chapter Alumni“Having supervision with Elspeth is the best professional decision I have made. I am challenged and stretched, nurtured and affirmed and I have gained so much both personally and professionally from her wisdom, which she shares so generously. It’s a privilege to say she is my supervisor.”
Gillian Richards, University Student Counselling“Elspeth is our ‘Go-To’ professional for dilemmas that we face in both our Counselling and Training Services and she has always helped us reach ethical resolutions.
Malini Sridhar, Executive Director, Parivarthan Counselling, Training and Research Centre, Bangalore“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“A joyful yet reflective space to review how I got to here and to consider a chosen way forward.”
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