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.
“Insightful, supportive, challenging, witty, everything one could look for in a supervisor! Elspeth really helps me to review my own casework constructively and gives me the opportunity to offload my thoughts and feelings in a safe environment. I couldn’t do my role without her input and support!”
Greg Pirt, Chartered MCIPD, MIW (Acc.), Welfare Advisor & Accredited Insights Discovery Practitioner, Natural Environment Research Council“A brilliant opportunity to network and collaborate with others to form and develop a meaningful future.”
My Next Chapter Alumni“A joyful yet reflective space to review how I got to here and to consider a chosen way forward.”
My Next Chapter Alumni“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“Elspeth is inspirational in her approach and in her way of working. Right from the beginning, Elspeth was clear in co-creating a space for myself and my practice to develop in the way it has. I cannot speak more highly of the level of professionalism and realism that Elspeth delivers in supervision.”
Andy Perry, Akousis Counselling“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“If you are thinking about your next chapter in life – attend this workshop!”
My Next Chapter Alumni“Elspeth has been my supervisor for many years, and has always given me the utmost in professional support. Her wisdom, guidance and warmth have been invaluable; Elspeth has assisted me through work transitions and challenges, and encouraged my development as a therapist.”
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