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.
“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“Elspeth and Gil are a really warm welcoming couple who provided a positive and safe environment to have a thorough think about the future.”
My Next Chapter Alumni“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)“Counselling has really helped me work through my loss and begin to move forward. I really felt Elspeth understood how I felt.”
Mark, Corsham (Counselling)“Gil and Elspeth are great communicators who have created a wonderful environment in which to think about possible future lives.”
My Next Chapter Alumni“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“If you are thinking about your next chapter in life – attend this workshop!”
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 CounsellingCOUNSELLING
Make significant changes in your life.
Space to talk…
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Space to rejuvenate…
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