Clinical Supervision
Overview
I offer an integrated creative and embodied approach to clinical supervision for therapists/counsellors.
My aim is to provide a reflective, educational, culturally sensitive and supportive, growth-oriented space that acknowledges your personal and professional experiences, as well as the therapeutic skills and knowledge you bring to your work. We invite your intuitive sense and knowledge of your client to explore and bring aspects of the client-therapist relationship, the transference/ countertransference and the systemic influences on the client into consciousness.
I work outdoors in Views Wood and Hempstead Wood in Uckfield, East Sussex, and offer some limited online supervision. I also run a Clinical Supervision group in woods near Selmeston, Eastbourne. If you are interested in joining us, please get in touch by email.
If youāre looking for a new supervisor and are interested in working in this way, give me a call. Letās have a chat about what youāre needing and whether we might be a good fit.
I also offer reflective practice sessions for staff in health, residential care, educational and social work settings. If this is your area of work, please contact me directly to discuss your needs.
My clinical supervision approach
I regularly invite my supervisees to work with art materials, imagery, story and their embodied impulses to deepen their understanding of the clientās story and their own responses. When we are working outdoors, we turn to the āother than humanā beings, processes and dynamics of the natural landscape to support our supervisory enquiry.
Here the supervisee may find a tree with broken off branches represents a āstuckā client that allows them to explore the client-therapist relationship and identify what the client is needing; there they might notice how a spiderās web represents the systemic predicament of a looked after child, and here again, when the wind is high, the supervisee may notice how this parallels the feeling they have when working with a particular client.
I use Shohet and Hawkin's 7-Eyed Model of Supervision (see image) as the basis for my work with supervisees. This allows us to consider and reflect on broader contextual and relational issues beyond simply the client-therapist relationship. I am interested to reflect with supervisees on what they are not bringing, as well as what they are bringing, to supervision.
Areas of interest and experience
My areas of interest and experience include developmental trauma, attachment, loss, grief, shame, anxiety and depression and parent-child relationships. I especially welcome supervisees who work with Looked After and Adopted young people and the adult support networks around them. As an adoptive mother and a therapist with many years' experience of working with this client group, I know how challenging this work can be.
Issues to bring to supervision
I encourage my supervisees to actively prepare for their clinical supervision sessions in order that, after an embodied check in, we can use the time we have together as effectively as possible. Sessions may include:
Guiding clinical case formulation, treatment planning and integration of theory into practice.
Fostering reflective practice, self-awareness and professional growth in supervisees.
Ensuring ethical, evidence-based care and effective risk management.
Providing emotional support, building confidence and promoting resilience.
Encouraging culturally responsive, inclusive and respectful therapeutic practice.
Any other issues and topics that are of relevance to the superviseeās work.
"I have deeply valued my outdoor supervision sessions with Lucinda. She listens deeply ā both to what you say and more importantly, what the body has to say. Her encouragement to stay with these unspoken stories has led to breakthroughs in my professional development as a therapist working with complex trauma. The way she incorporates nature and its gifts is a unique part of the process for me and I would recommend it highly."