Clinical supervision for psychotherapists and trainees

I offer clinical supervision for qualified psychotherapists, counsellors and trainees, both in person in Truro and online.

My background is in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and my supervisory work is informed by psychoanalysis, Lacanian theory, relational thinking, and the wider field of critical and contemporary psychoanalytic practice. I aim to provide a space in which clinical work can be thought about carefully, without reducing supervision to case management, technique or compliance.

Supervision is a place to speak about the difficulty of the work: what happens in the room, what gets repeated, what feels stuck, what becomes troubling, and what may be difficult to know or say. It is also a place to think about the therapist’s position, the frame, the transference and countertransference, institutional pressures, ethical questions, and the wider social and political conditions that shape clinical practice.

How I work as a supervisor

I do not see supervision as the application of ready-made answers to clinical problems. Rather, I understand it as a shared process of thinking: one that allows the work to become more legible, more bearable, and more clinically alive.

In supervision, we may attend to:

  • The presenting difficulty and the patient’s history

  • Transference, countertransference and repetition

  • Questions of diagnosis, structure and formulation

  • Endings, breaks, absences and the frame

  • Risk, safeguarding and ethical responsibility

  • The therapist’s anxieties, inhibitions or blind spots

  • Institutional and training pressures

  • The place of money, frequency, time and boundaries

  • What the patient may be asking for beyond the explicit request for help

Supervision can be especially useful when a case feels confusing, emotionally demanding, ethically complex, or clinically stuck. It can also support the development of a more confident and personally grounded clinical position.

For trainees

I have a particular interest in supporting trainees and early-career practitioners. Training can be intellectually and emotionally demanding, and the early years of clinical practice often raise questions that are not only technical, but personal and institutional.

Supervision can help you think about how you are finding your position as a therapist: how you listen, how you intervene, how you manage anxiety, how you understand the frame, and how you begin to develop a way of working that is both clinically responsible and genuinely your own.

I am also able to support trainees in thinking about clinical writing, case presentations, assessment, training requirements and the relationship between theory and practice.

For qualified practitioners

For qualified practitioners, supervision can offer a space to think beyond immediate clinical demands. It may be useful for ongoing case discussion, professional development, ethical reflection, or the wish to deepen one’s psychoanalytic thinking.

This may include work with long-term cases, impasses, endings, complaints or difficulties in the therapeutic relationship, as well as broader questions about practice, identity, institutions and professional life.

My background

I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and teacher. I trained at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and have worked in private practice for over ten years.

I am a founding member of the Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis (SSCP), where I have held roles including Chair of Council, Training Committee member, tutor, supervisor and teacher. I also co-coordinate the SSCP Low Cost Clinic in Cornwall.

Alongside my clinical work, I have a long-standing interest in psychoanalysis, art, critical theory, politics and contemporary culture. This informs my understanding of clinical work as something that is never simply private or individual, but always shaped by language, history, institutions and social life.

Beginning supervision

The first step is usually an initial conversation. This gives us a chance to think about what you are looking for, your clinical context, and whether I may be the right supervisor for you.

To enquire about supervision, please GET IN TOUCH.

Practical arrangements

Supervision can take place weekly, fortnightly or monthly, depending on your needs and any training or registration requirements.

Sessions are usually 50 minutes, although longer sessions can be arranged where appropriate. I offer supervision in person in Truro and online.

Fees can be discussed when you get in touch.