Brian Padden
Supervision for trainee counsellors, newly qualified counsellors and new to private practice.
Thank you for reading my profile. Having a supervisor who understands you, how you work and what you want to achieve in your career as a counsellor is vital. It can be the difference between that feeling of walking a lonely road, with the trepidation and anxiety that brings and feeling like you have a guardian angel on call to help with the ongoing issues that a complicated profession like counselling throws up.
I am a person-centred trained counsellor who blends Transactional Analysis and Creative Counselling into my sessions. Within our sessions, we will work using the Seven-Eyed Model of Supervision. This is a model which looks at seven specific aspects of the triad relationship of Supervision: The Client - The Therapist - The Supervisor.
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Trainee Counsellors: £60 for 90 minutes
Qualified Counsellors: £75 for 90 minutes
Consultation: Free
Availability: Daytime and evenings
Lauren Askins
BACP registered counsellor and clinical supervisor.
I offer professional supervision to qualified counsellors and counsellors in training, with a particular focus on therapeutic work with children and young people. My supervision practice is person-centred, collaborative, and reflective, valuing the supervisory
relationship as central to professional growth. I aim to create a safe and containing space where
support and appropriate challenge can exist simultaneously, enabling supervisees to deepen their understanding of themselves, their clients, and the therapeutic process. I have extensive experience supporting individuals affected by bereavement, including sudden
death, suicide, and sibling loss, within school settings and community services. I have a
particular interest in supervising bereavement work with children and young people and welcome
enquiries from counsellors working in this area.
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Trainee Counsellors: £60 for 90 minutes
Qualified Counsellors : £70 for 90 minutes
Consultation: free
Availability: evenings and weekends
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AJ Quarmby
Experienced person-centred clinical supervisor
I’m a person-centred clinical supervisor, with a good understanding of different therapeutic models. Working with a clinical supervisor can be like this: it’s an invitation to feel welcome and understood, and to attend to your Self in practice; it’s learning at the foot of experience – the supervisee’s, the client’s, and the supervisor’s; It can be both unlearning and new learning; and supervision helps you feel excited to meet your clients again – to see them anew. My supervision journey began when I was the co-ordinator of a network of therapists, providing training and 1:1 support. More recently, I was the lead mentor of a team of trainee counsellors in a domestic abuse project, meeting with each student on a weekly basis so they could reflect on their practice, and feel both sustained and free to develop.
Trainee Counsellors: £50 per hour
Qualified Counsellors : £60 per hour
Consultation: free
Availability: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, daytimes and evenings
Experienced NCPS Accredited Supervisor for Qualified Practitioners and Students
I offer specialist supervision for psychotherapists who work with neurodivergent clients. Therapy for neurodivergent clients needs to be delivered by specialists. It is therefore essential that supervision is received from a qualified practitioner experienced within this field. Over the years, I have found neurodivergent clients have expressed to me the difficulties they have had in accessing support and making progress, due to previous therapists not understanding their neurodiversity. This can be due to therapists’ making incorrect assumptions of behaviours/thinking styles and confusion because the clients may not be responding well to a neurotypical style of therapeutic interventions. If therapists and supervisors are not skilled in recognising when neurodiverse traits are present, it is likely that their treatment plans would be ineffective. It is important that their therapist can identify the root of their difficulties. Specialist supervision provides supervisees with the confidence to work flexibly and provide effective
support to their clients.
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Trainee Counsellors: Contact for prices
Qualified Counsellors : £70 per hour
Consultation: free
Availability: Tuesday mornings at present
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