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Client work & formulation
Making sense of what is happening, noticing patterns and deciding what deserves attention without reducing the client to a technique or diagnosis.
Clinical supervision · Plymouth & online
Supervision for counsellors & hypnotherapists who work integratively
If your practice draws from both counselling and hypnotherapy, supervision should make room for the whole of your work — not ask you to separate it into different professional boxes.
I offer collaborative clinical supervision for therapists who want thoughtful reflection, appropriate challenge and a supervisor who understands both relational counselling practice and the purposeful use of hypnosis.
One practice, not two
You may be a counsellor and a hypnotherapist. Your supervision does not have to treat those as two separate professional identities.
A supervision space that can hold the whole of your practice
Integrative work can raise questions that do not sit neatly within one modality. You may be thinking about the therapeutic relationship, formulation or transference in one moment, and whether hypnosis, imagery or another experiential intervention has a useful place in the next.
Good supervision gives you room to think about both. We can explore not only what you might do with a client, but why you are considering it, how it fits your understanding of the client, what the ethical and professional implications are, and how you will know whether it is helping.
The aim is not to turn integration into a formula. It is to support you in developing a coherent way of practising that remains responsive to the person in front of you.
What we can explore
Clinical reflection with enough breadth for real practice
Supervision will be shaped by your clients, your setting, your stage of practice and your professional responsibilities. These are some of the areas we may think about together.
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Integrating counselling & hypnosis
Thinking carefully about when hypnosis, imagery, focused attention or experiential work may add something useful — and when the therapeutic conversation itself needs to remain central.
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Ethics, boundaries & safeguarding
Working through uncertainty, competing responsibilities, consent, confidentiality, risk and the professional boundaries that support safe practice.
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Your responses in the work
Exploring what is happening between you and the client, including moments of uncertainty, protectiveness, frustration, rescue, avoidance or strong emotional response.
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Competence & professional development
Recognising the edges of current competence, identifying useful CPD and thinking about when adaptation, consultation or referral is the most responsible next step.
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Private-practice realities
Reflecting on clinical boundaries, workload, endings, communication and practice decisions where the business of being self-employed intersects with client care.
Integration with purpose
Knowing a technique is different from knowing when it belongs
Training in more than one approach can give you a rich therapeutic toolkit. It can also create pressure to decide which method you are “supposed” to be using.
I am less interested in defending modality boundaries than in helping you think clearly about the purpose of your intervention. Sometimes hypnosis may deepen experiential work. Sometimes a client needs careful relational exploration. Sometimes the most useful decision is to do less, stay curious and allow your formulation to develop.
Supervision can help you make those choices with greater confidence while staying open to being wrong, changing direction and learning from what happens.
How I supervise
Supportive does not have to mean unchallenging
I want supervision to feel safe enough for uncertainty, mistakes and unfinished thinking to be brought into the room — while still being a place where assumptions can be questioned and professional responsibility stays visible.
Reflective & relational
We pay attention to the client, the therapeutic relationship and your own experience of the work rather than reducing supervision to case management.
Curious & appropriately challenging
I will offer ideas and clinical knowledge, but I will also invite you to examine what you are assuming, avoiding or being pulled towards when that is useful.
Practical & professionally grounded
Reflection should lead somewhere. Where a clear decision, boundary, conversation, piece of learning or next step is needed, we can make that explicit.
Supervision is not therapy. Personal material can become relevant when it affects clinical work, professional capacity or the therapeutic relationship, but the purpose remains supervision of your practice. If something needs a different kind of support, we can name that rather than asking supervision to do every job.
What I bring
Experience across counselling, hypnotherapy and integrative practice
I have worked in private practice since 2008 and am accredited as both a counsellor and a hypnotherapist. My own work has developed through integration rather than allegiance to a single technique.
I have particular clinical experience with OCD, intrusive thoughts, anxiety and trauma-related work, but your clients do not need to share my specialist client niche. What matters more is whether my way of thinking and supervising fits the kind of practitioner you are.
- BACP Accredited Counsellor with an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling.
- NCH Accredited Hypnotherapist with extensive experience using hypnosis within wider therapeutic work.
- Level 6 Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Supervision (CPCAB).
- BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Mental Health, awarded First Class Honours.
- Published and teaching experience, including co-authoring a professional hypnotherapy textbook, peer-reviewed publication and lecturing with the University of Plymouth.
- Ongoing supervision and CPD remain part of my own professional practice.
Who I work with
Supervision for practitioners developing a coherent integrative practice
You do not need to work exactly as I do. In fact, good supervision should help you become more thoughtful and confident in your own practice — not turn you into a copy of your supervisor.
Counsellors who also use hypnosis
You may have trained in hypnotherapy after counselling and want supervision where experiential methods can be discussed without losing the relational and ethical foundations of counselling.
Hypnotherapists with counselling training
You may want more space for formulation, relationship, complexity and longer-term process than technique-led supervision has sometimes offered.
Integrative practitioners finding their own way
You may draw from several approaches and want a supervision relationship that helps you simplify, integrate and use what you know with clearer therapeutic purpose.
A choice of setting
Supervision in Plymouth or online across the UK
Choose the setting that works best for your practice and location. Online supervision also makes it possible to choose a supervisor for professional fit rather than postcode.
In person in Plymouth
Meet with me at my private practice in Plympton, Plymouth. This may suit you if you value a dedicated reflective space away from your own home or workplace.
Online across the UK
Supervision is also available by secure video session, allowing us to work together wherever you are based in the UK.
Common questions
Before you enquire
Can we supervise counselling and hypnotherapy within the same session?
Yes. That is one of the main reasons practitioners choose to work with me. We can think about the whole piece of client work rather than artificially separating the counselling from the hypnosis when both form part of your practice.
Do I need to specialise in OCD or anxiety?
No. OCD, intrusive thoughts and anxiety are important areas of my own clinical work, but they are not a requirement for supervision. The supervision relationship is broader and is centred on your practice, your clients and your professional development.
Do I need to use the LIBERATE Approach™?
No. LIBERATE informs how I think about integration, learning and therapeutic purpose, but supervision is not training in a fixed method and I would not expect you to adopt my framework. We can draw on ideas where they are relevant while keeping your own model and professional identity central.
Can we discuss private-practice issues as well as clinical work?
Yes, where they are relevant to safe and ethical practice. This might include boundaries, workload, endings, communication, policies or decisions that affect client care. Clinical supervision is not business coaching, but private-practice realities do not exist separately from professional practice.
Do you supervise trainees?
I am happy to consider enquiries from counselling or hypnotherapy trainees where my qualifications and way of working meet the requirements of your course and professional body. Please check any specific supervision criteria with your training provider before arranging ongoing supervision.
How much does supervision cost?
Current supervision fees and appointment information are kept on my Fees & FAQs page so that practical details remain up to date in one place.
The next step
Looking for supervision that makes room for both counselling and hypnotherapy?
If this sounds like the kind of supervision relationship you are looking for, get in touch and tell me a little about your training, current practice and what you would like from supervision.