Supervision & Group Therapy
Two or more people form a ‘supervisory alliance’ with shared objectives about how to work together constructively to provide a safe, ethical and competent service to clients
Good Practice in Action 054: Introduction to Supervision in the counselling professions, BACP
I hope to offer a warm, supportive environment for you to explore your work with me. I can also be challenging of the blind spots that we all have in our work, of what is ours and what is our client’s, but in a gentle way, to help us to see transference/counter-transference between the client/supervisee/supervisor. Ultimately, our goal is to make sure that we are looking after our clients’ interests in the best way possible.
If you are interested in finding out more about having supervision with me, please get in touch. I am also interested in offering supervision for groups. I charge £70 per hour for individual supervision.
I mainly use Hawkins and Shohet’s Seven-Eyed Model and Inskipp & Proctor’s Cyclical Model, but I also like Norman Kagan’s Interpersonal Process Recall and Petruska Clarkson’s 5 Relational Levels.
GROUP THERAPY
TBC Contact me for details.
Summary of main supervision models:
Inskipp & Proctor’s model focuses on the Normative, Formative, Restorative Tasks.
| Task | Areas covered in this task | Goals for the Practitioner: |
| Normative | Ethics, Standards, Safeguards, Contracting, Boundaries | Ethical |
| Formative | Educative, Practice Development, Sharing Ideas, Process | Competence |
| Restorative | Laughter, fun, play, creativity, space to explore | Confidence and Creativity |
Hawkins and Shohet’s Seven-Eyed Model
Explores seven areas, including:
| Seven Eyes | Detailed explanation | |
| 1 | Client | What and how they present |
| 2 | Therapist/supervisee | Exploration of the strategies and interventions used by the supervisee |
| 3 | Client-Therapist relationship | The relationship between the client and the supervisee, including transference |
| 4 | Supervisee | Therapist’s thoughts, feelings, reactions, including countertransference |
| 5 | Supervisor-therapist relationship | What’s happening between them |
| 6 | Supervisor’s reflections | The supervisor focusing on their own process, including fantasy supervisor/client relationship |
| 7 | Wider systemic context | Focus on the wider contexts in which the work happens; the client, therapist or supervisor’s context, the organisational context of any member, the wider world. |
Qualifications:
Level 7 Supervision certificate with Kathy Raffles Supervision Training in Bridgwater 2025.
Foundation Certificate in Group Analysis, via Institute of Group Analysis, Turvey. 2023
References:
- Inskipp & Proctor: Becoming a Supervisor (1995)
- Hawkins & Shohet: Supervision in the Helping Professions (2006)
- Norman Kagan: Interpersonal process recall: A method of influencing human interaction (1976)
- Petruska Clarkson: The Therapeutic Relationship (2003)
Sally Davies
MBACP (Accredited)
PGDip Integrative Counselling
