Simpson House Supervision
Simpson House Supervisors are trained in counselling supervision and a variety of counselling approaches. They have extensive experience of working with a range of issues including: substance misuse, sexual abuse, trauma, relationships, learning disabilities, mental health, bereavement / loss, homelessness and criminal justice. See Meet the Team for more details about individual Supervisors. Click here to see our leaflet.
Simpson House Supervisors will:
- Negotiate the working agreement to include the responsibilities and their limits of both supervisor and supervisees in this relationship
- Negotiate and identify the supervisee’s needs and agree focus/agenda for session
- Listen and allow appropriate space for the supervisee to reach discoveries and insights
- Understand non-verbal or unconscious forms of communication e.g. transference issues, the parallel process and be able to use them
- Be aware of ethical issues and be able to work with them
- Acknowledge, accommodate and make use of the supervisee’s emotional reaction to clients
- Acknowledge, accommodate and make use of his/her own emotional reaction to supervisee in service of the client
- Bring the session to an end sensitively and supportively
- Support and challenge appropriately
- Use self-disclosure and examples from his / her own work appropriately and effectively
- Refer to theoretical frames; in particular to models of supervision in analysing and reflecting upon what is happening in the supervision session
- Support the supervisee’s growth in areas of skills, theory(conceptualising problems) and self-awareness in the process
- Give feedback to supervisees
COSCA: ‘Essential skills of a supervisor’
