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 Click here for more details about individual Supervisors.
Simpson House Supervisors will:
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Negotiate the working agreement to include the responsibilities and their limits of both supervisor and supervisees in this relationship
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Negotiate and identify the supervisee’s needs and agree focus/agenda for session
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Listen and allow appropriate space for the supervisee to reach discoveries and insights
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Understand non-verbal or unconscious forms of communication e.g. transference issues, the parallel process and be able to use them
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Be aware of ethical issues and be able to work with them
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Acknowledge, accommodate and make use of the supervisee’s emotional reaction to clients
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Acknowledge, accommodate and make use of his/her own emotional reaction to supervisee in service of the client
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Bring the session to an end sensitively and supportively
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Support and challenge appropriately
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Use self-disclosure and examples from his / her own work appropriately and effectively
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Refer to theoretical frames; in particular to models of supervision in analysing and reflecting upon what is happening in the supervision session
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Support the supervisee’s growth in areas of skills, theory(conceptualising problems) and self-awareness in the process
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Give feedback to supervisees
