Mentoring & Reflective Supervision
A space to pause, reflect, and deepen your practice
Working with people can be rewarding, challenging, and sometimes difficult to make sense of on your own.
Reflective supervision and mentoring offer a space to step back from the day-to-day work, explore what is arising for you and the people you work with, and consider your practice with curiosity and compassion.
Compassionate Inquiry is the cornerstone of my work with practitioners, and I support CI practitioners, trainees, coaches, and therapists who are interested in bringing CI principles into their practice.
Who I work with
My mentoring and reflective supervision are particularly suited to:
Compassionate Inquiry practitioners
A space to reflect on your practice, explore what you're noticing, and deepen your understanding of the CI approach.
CI trainees
Support as you develop your practice, find your voice, and explore the questions that naturally arise as you learn.
Coaches and other helping professionals
For those working closely with people and wanting somewhere to reflect on their practice and the relationships they develop.
Therapists
For practitioners who may not be CI-trained but are curious about Compassionate Inquiry and would like to explore how its principles might complement their existing practice.
Reflective Supervision
Reflective supervision is a space to step out of the immediacy of your work and look at what's happening with fresh eyes.
You might bring a particular client or coaching relationship, something that happened in a session, a professional dilemma, or simply something about your work that isn't quite sitting right.
Together, we can slow things down and become curious about what you're noticing, in the person you're working with, in the therapeutic relationship, and in yourself.
Sometimes the most useful question isn't “What should I do?” but “What's happening here?”
This isn't clinical supervision. It is a reflective space to support your awareness, your practice, and your ongoing development as a practitioner.
Mentoring
Mentoring offers a different kind of space, one focused on your development, confidence and direction as a practitioner.
You might be finding your feet, developing an established practice, working through something that feels challenging, or wanting to deepen the way you work with people.
For therapists who are curious about Compassionate Inquiry, mentoring can also provide an opportunity to explore the approach and consider how its principles might complement the way you already practise.
There doesn't need to be a fixed agenda. We can start with what you're wondering about and see where the conversation takes us.
What might you bring?
You might want somewhere to:
- Reflect on a particular client, coaching relationship, or session
- Explore something that felt difficult, unexpected, or unresolved
- Think about your therapeutic or coaching presence
- Notice your own responses and what they may be telling you
- Explore boundaries, relationships, and the complexities of working with people
- Develop your confidence and trust your own judgement
- Deepen your understanding of Compassionate Inquiry
- Consider how CI principles might fit alongside your existing practice
A little about my perspective
My work with practitioners is informed by my own experience as a therapist, my training in Compassionate Inquiry and my wider therapeutic training.
I have worked with people from many different backgrounds and professional worlds, and I've learned that there is rarely a simple answer when we're working with another human being.
Compassionate Inquiry has become the cornerstone of my own practice. It has changed the way I listen, the questions I ask and the way I understand the relationship between our experiences, our patterns and the ways we learn to show up in the world.
Alongside my therapeutic training, I completed supervision training developed within the Compassionate Inquiry programme with Lois Ehrman, followed by CI Mentorship training. These experiences have shaped the way I support practitioners to reflect on their work, deepen their practice, and develop their understanding of Compassionate Inquiry.
I know that being the person who holds space for others can sometimes leave little space to reflect on ourselves. I value having somewhere practitioners can bring the questions, uncertainties, and complexities of the work without needing to have them figured out first.
How we can work together
Reflective supervision and mentoring are available online and in person.
Sessions can be arranged as ongoing support or as a more focused series of sessions, depending on what you need.
We can talk about what you're looking for during an initial conversation and decide together whether the space feels right for you.
- Sessions
- 1 Hour
- Fees
- £90
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to be trained in Compassionate Inquiry?
No. While CI practitioners and trainees are an important part of my work, I also work with therapists, psychologists and coaches who are interested in exploring CI and how it might complement their existing practice.
Is this clinical supervision?
No. I offer reflective supervision rather than clinical supervision. The focus is on reflection, awareness, professional development, and the experience of working with people.
Do I need to know exactly what I want from mentoring?
Not at all. You can come with a question, a situation you're thinking about, or simply a sense that you'd like some space to reflect. We can work out together what would be most useful.
Is everything confidential?
Our conversations are treated as confidential, and I will respect your privacy throughout our work together.
As with any professional relationship, there are some circumstances where confidentiality may need to be limited, for example, where there is a serious concern about someone's safety, or where disclosure is required by law or relevant professional or safeguarding requirements.
We can talk through confidentiality and any questions you have about it when we begin working together.
A space to think things through
You don't have to work everything out on your own.
If you're looking for reflective supervision or mentoring, we can begin with a free 15-minute conversation to talk about what you're looking for and see whether working together feels like a good fit.