CLINICAL AND RESEARCH SUPERVISION
Clinical Supervision
As a clinician I know from first hand experience how valuable it is to be able to reflect on my work with a fellow practitioner. So, while it is a requirement that all psychologists, counsellors and therapists have regular and ongoing supervision (Ethical Framework 2010), it is incredibly helpful and often mind-opening to be able to talk to another professional about anything that arises within the therapeutic space.
At the forefront of my supervisory practice is the desire to provide a safe space to discuss a range of issues regarding the therapeutic work in the most open and honest way and to give guidance towards gaining greater insight into the work through listening and engaging with an attentive ear, open heart and inquisitive mind.
I subscribe to the view that it is the supervisor’s goal: “to do whatever seems most likely to send the other person away more aware, more informed, skilled and encouraged than (s)he was when (s)he came in.” (Houston 1990, p12).
As a clinical supervisor, I provide one-to-one, as well as group supervision. I am on the Register for Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors (RAPPS) and practice from an existential-phenomenological perspective.
Research Supervision
Having a huge interest in research and knowledge, I love the opportunity to provide research supervision to help and guide students on their academic journey.
Currently my research supervisees explore an array of human experience, ranging from women’s embodied experience of consented but unwanted sex to the experience of teenage grooming and an exploration of child sexual abuse.
The experience of being a woman is further explored in studies that investigate ambivalence towards becoming a mother and others that look at expectations about motherhood in various communities, while another explores the experience of solo motherhood.
Research also includes an inquiry on how porn actors in the ethical porn industry experience their relational world.
Outside of the relational realm I also support students who explore the influence of social media, including how mental health disorders are understood on social media platforms like TikTok and the experience of cyberbullying.
Other research includes the experience of meaning for formerly incarcerated individuals, how burn out affects gay men and how existential themes of meaning emerge from psychedelic retreats as well as how ayashuasca can lead to transformative life changes.
I lecture at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling (NSPC) on their doctorate course and provide Clinical & Research Supervision with an interest in qualitative research methods like IPA, Heuristics and Constructivist Grounded Theory. I am also a Moderator and am part of the Ethics board and stand in as an Internal Examiner