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 the experience of child sexual abuse, teenage grooming, women’s embodied experience of consented but unwanted sex to expectations about motherhood in the orthodox jewish community as well as in other communities. Research also includes single parenthood and 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 psychedelic experience can lead to life changes.

I lecture at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling (NSPC) and provide Clinical & Research Supervision with an interest in qualitative research methods like IPA and Grounded Theory. I am also a Moderator and am part of the Ethics board and stand in as an Internal Examiner