A supportive, reflective space for you and your work
Clinical supervision with Jane Gould
Psychotherapist & Clinical Supervisor
Clinical supervision is an opportunity to step away from the demands of your work and have space to think, reflect and explore what is happening – for the people you work with, within your professional relationships and for you.
I bring over 25 years’ therapeutic experience and almost two decades’ experience of providing clinical supervision, working with people at different stages of their careers and across a wide range of professional settings.
My approach to supervision is Person-Centred and relational, influenced by the work of Carl Rogers and grounded in the belief that the quality of the supervisory relationship really matters.
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For me, good supervision isn’t simply about reviewing cases or checking that professional requirements have been met. It should be a relationship in which you feel safe enough to be curious, uncertain, challenged, honest – and occasionally to say “I haven’t got a clue what to do with this.”
Those conversations are often where some of the most valuable learning happens.
Who I Work With
I provide supervision to qualified and trainee counsellors and psychotherapists, as well as professionals working in roles where relationships, emotional wellbeing, safeguarding or supporting others form an important part of their work.
Over the years, I have supervised professionals working across private practice, voluntary organisations, health and NHS settings, education and other helping professions.
Alongside my therapeutic work, I spent almost 20 years working within the education sector, across special educational needs, primary and secondary school settings. My roles included behaviour support, nurture groups, in-school inclusion centres and school counselling, giving me first-hand experience of the opportunities and challenges involved in supporting children and young people within education.
This work included supporting children and young people experiencing neurodiversity, behaviours that could be challenging to understand and manage, school refusal and anxiety-related non-attendance, as well as working alongside the professionals supporting them.
My own therapeutic experience spans work with children and young people, adults, couples and families, giving me a broad perspective to draw upon within supervision.
I also have extensive experience of work involving trauma, attachment, adoption, neurodiversity, bereavement and loss, abuse, domestic violence, self-harm, suicidal distress, mental health difficulties and complex relationships.
You don’t need to work in exactly the same way as I do. Supervision is about understanding and developing your practice, not turning you into a version of your supervisor.
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My Approach to Supervision
My Person-Centred values are at the heart of the way I supervise.
I aim to develop a relationship in which you can bring the whole of your work – including the things that are going well, the things you’re questioning and the occasions when something hasn’t gone quite as you hoped.
Supervision should provide both support and appropriate challenge. We can explore client work, relationships, boundaries, ethical dilemmas, safeguarding and risk, while also paying attention to what the work evokes in you.
Mistakes, uncertainty and difficult feelings are part of being human and part of professional practice. I believe they are much more useful when they can be explored openly than when someone feels they need to hide them for fear of being judged.
My aim is for supervision to help you become more reflective, more confident in your own professional judgement and increasingly aware of yourself within your work.
What We Might Explore
Supervision will be shaped around you and the work you bring. This might include:
- Client or service-user work and therapeutic relationships
- Complex or challenging situations
- Safeguarding, risk and ethical dilemmas
- Boundaries and professional relationships
- Trauma, attachment and relational dynamics
- Neurodiversity
- Working with children, young people and families
- The emotional impact of your work
- Developing confidence and professional identity
- Changes or challenges within organisations and teams
- Your ongoing learning and development
For therapists, supervision also provides an important part of safe and ethical practice and should meet the requirements of your own professional body, training provider or organisation.
A Relationship That Works for You
Choosing the right supervisor is important.
Qualifications and experience matter, but so does the relationship between us. You need to feel able to talk honestly about your work — particularly the parts you find difficult.
An initial session gives us an opportunity to talk about you, your work, what you need from supervision and how we might work together.
If it feels like a good fit, we can agree a supervision arrangement that meets your individual and professional requirements.