15/08/2026
Last week I posted about taking on some new supervisees, so I thought I’d share a little more about my professional background, training and lived experience and, more importantly, how these influence the supervisor I am.
Academic qualifications:
🎓 Certificate in Counselling Skills
🎓 Diploma in Ther**eutic Counselling — Humanistic, Psychodynamic, CBT, Transactional Analysis & Inner Child approaches
🎓 Practitioner’s Diploma in CBT
🎓 Certificate in Clinical Supervision
🎓 Certificate in Autism
🎓 Certificate in Working with Self-Harm & Su***de
I’ve also completed additional training in Narcissistic Abuse, Trauma Awareness, Parts Work, Safeguarding, Couples Therapy, Working with Travelling Communities and lots more that I genuinely can’t remember off the top of my head 🤦♀️😂.
Alongside counselling and supervision, I teach the first three counselling qualifications listed above and have written and delivered CPD workshops around domestic abuse, narcissistic abuse, anxiety and other mental health conditions.
Domestic abuse is an area particularly close to me, both professionally and personally.
I have worked as a counsellor within a domestic abuse centre, women’s refuge and r**e crisis centre, alongside undertaking specialist training including the Freedom Programme and Recovery Toolkit.
I also bring lived experience of domestic abuse and the systems that can surround it, including applying for Non-Molestation Orders and navigating criminal and family court processes.
More recently, I’ve also been navigating peri-menopause and receiving a late ADHD diagnosis. Both have given me a much deeper understanding of how our capacity, confidence, identity and even our understanding of ourselves can change, including when we’re the ones who are usually supporting everybody else!
I’m still learning about myself too. Lived experience doesn’t make us experts in somebody else’s experience, but I do think it can bring another level of understanding, curiosity and empathy.
In terms of experience:
💙 I’ve run my own private counselling practice for 7 years
💙 I’ve been a counselling tutor for 6 years
💙 I’ve been a Clinical Supervisor for 2 years
But ultimately, none of us are just our qualifications.
For me, good supervision isn’t about sitting opposite someone who has all the answers. It’s about having somewhere you can bring the messy bits too 💙.
The client you can’t stop thinking about, the session you wish you’d handled differently, the personal stuff that might be affecting your capacity, the self-doubt, imposter syndrome, the mistakes, the successes and the moments where you genuinely don’t know what to do next.
And I also really like to laugh with my supervisees. Supervision can involve some incredibly difficult and serious work, but I don’t believe that means the supervision room always has to feel serious. Sometimes we reflect deeply, sometimes we challenge things, sometimes we swear, and sometimes we laugh unapologetically.
I’m human. I’m authentic. I definitely don’t have all the answers and I’m probably a little bit crazy at times 🤦♀️ but that’s me and I don’t think I’d want to supervise from behind some polished, professional version of myself that isn’t real.
I want my supervisees to feel they can be human too.
I want you to be able to say “I’m struggling with this”, “I think I got this wrong” or even “I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing here” without worrying that I’m going to judge you.
Of course I’ll challenge you when needed, that’s part of good supervision but I want that challenge to come from a place of support, curiosity and helping you grow.
Because despite all of the qualifications and experience above, I’m still learning too. I think we all should be. 💙
I currently have a small number of supervision spaces available, both face-to-face and online, so if you’re looking for a supervisor and think we might be a good fit, feel free to get in touch for a chat.
