Counselling Supervision

Supervision For Counsellors & Psychotherapists

Supportive, collaborative and neurodiversity-affirming supervision

I offer online clinical supervision for trainee and qualified counsellors, psychotherapists and other professionals working therapeutically with adults.

My approach is warm, collaborative and thoughtful. I want supervision to be somewhere you can talk openly about your work – including the clients you feel confident with, the ones who leave you wondering what to do next, ethical dilemmas, mistakes, uncertainty and the emotional impact of being a therapist.

Supervision with me is not about being told how to practise. It is a space to think together, develop your clinical confidence and maintain safe, ethical and sustainable practice.

How I work as a supervisor

I work integratively and relationally, adapting supervision to your experience, way of working and stage of professional development.

We might use supervision to explore client work, therapeutic relationships, risk and safeguarding, boundaries, ethical dilemmas, difference and diversity, private practice, professional development or simply the impact the work is having on you.

I draw on established supervision frameworks, including Hawkins and Shohet's Seven-Eyed Model, Proctor's model and developmental approaches, but I don't believe supervision needs to feel overly theoretical. Models are there to help us think – not to dominate the conversation.

I aim to create a relationship where you can be honest when something hasn't gone to plan, ask questions without feeling judged and bring the parts of the work that feel complicated or uncomfortable.

Neurodiversity-Affirming Clinical Supervision

I have a particular interest in supervising therapists who work with autistic, ADHD, AuDHD and other neurodivergent clients.

You do not need to be neurodivergent yourself to work with me.

As a neurodivergent therapist and supervisor, I bring both professional knowledge and lived experience to this area of my work. We can think together about how neurodivergence may affect communication, sensory experience, emotional regulation, executive functioning, relationships, masking, burnout and the therapeutic process.

For neurodivergent therapists, supervision can also be a place to explore your own needs as a practitioner – including workload, energy, sensory needs, boundaries, organisation, masking and creating a way of working that is sustainable for you.

The aim isn't to make neurodivergent clients or therapists fit neurotypical expectations. It is to understand the person in context and consider what adjustments, approaches and ways of working might genuinely help.

Trauma-Informed Supervision

My work is also trauma-informed. This means paying attention not only to what is happening in the clinical work, but to safety, relationships, power, choice, pacing and the impact that difficult therapeutic work can have on us as practitioners.

What you can bring to supervision

There doesn't need to be a crisis or a particularly difficult client for something to be worth bringing.

Supervision might include:

client work and therapeutic relationships
neurodivergence and adapting therapy
trauma and complex presentations
risk, safeguarding and ethical dilemmas
boundaries and contracting
countertransference and your responses to clients
confidence and professional identity
private practice issues
workload, burnout and sustainable practice
accreditation and professional development.

And sometimes supervision is simply a place to say, "I'm not quite sure what's happening here," and have another experienced practitioner help you think it through.

My Experience

I bring more than 14 years' experience of therapeutic work with adults, alongside experience in clinical supervision, counselling education, lecturing, CPCAB moderation at Levels 2–6 and hospice bereavement leadership.

I am a BACP Accredited Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor and have Master's-level research experience in neurodiversity and therapy.

I supervise both trainee and qualified practitioners and have supported supervisees through the BACP accreditation process.

If you require a supervision or accreditation report, I am happy to discuss this with you. Reports are charged separately to reflect the time required to prepare them (usually 3 hours work).

Supervision Fees

I offer 60-minute and 90-minute online supervision appointments, depending on your professional requirements and preferred way of working.

I also offer a concessionary rate for counselling students.

60 minutes: £90
90 minutes: £135
Student rate: £60 per hour

Supervision fees are payable 24 hours before the appointment.

Interested in working together?

Finding the right supervisor matters. You need someone you can think aloud with, disagree with, ask difficult questions of and be honest with when things haven't gone quite as you hoped.

If you're looking for supervision and would like to see whether we might work well together, you're welcome to get in touch.

Contact Emma
emmawestoncounselling@proton.me

Emma Weston Online Neurodiversity Affirmative Therapy & Supervision