Supervision

Are you thinking about counselling online?

And would you like a supervisor to help support you in that process? If you are, I would love the opportunity to be part of your journey!

Supervision has been a critical part in fulfilling my psychotherapeutic practice and feeling more confident in myself. With 20 years of training and experience as a person-centered therapist, I moved to Bangkok, Thailand in 2010 and since then have received all my supervision online. I set up a very successful private practice here working with other economic migrants from a multitude of different cultures, ethnicities and orientations that continued during Covid when the situation required a transition online.

Although this was a decision created through necessity and circumstance, allowing me to continue to provide my clients with support during the pandemic, I also realised that working online gave me much more than I ever expected it would. As such, in 2021 I made the permanent decision to transition my entire practice online. This was no longer about necessity, but about the opportunity to create a much-improved work/life balance for myself and my clients, alongside the flexibility of being able to continue the work when they left Thailand to live elsewhere.

And would you like a supervisor to help support you in that process? If you are, I would love the opportunity to be part of your journey!

Supervision has been a critical part in fulfilling my psychotherapeutic practice and feeling more confident in myself. With 20 years of training and experience as a person-centered therapist, I moved to Bangkok, Thailand in 2010 and since then have received all my supervision online. I set up a very successful private practice here working with other economic migrants from a multitude of different cultures, ethnicities and orientations that continued during Covid when the situation required a transition online.

Now, I have clients all over the world and when they move, they don’t even have to consider the impact of finding a new therapist and our therapeutic work continues without being disrupted in the process. In my opinion, this is the most important and successful part of working online. As well as providing access to therapy for people who are unable to meet someone in person as a result of personal circumstances or life choices. Therapy instantly becomes more accessible to everyone, wherever they are.

So, hopefully you can see in this ‘short’ introduction about myself that I am very passionate about online therapy, collaboration and focusing on the client’s needs at all times. My therapeutic practice includes, amongst others, drawing on the theories of Rodgers, Gestalt, Jung, Freud et al., whilst also focusing on Attachment, CBT/REBT, Inner Child, Grief/Loss working with both adults and couples. I completed an MSc in Psychology in 2023 and have undertaken online-specific counselling and supervision training.

As a supervisor, I would like us to meet without any initial cost or obligation to allow you the opportunity to determine if I’m the right person to support you in your counselling practice going forward. I appreciate that supervision is a long-term financial commitment and that it’s important that you find a safe, non-judgmental space to continue to grow as an ethical counsellor for yourself and your clients.

The initial consultation will be 1-hour and if you’d like to meet with me and discuss supervision further, please contact me here and I’ll be in touch with you. I look forward to meeting you soon.

Although this was a decision created through necessity and circumstance, allowing me to continue to provide my clients with support during the pandemic, I also realised that working online gave me much more than I ever expected it would. As such, in 2021 I made the permanent decision to transition my entire practice online. This was no longer about necessity, but about the opportunity to create a much-improved work/life balance for myself and my clients, alongside the flexibility of being able to continue the work when they left Thailand to live elsewhere.

Now, I have clients all over the world and when they move, they don’t even have to consider the impact of finding a new therapist and our therapeutic work continues without being disrupted in the process. In my opinion, this is the most important and successful part of working online. As well as providing access to therapy for people who are unable to meet someone in person as a result of personal circumstances or life choices. Therapy instantly becomes more accessible to everyone, wherever they are.

So, hopefully you can see in this ‘short’ introduction about myself that I am very passionate about online therapy, collaboration and focusing on the client’s needs at all times. My therapeutic practice includes, amongst others, drawing on the theories of Rodgers, Gestalt, Jung, Freud et al., whilst also focusing on Attachment, CBT/REBT, Inner Child, Grief/Loss working with both adults and couples. I completed an MSc in Psychology in 2023 and have undertaken online-specific counselling and supervision training.

As a supervisor, I would like us to meet without any initial cost or obligation to allow you the opportunity to determine if I’m the right person to support you in your counselling practice going forward. I appreciate that supervision is a long-term financial commitment and that it’s important that you find a safe, non-judgmental space to continue to grow as an ethical counsellor for yourself and your clients.

The initial consultation will be 1-hour and if you’d like to meet with me and discuss supervision further, please contact me here and I’ll be in touch with you. I look forward to meeting you soon.

About me as a Supervisor

I’ve always really benefited from regular supervision, both professionally and personally, and being able to offer a collaborative, non-judgemental space for other therapists is at the very core of who I want to be as a supervisor.

In the UK it is an ethical requirement for all Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Psychologists in private or clinical practice to have regular supervision as part of maintaining accreditation with the regulatory organisation to which you belong, with the BACP recommending that supervision takes place on a monthly basis.

However, as a therapist working online and/or on an international platform, the requirements for supervision are dependent on the requirements stipulated within your country of origin and/or therapeutic training. As such, I adhere to the ethical requirements of the UK and reflect my supervision support with specific reference to the NCPS alongside the requirements of your own country/licensing/accreditation conditions.

I’ve always really benefited from regular supervision, both professionally and personally, and being able to offer a collaborative, non-judgemental space for other therapists is at the very core of who I want to be as a supervisor.

In the UK it is an ethical requirement for all Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Psychologists in private or clinical practice to have regular supervision as part of maintaining accreditation with the regulatory organisation to which you belong, with the BACP recommending that supervision takes place on a monthly basis.

My intention for supervision is to support you and your clients within a fully confidential space that will always be explorative, with the intention of inquiring to understand and not to catch you out or tell you that you are doing something wrong. Your client’s safety is paramount, but not at the expense of your well-being or professional ability.

Together we will work through any issues as they arise and you can be assured that I will always give you my honest and professional opinion at all times. As well as giving you the benefit of my own personal experience, I will also give you any tools, theories and strategies to support you and your client in achieving their therapeutic goal.

I appreciate honesty and I want supervision to be a safe place for discussion and collaboration if there’s something either of us disagree with or don’t understand. I would always prefer to be challenged rather than you being left feeling unable to say what you need if you are not in agreement with anything that is suggested or is uncomfortable for you.

I really want you to enjoy supervision and look forward to our sessions together, rather than it being something that you think you “should do”. Our relationship is incredibly important to me and from the moment we meet I am working for you and alongside you. You are the expert of your clients and my supervision role is to offer different perspectives and explore the options that best suit your clients’ needs and issues as they arise.

I also want you to feel that you can bring anything to supervision, it doesn’t just have to be client work that’s discussed. It can also be a place to explore your own personal circumstances as well as professional and business development or anything else that you feel is relevant to your therapeutic practice that can enhance my understanding of what you need from me.

I appreciate that finding the right person to support you is critical to the success of your therapeutic work and if you’d like to meet with me to discuss this further and without obligation, please contact me.

However, as a therapist working online and/or on an international platform, the requirements for supervision are dependent on the requirements stipulated within your country of origin and/or therapeutic training. As such, I adhere to the ethical requirements of the UK and reflect my supervision support with specific reference to the NCPS alongside the requirements of your own country/licensing/accreditation conditions.

My intention for supervision is to support you and your clients within a fully confidential space that will always be explorative, with the intention of inquiring to understand and not to catch you out or tell you that you are doing something wrong. Your client’s safety is paramount, but not at the expense of your well-being or professional ability.

Together we will work through any issues as they arise and you can be assured that I will always give you my honest and professional opinion at all times. As well as giving you the benefit of my own personal experience, I will also give you any tools, theories and strategies to support you and your client in achieving their therapeutic goal.

I appreciate honesty and I want supervision to be a safe place for discussion and collaboration if there’s something either of us disagree with or don’t understand. I would always prefer to be challenged rather than you being left feeling unable to say what you need if you are not in agreement with anything that is suggested or is uncomfortable for you.

I really want you to enjoy supervision and look forward to our sessions together, rather than it being something that you think you “should do”. Our relationship is incredibly important to me and from the moment we meet I am working for you and alongside you. You are the expert of your clients and my supervision role is to offer different perspectives and explore the options that best suit your clients’ needs and issues as they arise.

I also want you to feel that you can bring anything to supervision, it doesn’t just have to be client work that’s discussed. It can also be a place to explore your own personal circumstances as well as professional and business development or anything else that you feel is relevant to your therapeutic practice that can enhance my understanding of what you need from me.

I appreciate that finding the right person to support you is critical to the success of your therapeutic work and if you’d like to meet with me to discuss this further and without obligation, please contact me.

About me

I moved from the UK to Bangkok in 2010, set up my therapeutic practice in 2012 and have since made Thailand my permanent home. I took the less traditional route into counselling, changing my career in my 30’s and studying Psychology in my 40’s. Embarking on my 50’s, my studies have continued and I have transitioned into Supervision. Enquiring psychological thought processes and emotional responses are at the very core of my work, my research studies and supporting others continues to motivate me every single day.

My Supervision Journey

Since 2012 I have only ever received online supervision.

Because supervision is long-term work and I was never expecting Thailand to become my permanent home, my first supervisor was chosen because she lived in the same county that I was originally from in the UK. I had started my private practice in Bangkok and I wanted to make sure I had contact with an experienced psychotherapist to support me with client work, ensure I was maintaining UK legal and ethical boundaries as well helping me grow personally and professionally with my practice. The only reason we no longer work together is because my supervisor retired from counselling and supervision in 2021.

My supervisor and I didn’t know anything about what it meant to work online. It was 2012 and counselling and supervision was predominantly and very traditionally face-to-face, but we worked through it together and finally met on Skype. My supervisor, also called Sam, was a very experienced Gestalt therapist and a senior member of the BACP. To say I was intimidated as a newly qualified therapist was an understatement, but I really appreciated this opportunity to work with someone with so much experience from what felt like a very isolating place in Bangkok, especially from a therapeutic/peer supervision perspective.

Since 2012 I have only ever received online supervision.

Because supervision is long-term work and I was never expecting Thailand to become my permanent home, my first supervisor was chosen because she lived in the same county that I was originally from in the UK. I had started my private practice in Bangkok and I wanted to make sure I had contact with an experienced psychotherapist to support me with client work, ensure I was maintaining UK legal and ethical boundaries as well helping me grow personally and professionally with my practice. The only reason we no longer work together is because my supervisor retired from counselling and supervision in 2021.

Knowing that I was meeting with Sam regularly, and had that time to specifically focus on my clients, was very reassuring and essential to the success of myself and my work with my clients. Although working internationally, as a member of the NCPS I was especially keen to make sure that my practice, alongside the development of myself as a psychotherapist, was continually in-line with UK legal requirements. Together, Sam and I made sure that we were both following the ethical guidelines set out by the BACP and NCPS, continually referring to these and any amendments made, specifically in regards to CPD, any issues that would arise within my work and the requirements of supervision. As a result, Sam really helped me to develop my skills as a therapist and helped me to understand what type of therapist I wanted to be.

Supervision support during COVID-19 was invaluable as we navigated the uncertainty of a global pandemic on ourselves, our clients and our therapeutic work. The necessity to transition online during this time was encouraged, but always with the expectation that it was temporary as face-to-face work was preferred and considered the most successful therapeutic option. However, as we were coming towards the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, I was experiencing the positive effects of working online and Sam announced her plan for retirement. We worked towards a very successful ending, as appropriate for all therapeutic work, but sadly this very important supervision relationship ended.

I will be forever grateful to Sam and the support she gave me when I needed it most and still to this day, I use the techniques and knowledge she very graciously transferred to me during all those hours of supervision. Finding a new supervisor felt very daunting, but it gave me the opportunity to find a supervisor with experience of working outside of the UK as well as working specifically online. I didn’t know where to start, but in my online search I discovered ACTO and was lucky to be connected with my current supervisor, Susan.

As a British expat, Susan was working between the UK and the Middle East and her practice was entirely online. Understanding the challenges of working internationally, Susan fully appreciates how different the work is in comparison to the UK, which in return helps me feel seen, validated and appropriately challenged when needed.

It was in supervision sessions with Susan where I found the courage to transition my entire face-to-face counselling practice online, start working with couple clients online and discussed whether or not I was ready to become a supervisor myself. Susan supported me at every stage and helped me to select the right courses to be able to achieve each milestone from Bangkok whilst still maintaining the legal and ethical requirements of UK counsellors and supervisors.

I’m very grateful that I have a supervisor with whom I really enjoy meeting for supervision and can discuss all aspects of my therapeutic and supervision development. Working in collaboration with Susan gives me increased confidence that not only am I well supported, but so are my supervisee’s and their clients. Working with me also means that you have my supervisors support, who also has a supervisor who is supervised, to provide an ever-expanding team of experienced therapists and supervisors working together to ensure that wherever therapy takes place in the world, it is continually focused on safe and ethical practice.

Hopefully this reflection of my own personal journey of supervision offers you the opportunity to gain some understanding of me as a person, therapist, supervisor and my passion for supervision. I’d love to have the opportunity to support you and your therapeutic journey, so if you’d like to meet with me to discuss the options of us working together, please contact me and I would be very happy to arrange a convenient time for us to talk in more depth.

My supervisor and I didn’t know anything about what it meant to work online. It was 2012 and counselling and supervision was predominantly and very traditionally face-to-face, but we worked through it together and finally met on Skype. My supervisor, also called Sam, was a very experienced Gestalt therapist and a senior member of the BACP. To say I was intimidated as a newly qualified therapist was an understatement, but I really appreciated this opportunity to work with someone with so much experience from what felt like a very isolating place in Bangkok, especially from a therapeutic/peer supervision perspective.

Knowing that I was meeting with Sam regularly, and had that time to specifically focus on my clients, was very reassuring and essential to the success of myself and my work with my clients. Although working internationally, as a member of the NCPS I was especially keen to make sure that my practice, alongside the development of myself as a psychotherapist, was continually in-line with UK legal requirements. Together, Sam and I made sure that we were both following the ethical guidelines set out by the BACP and NCPS, continually referring to these and any amendments made, specifically in regards to CPD, any issues that would arise within my work and the requirements of supervision. As a result, Sam really helped me to develop my skills as a therapist and helped me to understand what type of therapist I wanted to be.

Supervision support during COVID-19 was invaluable as we navigated the uncertainty of a global pandemic on ourselves, our clients and our therapeutic work. The necessity to transition online during this time was encouraged, but always with the expectation that it was temporary as face-to-face work was preferred and considered the most successful therapeutic option. However, as we were coming towards the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, I was experiencing the positive effects of working online and Sam announced her plan for retirement. We worked towards a very successful ending, as appropriate for all therapeutic work, but sadly this very important supervision relationship ended.

I will be forever grateful to Sam and the support she gave me when I needed it most and still to this day, I use the techniques and knowledge she very graciously transferred to me during all those hours of supervision. Finding a new supervisor felt very daunting, but it gave me the opportunity to find a supervisor with experience of working outside of the UK as well as working specifically online. I didn’t know where to start, but in my online search I discovered ACTO and was lucky to be connected with my current supervisor, Susan.

As a British expat, Susan was working between the UK and the Middle East and her practice was entirely online. Understanding the challenges of working internationally, Susan fully appreciates how different the work is in comparison to the UK, which in return helps me feel seen, validated and appropriately challenged when needed.

It was in supervision sessions with Susan where I found the courage to transition my entire face-to-face counselling practice online, start working with couple clients online and discussed whether or not I was ready to become a supervisor myself. Susan supported me at every stage and helped me to select the right courses to be able to achieve each milestone from Bangkok whilst still maintaining the legal and ethical requirements of UK counsellors and supervisors.

I’m very grateful that I have a supervisor with whom I really enjoy meeting for supervision and can discuss all aspects of my therapeutic and supervision development. Working in collaboration with Susan gives me increased confidence that not only am I well supported, but so are my supervisee’s and their clients. Working with me also means that you have my supervisors support, who also has a supervisor who is supervised, to provide an ever-expanding team of experienced therapists and supervisors working together to ensure that wherever therapy takes place in the world, it is continually focused on safe and ethical practice.

Hopefully this reflection of my own personal journey of supervision offers you the opportunity to gain some understanding of me as a person, therapist, supervisor and my passion for supervision. I’d love to have the opportunity to support you and your therapeutic journey, so if you’d like to meet with me to discuss the options of us working together, please contact me and I would be very happy to arrange a convenient time for us to talk in more depth.