
Clinical Supervision & Coaching
35+ years’ experience across mental health, wellbeing & community services
Trauma-informed, independent, and reflective support
Brighton & Hove | Online across the UK
Clinical Supervision
Clinical supervision is offered through a structured framework, informed by established reflective supervision models, and may include elements of reflective practice and professional development coaching. This work can be self-funded, but is often commissioned by employers or organisations, and is centred on wellbeing, ethical practice, and sustainable working, rather than training or performance management.
Clinical Supervision, Reflective Practice & Workplace Coaching
Clinical supervision, reflective practice and workplace coaching provide confidential, supportive and structured spaces to think about work, wellbeing and professional challenges. They create time to pause, reflect and make sense of experience, particularly within complex, demanding or emotionally impactful roles.
This work draws on established clinical supervision, reflective practice and coaching frameworks, thoughtfully adapted for complex, non-therapy contexts, including leadership and management, advocacy, mental health, social justice, identity-informed, lived-experience and community-based roles.
Clinical supervision attends not only to what you do, but also to how the work affects you. It supports reflection on practice, emotional impact and professional identity, helping sustain clarity, confidence and wellbeing over time. Alongside exploring challenges, it also creates space to recognise your growth, strengths and the impact of your work.
Reflection may also include attention to cognitive, emotional, and physical or instinctive responses (sometimes described as embodied or somatic awareness), where this supports deeper understanding, insight, and informed decision-making.
Clinical supervision, reflective practice and workplace coaching are commonly accessed by practitioners, leaders and service providers working across mental health, wellbeing and community contexts. They can be particularly valuable for people in specialist, lived-experience, identity-informed, independent or otherwise isolated roles, and for those carrying responsibility, complexity or emotional labour within their work.
Sessions are guided by your priorities and may support you to:
- reflect on practice, experiences, challenges, and achievements
- make sense of emotional and relational impact, including pressure, vicarious trauma, role isolation, and responsibility
- develop clarity about support needs, boundaries, workload, and expectations
- explore decision-making, ethical dilemmas, and uncertainty with greater confidence
- strengthen communication, professional relationships, and ways of working
- reconnect with motivation, values, and professional identity
- support work–life balance and build sustainable wellbeing over time
My approach is relational and experience-informed, drawing on established clinical supervision, reflective practice and coaching frameworks, alongside mindfulness and cognitive behavioural approaches (CBT), and grounded in trauma-informed and person-centred values. Sessions are collaborative, respectful and non-judgemental, supporting ethical, reflective and psychologically safe practice.
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Reflective Practice
Reflective practice may be the most helpful approach where the primary need is space to think, make sense of experience and develop insight, and consider possible ways forward.
Reflective practice offers a structured, confidential space to pause and explore real situations, interactions, and decisions. It is led by you and is not training, assessment, or instruction. Instead, it supports thoughtful exploration of what happened, how it felt, what influenced your responses, and what may be possible going forward.
This work draws on an integrative reflective approach, supporting you to move gently from experience, through reflection and understanding, towards informed and considered action.
This approach can be particularly helpful for:
- navigating complexity, change, or uncertainty
- exploring relationships, boundaries, and professional dynamics
- noticing emotional responses, values, and assumptions that influence practice
- strengthening reflective capacity, clarity, and confidence over time
Reflective practice is most often offered one-to-one, with the option of small group or team-based work where helpful.
My role is to offer space, curiosity, reflection, and thoughtful challenge, rather than answers or direction. The focus is on supporting you to develop your own understanding, judgement, and way forward.
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Workplace Coaching
Workplace coaching may be particularly helpful where you want focused support to strengthen confidence, develop clarity and navigate your role or working life.
Workplace coaching recognises that professional development, wellbeing and effectiveness are closely connected. It draws on established coaching approaches and experience-informed mentoring to support purposeful, sustainable development rather than performance management.
It may be particularly helpful where people are:
- clarifying role expectations, responsibilities, and professional identity
- strengthening judgement and confidence in new, specialist, or demanding roles
- navigating complexity, uncertainty, or change
- exploring how self-doubt or imposter feelings affect confidence or risk-taking
- translating reflection into clear, realistic short- and longer-term goals
- understanding and addressing challenges with organisation, prioritisation, time awareness, decision-making, or task initiation where these are affecting confidence, workload, or performance
Workplace coaching is not line management or performance correction. It provides a confidential, person-centred space to support professional development, wellbeing, ethical decision-making and sustainable ways of working.
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Clinical supervision, reflective practice and workplace coaching can also be offered to teams and groups. For more information, please see my Teams & Groups page.
People often bring areas of specialist interest, identity or lived experience into clinical supervision, reflective practice and workplace coaching, including neurodivergence, trauma, marginalisation, ageing and emotionally demanding or complex areas of work. These themes also inform my wider Coaching and Experience-Informed Work
Access to Work
If you are looking for workplace coaching and are considering applying for Access to Work, are currently applying or already have coaching approved, I can provide confidential, person-centred support for neurodivergent people and people experiencing mental-health challenges. Find out more about Access to Work coaching, applications, funding arrangements and confidentiality.
Please get in touch for the relevant price guide. I am very happy to discuss rates, payment options, block-booking discounts, and the availability of reduced-rate support.
For more information about how I work, please see my Clinical Supervision Practice Statement.
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