PO14 Fareham, Hampshire, UK
Supervision
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Clinical Supervision: Individuals, Groups and Organisations
I hold a Diploma in Supervision and UKCP Registration as an Approved Supervisor. I also hold a Post Grad Diploma in Relational Organisational Gestalt (Organisational Consultancy). I have vast experience working in a supervisory and consultancy role during my work in CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service - NHS), the private sector and in private practice and I supervise both child and adult therapists. I work with individual supervisee's, therapeutic teams, organisations and multi-agency teams. This includes Therapists, Social Workers, Foster carer's, Residential Workers, Teachers and Management teams.
Whether I am working with teams or individuals, I work at both an implicit and explicit level. My style is relational, which means that I work with the unaware aspects of clinical work, for instance the parallel process, transference and the wider system. I also consider what is happening in the here and now between supervisee/supervisee's and myself - what information does this hold for us in relation to client work and how do we work with this? Bringing the implicit into the explicit, developing greater clarity around working relationships, clinical work and the next steps if required.
My intention is to develop a supportive and collegiate environment for supervisee's to bring all aspects of their work and I recognise the importance of building an open and honest relationship for this to occur safely and usefully. I use Chidiac and Denham- Vaughan's Gestalt SOS model (self, other and the situation), Shohet and Hawkins seven eyed model and Pistole and Watkins attachment model, as a framework for my supervision practice. These models form the background to my work not a prescribed mode of working. My style is emergent, fluid and process orientated drawing upon different schools of therapy including Gestalt, Attachment, Trauma and the Neurosciences.
Supervision of supervision
I also work with experienced supervisors supervising their work with individuals, groups and organisations as well as working with Organisational Practitioners, Directors and Managers.
Reflective Practice
Reflective Practice - an attachment and trauma informed framework in organisations:
Reflective practice works well with organisations who work with very vulnerable people and encourages self reflection, responsibility and exploration of the wider system involving self, others and the situation.
Teams can consider patterns, triggers, parallel processes, organisational/team dynamics and the team structure that may impact a vulnerable persons reactions and as a result actions, as well as thinking around their needs i.e. what they maybe communicating and what they may evoke in professionals (transference, projection). Through this process organisations can experiment with small changes in themselves and the environment/relationships which may impact and support the people in their care. This is a multi-systemic approach.
Cathie believes that it is crucial to explore the whole system, as behaviours in the systems often reflect behaviours in the individual. Working with the systems and bringing these dynamics into awareness can dramatically support a vulnerable persons ability to self-regulate and reduce risk taking or harmful behaviours.
Reflective Practice can offer a secure base for staff to work within, a safe space to explore feelings in relation to working with extremely distressed people, a place to reflect on practice and develop plans were necessary.