Supervision with Human Kindness™

Supervision is part of professional self-care; offering a key support in developing your individual resource and our collective ethical awareness.

You might also:

  • like support to understand and develop your professional identity;

  • be using a psychological lens in your work;

  • be interested in exploring your relationship with arts and reflective practice;

  • be working towards qualification or accreditation as a coach; and/or

  • have a well-being focus in your coaching practice

1:1 Supervision costs £100/hr or £50/hr reduced rate - find out more

What is Supervision?

Supervision is a form of professional support for coaching practitioners. Working with a supervisor provides a safe space for coaches to consider and reflect on their coaching practice, bringing awareness to their client relationships and professional standards.

Supervision offers an opportunity to access different perspectives on the work we do to help us to become ‘unstuck’ in our thinking and our practice. With the right relationship at its core, supervision can be a deeply transformative and empowering space.

Michael Carroll defines supervision as “a meeting place of equals where practitioners ‘sit at the feet of their own experience’ and, in relationship with one another, delve deeply and reflectively into their work.” I’m not sure I could put it into more succinct or powerful words.

My Philosophy of Supervision?

I view supervision as part of professional self-care for coaches, offering resourcing and developmental spaces for deep restoration and vital self-expression. I offer guidance on your professional standards; development for your professional practice; and support for your well-being.

I began my training as a supervisor in 2023 and I have been working with coaches and coaching psychologists in both 1:1 and Group supervision spaces that are both highly supportive and deeply challenging.

My coaching approach acts as the anchor to my supervision practice - positive psychology, creativity, and client-focussed work are my foundational lenses as a supervisor. I am also particularly interested in bringing ethics to life, promoting safe practice, and the role of active and creative reflective practice.

In my own experience as a coach in supervision, the space requires me to listen deeply to my thoughts and feelings, and the spaces in-between, in service of enhancing my self-insight and my capacity for the work. It is a way to make sense of my coaching relationships and our broader practice as coaches, to explore my emotional experiences in and around the work, to clarify the boundaries and safety of my practice, and to validate my previous thinking - or perhaps more importantly, to provoke new thinking.

Supervision with Human Kindness™?

Love is my biggest strength - it has taken me a long time to truly connect with and understand the value that this brings to my work, particularly as a coach and supervisor. I seek connection with others through our shared humanity, working with an intention of kindness and compassion. I believe in the resourcefulness and capacity of the coaches I support, fostering deep connection to them as individuals as well as to the work they are bringing to the surface.

Some of the things I’ve recently been supporting people with through the lens of care and compassion include:

  • Compassion fatigue from giving too much of ourselves in service of others

  • Deepening our reflective practice and individal capacity for reflection

  • Safe and ethical integration of psychology into coaching practice

  • Experimentation with arts-based approaches in reflective practice and client work

  • Confidence in our identity as a coach and the value we bring through our offer.