Supervision and Consultation

We offer individual and group supervision for a range of professional contexts including Social Care, Mental Health, Education and Youth Justice Services.

Our overarching framework is trauma-informed supervision. Trauma-informed supervision is an ethos, rather than a specific model, and we embody the following values within the supervisory relationship:

• Safety, trust, and collaboration.
• Everyone’s experiences, perspectives and differences are included, welcomed and celebrated.
• The importance of having a safe, consistent, regular and reflective space, particularly when working within complex contexts and complex clients.
• The acceptance that we all have our own triggers and stressors which can be activated within our work. Supervision will value reflection, well-being and self-care.
• The understanding that sometimes feelings and behaviours with our clients can get repeated in the supervision relationship. This will be held in mind and worked with in supervision if helpful.
• Supervision is relational. It is a two-way relationship where both voices are listened to and both voices matter.

Clinical supervision is an ongoing relationship between the supervisor and supervisee where, just as with direct therapeutic or supportive work, trust and collaboration builds over time. We treat the supervisory relationship with respect and compassion, whilst also holding central the importance of constructive challenge and the need for us all to be held to account for our professional action or in-action.

Clinical supervision and consultation can be offered face to face in one of our clinics or offered remotely. We provide a clear framework of safety and governance around our supervision and consultation which helps to protect the supervisee, supervisor and, of course, the clients we are holding in mind. Our framework includes:

• The supervisee and supervisor agree and sign a contract, setting out our mutual expectations, goals and boundaries.
• The supervisee/consultee will be asked to provide contact details which we store on our secure database.
• The supervisee will be provided with our Privacy Statement – explaining what data we store and process, and how that information is protected.
• Our records from supervision/consultation sessions are available on request.
• We have a robust safeguarding framework and a Designated Safeguarding Lead on duty each day. Should there be any safeguarding concerns arising from the supervision conversation then we are able to sensitively respond to these within our usual processes. You can find our Safeguarding policy here.
• Our therapists receive supervision and oversight for the supervision and consultation they offer to others, meaning we have layers of support and reflection enabling the work to be safe, effective and anchored.
• Our therapists are on an active and exciting journey of CPD themselves, including access to all Beacon House training.
• If supervisees or consultees would like to share feedback, raise a concern or a formal complaint, we have an accessible and transparent process available which can be found here.