Supervision with depth, reflection and experience
Supervision is about bringing your work fully into a space where it can be explored, held and understood. With over 35 years’ experience of supervision in education, and almost 20 years supervising complex clinical practice in counselling and psychotherapy, I offer a reflective, relational and collaborative approach that challenges, supports and sharpens your thinking.
Supervision – the grown-up relationship
I see supervision as the grown-up relationship of therapy: an adult-to-adult dialogue where the practical and relational aspects of your work can be considered with care and rigour. It is a space to think alongside another experienced practitioner and to explore your practice in depth.
Drawing on Adlerian principles of vertical and horizontal relating, I hold supervision as a psychologically equal encounter. For that equality to be real, the unedited experience of your clinical work needs to be brought into the room. Without it, the clearest view of reality is lost. When material is softened, filtered or defended against, supervision can drift into vertical dynamics of superior and inferior rather than remain grounded in horizontal, shared enquiry.
Congruence therefore matters. It allows supervision to remain reflective, steady and alive.
My supervision practice
I began offering supervision within educational settings in the mid-1990s and trained in an Adlerian model in 2008. I have worked with trainees and highly experienced practitioners from relational, psychodynamic, integrative, CBT, Gestalt, person-centred and existential traditions, as well as those working in education and specialist therapeutic contexts.
My 35 years of experience with ADHD and neurodivergence, including in educational settings, continue to inform the depth and nuance of my supervisory work. My clinical practice also includes substantial work in sex and relationship therapy, including with compulsive sexual behaviours. This experience informs supervision where issues of sexuality, shame, power, trauma and attachment are present, often in complex and nuanced ways.
I offer supervision in Bristol (BS1) and online across the UK, working with practitioners at different stages of professional development.
I am currently pausing intake of new supervisees. New supervision relationships will be considered from 2027 where there is a strong therapeutic fit.
Fees
- Individual supervision: £80 per hour
- Group supervision: details on enquiry
A closing note
Supervision is not simply oversight. It is the place where your thinking is refined, your blind spots become visible and your clinical authority deepens.
Bringing yourself fully and honestly into the room — without editing or defending — allows supervision to remain rigorous, grounded and alive.
While my intake is currently paused, this page reflects the experience and stance I bring to supervisory work. Future supervision spaces will open where there is a strong therapeutic fit.
You might like to contact my trusted colleagues Jim Holloway or Glenn Nicholls if you are interested in high quality supervision.
Get In Touch
You are welcome to contact me but please be aware that my practice is often very busy. I review potential work carefully to ensure a good clinical fit.
To arrange an initial session or for further information, you can contact me via duncan@therapy-space.co.uk by using the contact form below, or by text or phone on 07871 257 457
Please note that responses may take several days but I aim to respond to all professional enquiries within a week.