Heather Ainscough

Monday - Friday  (I do not work Thursdays)

I offer supervision face to face and online via Zoom. 

I am a qualified supervisor with 20 years of experience working as a psychotherapist.  My approach is integrative, relational, but rooted in the Person Centred model.  

My way of working is to attune to your approach, to support you,  and perhaps to bring new insight.   

We will explore issues brought by your client and notice the ways in which transference plays out in therapy (and sometimes in supervision!) freeing the work and helping clients grow and learn about themselves. 

I have a strong commitment to the ethical considerations of therapy, I would like to explore these together and to support challenges which will occasionally  but inevitably arise. 

I aim to help you grow as a therapist and to become your own best expert!

If working face to face we would meet in a comfortable room in my garden which offers privacy and an open aspect.   I also work via Zoom. 

I am committed to my own individual and group supervision in order to support best practice.  

I have considerable experience of working with complex trauma and have additional training in this area in addition to working with awareness of  Polyvagal theory. I have a long term interest in mindfulness and meditation as well as in world religions, paganism and spirituality.

Sessions can be 60 to 90 minutes depending on your caseload.

We would meet monthly on a regular basis.

Finding the right supervisor can be difficult so the first session is about listening to what you need from supervision and discovering whether we suit each other as supervisor and supervisee. If you decide to continue we will negotiate a contract and set a date for your first supervision session.   

If future work is to be via zoom I would like to have an initial face to face meeting if possible.