Fiona Turnbull

I’m based in the Balham (Monday), Clapham (Tuesday) and Pimlico (Wednesday, Thursday) areas of London. I am currently offering fortnightly supervision. I have space for one to two new supervisees as at September 2024. 

My guiding principle as a supervisor is to support you to feel confident, grounded and skilled in your practice. 

For me, the foundation of good supervision is to build a trusting, solid, collaborative relationship between supervisor and supervisee where you can feel safe to explore aspects of the work you might be finding challenging. I also believe in affirming supervisees’ strengths and celebrating as you grow in confidence and experience.

One of the aspects of being a therapist and supervisor that I love is that there is always more to learn, experience and reflect on and so I actively encourage an enthusiasm for learning and questioning in supervision.

I like to make space for reflecting on specific client work, broad therapy themes, your practice and any ways in which your personal life and professional work might be influencing each other.

I’m a relational gestalt supervisor and so that means I will often bring an experiential slant to supervision, incorporate aspects of here-and-now experience, and explore what’s happening in our relationship to provide a lens on work with clients.

I bring warmth and commitment and a down-to-earth approach to my work as a supervisor.

I’m particularly committed to supporting newly-qualified or early career counsellors or therapists embarking on the early stages of their practice. I believe good supervision has a vital role to play when you’re establishing yourself and finding your own style, strengths and preferences as a practitioner.

I am currently working towards UKCP accreditation as a supervisor and so I offer supervision on a reduced fee basis of £50 per hour until my accreditation process is complete, hopefully in early 2025.

I offer fortnightly supervision either in person in Balham, south London, or online or on a hybrid basis.   

I've run supervision groups with experienced bereavement volunteers in my former role as senior counsellor at Royal Trinity Hospice in Clapham. 

I have a busy and thriving private practice in London and previously worked for four years as a senior counsellor in the Patient and Family Support Team at Royal Trinity Hospice. 

I support clients from diverse backgrounds, all bringing a broad range of life challenges. I have experience working with grief and loss; abuse; anxiety; challenges with self-esteem, self-acceptance and self-compassion; life transitions and questions about life direction; fertility and pregnancy issues; food, eating and body image; relationship difficulties; low mood; and serious illness. That said, I am always focused on clients' unique experience of what they're finding challenging rather than only thinking in terms of issues. 

My background is as a gestalt psychotherapist. I'm registered with BACP and accredited with UKCP. I draw on several other theoretical approaches in my work, especially trauma, attachment, feminist and systemic ideas.

When you first enquire about supervision, I'll get back in touch to arrange an initial exploratory call for 20-30 minutes at no charge. This is an opportunity to find out more about my supervision approach and to begin to scope out whether we might work well together. 

The next step is to arrange a trial supervision session which is charged at my low-cost fee of £30-£40 which we'll negotiate. I'll ask more about your current practice: what's going well, where you'd like to grow and develop, any aspects of the work that are challenging you at the moment and what your hopes are from supervision. We will likely explore an area of client work so you can experience how I practise. 

If you'd like to go ahead and I feel I'm well placed to support you, we'll agree a plan going forward and I'll ask you to complete a supervision agreement. 

My goal above all is to make sure you have the right supervision for you as a practitioner and for your clients and I'm happy to facilitate that decision.