Ross Cormack

As a qualified and experienced clinical supervisor, I offer supervision to Counsellors, Psychotherapists, and professionals working with Children and Young People. I am a UKCP registered Integrative Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist and Member of BACP.

I am passionate about developing the practice of therapists and developing therapeutic and reflective skills for professionals working independently and in organisations. I offer supervision to individuals and small groups to both qualified and trainee counsellors and psychotherapists. I believe supervision should be an open, safe, supportive and creative space to think about your clients and their relationship with you, and to create a supervisory relationship where you can bring the areas of your work that are most challenging to you to learn and grow in your practice.

I have over 20 years’ experience working with children and young people across youth work organisations, and in specialist child bereavement and counselling charities. I've also been the BACP clinical lead for a commissioned mental health service for adolescents and understand the importance of clinical supervision and reflective practice for workforce and organisational practice and development. 

I offer:

• Clinical supervision for therapists and mental health practitioners.

• Organisational supervision for managers of charities, social enterprises, health services and schools.

• Reflective practice supervision for teachers, SENCO's, Social Workers and other wellbeing professionals.

Experience and expertise

• School counselling in both primary and secondary settings, state and private education settings.

• 15 years experience working in bereavement and loss with individuals, families and groups.

• Complex grief and trauma support for homicide, suicide and military bereaved children & families.

• EMDR Therapy for complex trauma and dissociation in children, teenagers and adults.

• Therapeutic parenting to Adoptive parents

• Attachment and trauma informed Therapeutic Needs Assessments.

• BACP Clinical Lead for Adolescent Emotional Wellbeing Service

• Strategic management of commissioned CYP mental health service.

• Therapeutic services contract management

• Service development for staff and systems including data collection, case management, risk management, safeguarding, mental health training.

• CAMHS triage partner and liaison for high-risk cases

• Lead partner for Single Point of Access set up in West Sussex.

• CYP IAPT Leadership & Management

• CYP IAPT recruitment & trainee management

I offer an initial no obligation 30 minute conversation via phone or video meeting to discuss your requirements.

In this meeting my goal is to see if we both feel we can work together, to discuss your background, experience, and areas of interest, as well as your needs from supervision. We would then agree a time for a follow up call to decide if we might progress to working together. 

In the first supervision I'm looking to begin building  a collaborative relationship and establish a plan for our work together. I strive to create an empowering environment where you can explore your personal and professional growth, the challenges of your work and importantly progressing your therapeutic work with children and families. I aim to provide you with the support, guidance, and resources you need to enhance your clinical practice and work towards achieving your goals.

I work in Brighton on a Tuesday afternoon and Thursday until late evening.

I work at a clinic in Burgess Hill on Wednesdays and Fridays. 

I completed specialist Child and Adolescent training in integrative psychotherapy (meaning different theoretical approaches combined into a whole) at Terapia in London. The training equipped me to work in a range of therapeutic techniques including but not limited to, creative arts, sand tray, art, music, clay, play therapy and talking therapy. The foundation of the training is understanding the development of children and teenagers throughout the life course and developing advanced observation skills. 

I am a trauma informed therapist and work hard to make the therapy relationship and space feel safe and comfortable from the start. I have a special interest in attachment difficulties and adverse childhood experiences and have completed training in EMDR, a specialist trauma therapy, as well as attachment based parenting support and working with complex trauma and dissociation in children, teenagers and adults. 

I have worked therapeutically in a range of settings including  child bereavement services, complex grief and trauma, early intervention social care services, Looked After and Adopted Services, and early intervention Child & Adolescent Mental health services. 

I believe that the therapeutic relationship is key to healing distress and difficulties, to build self resilience, and to develop self awareness and coping skills. I will work hard to build a trusting relationship within a confidential and non judgmental space. 

Children and teenagers exits within a system of relationships, and essential within this system are parents and carers. When working with parents, I see my role as supporting them in thinking about how to understand and support their children through difficult periods in their lives, and to work alongside parents to utilise therapeutic thinking in their daily lives. 

I offer short and long term therapy and work hard to be open and transparent about the length of therapy and the desired aims of the work.

I work from a spacious office in Brighton, which is fully equipped with all the items needed for art and creative work. 

My office has a lift and is wheelchair accessible. There is reasonably priced on-street parking, with the option to reserve a space in our private car park.  There is also a bathroom and a waiting area for clients and/their parents.

I offer a complimentary introductory phone call to make sure I'm the right therapist for you. Following that, I would want to meet for a full session to better understand the issue you want support with and to begin to formulate a treatment plan. For children this is often with a parent first and with teenagers I'm flexible depending upon their age and the support required.