Nicola Peck

I am a qualified Supervisor, with over 10 years’ experience. 

My aim is to provide my supervisees with a caring and supportive confidential space where they can bring their practice and we can explore together their client work. I support supervisees’ learning and growth as well as providing quality and risk management functions. 

For me, a positive and professional working alliance is key to successful supervision.

I support supervisees both individually and in small groups.

I work in private practice.

I use the first session as an introductory session for all parties to start the work and to reflect as to whether we agree that a positive working alliance is being formed.

I work with clients who wish to examine and further understand their physical and emotional responses to what life throws at them. Life doesn’t always run smoothly (I’m not sure it’s designed to) so sometimes our anxieties and negative feelings come to the surface and can have a detrimental effect on us and how we experience life and the world. 

Sometimes difficult feelings may be our response to a particular situation - say a bereavement, a stressful work situation, relationship difficulty or even when we have a tendency to compare ourselves to others. 

Whether it’s a particular issue, or life more generally, I help clients explore how they’re feeling and discover which strategies might be suitable for them. We might talk about the specific situation and develop some techniques to help, we might look at some psycho-educational materials, do some breathing or relaxation exercises or work creatively to increase self-awareness and, in the process, encourage learning and growth.

I work in private practice.

I use the first session as an introductory session for all parties to start the work and to reflect as to whether we agree that a positive working alliance is being formed.