Welcome

Welcome to my blog and clinical supervision resources website - The Counselling Supervisor.

I have been practicing, teaching, training and writing on the subjects of psychotherapy, counselling, clinical supervision and mental health for more years than I care to remember - and my career in mental health work began as a trainee (cadet) nurse in a large psychiatric hospital in Merseyside,in the UK way back in 1972, when I was a mere lad of 16.

In those days, clinical supervision was a thing of the future. Psychiatric nurses got on with the job to the best of their ability, they didn't have the time nor often the inclination to talk their work with patients over with an interested, yet objective third party - unless they could find a friendly colleague who had the time to chat. It was a haphazard and unstructured process that sometimes led to the novice nurse being given unhelpful and/or confusing guidance.

It was only when I began training in psychotherapy, much later in my mental health career, that I came across the concept of formalized and structured clinical supervision.

I am pleased to be in a position to be able to pass on some of my hard-won experiences as a therapist, a supervisee and a clinical supervisor.

So, welcome to "The Counselling Supervisor" and I hope that you will find the posts and resources on this website of value and of interest as you pursue your own professional journey.

If you have any comments or questions about counselling, psychotherapy or clinical supervision that you feel I can help with, don't hesitate to let me have them - I will be delighted to hear from you.


Stephen Power