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CLINICAL & CROSS-PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISION

 
 
Working as a therapist or allied health practitioner can be incredibly fulfilling work. Most of us who train in and pursue these careers have a natural empathy and desire to be of service. What comes with the role is a responsibility for not only your clients wellbeing but for your own self-care and continued professional and personal development.  This ensures best practice and a high level of service for your clients, while maintaining your own wellbeing.
Supervision offers a structured, supportive learning environment for reflection on one’s client  work and oneself within the work. 
 
As a basic requirement for most therapeutic governing bodies and highly recommended by way of research and policy for the allied health professions, regular structured supervision is not only essential to ensure best practice and competency within the professions, it’s also an invaluable resource to support continued professional development and promote self-care as central aspect of the work. 
 
 
 
With a focus on best practice and client care alongside personal and professional growth and development, the supervisory space offers a birds eye view of the professional space, through a reflective lens with an interest in uncovering hidden dynamics, blind spots and unseen influences that impact the healthy flow within the relational field of the work. It's a learning forum in which gaps in knowledge, support and focus can be identified with a view to co-creating a strategy to address and amend these areas.
 
The supervisory space if facilitated skilfully and engaged in with honesty and presence can become a well of resources that the supervisee will find invaluable for both their client work and personal & professional wellbeing.
 

 

Clinical Supervision for Counsellors & Psychotherapists

 
Clinical supervision is a long established provision within the therapeutic space. A structured and reflective space, it provides an essential opportunity for professional learning, practitioner care and gate-keeping of ethical standards within the professions. My supervision approach is an integrative one, grounded in the Cyclical Model           (Wosket & Page) and the Seven-Eyed Model of Supervision (Hawkins & Shohet). Both 1-1 and group supervision available, meeting requirements for IACP, IAHIP, BACP accredited members. Some modalities I have provided clinical supervision for are:
 
- Integrative Counsellors
 
- Humanistic Psychotherapists
 
- Addiction Counsellors
 

 

Cross-Professional Supervision for Allied Health & Helping Professionals

 
With a background in the community/voluntary sector and specific training in cross-professional supervision, I  believe that external supervision is key to supporting front line workers working in these challenging times and circumstances. Therefore I'm passionate about the provision of quality supervision for those working in the allied health professions, social care and community development field. Some of the professionals I have provided supervision for included:
 
- Nursing staff
 
- Social Care Workers
 
- Project workers
 
- Social Workers
 
 

 

Restorative Supervision for Frontline & Non-Clinical Professionals 

Frontline workers in non-clinical settings are often forgotten  when it comes to supervision and support. For many professionals working with the public there is a high level of stress, secondary trauma and indeed burnout due to lack of resources and increasing demand on services. Restorative Supervision places a key role in the professional learning and development of these staff, offering a space to reflect on digest the often challenging interactions and situations they deal with on a daily basis. Some professions that can benefit from such include: 

Teachers & Principles

Garda Personell

Solicitors & Court Workers

Front facing Public Servants 

 

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 I'm Caroline Nolan and I facilitate practitioners, professionals and organisations to become resourced and resilience through clinical & cross-professional supervision, organisational consultancy & training and the practitioner-care collective.

My approach draws on my 25years of working in allied health professions, natural health and healing field and private practice as a psychotherapist alongside establishing and running several successful businesses. My formal training in Supervision along with my commitment to continued professional development has given me the opportunity to develop an integrative and eclectic approach to the work.