Clinical Supervision
Collaborative Support for Ethical & Affirming Practice
Hello, I’m Gareth, a BACP-accredited integrative therapist and clinical supervisor. As a queer and neurodivergent practitioner, I bring over a decade of clinical experience to my supervision practice. I provide a compassionate, collaborative space designed to help you deconstruct your client work, sharpen your clinical intuition, and sustain your professional wellbeing.
Supervision works best when it is a formal yet highly collaborative process. I aim to offer a supportive, egalitarian relationship characterized by the mutual sharing of ideas. We will build a high-trust, “adult-to-adult” environment where you can bring your clinical successes alongside your stuck moments and anxieties. Together, we will navigate the normative, formative, and restorative tasks of supervision.
My approach is integrative and psychologically curious. I draw on various frameworks to help you understand the relational dynamics, ego states, and unconscious processes happening between you and your clients. Whether you are navigating complex ethical dilemmas or seeking to deepen your reflexive practice, I am here to ensure you feel supported, challenged, and inspired.
Practicalities & Fees
Formats
I offer supervision sessions online via secure video, by telephone, or face-to-face in Central Milton Keynes.
Fees
£70 per 50-minute session / £100 per 90-minute session for qualified practitioners.
Concessions
£60 per 50-minute session for trainee counselors / £90 per 90-minute session.
How I Can Support Your Practice
Ethical Dilemmas & Blind Spots
Neurodivergent-Affirming Lens
Supervision is a vital safety net. I can help you navigate complex ethical questions, safely manage risk, and ground your practice in the BACP Ethical Framework.
If you are supporting ADHD or Autistic clients, I can help you move beyond standard medical models. With lived experience of AuDHD, I help ensure your interventions are truly affirming.
LGBTQ+, Poly & GSRD Practice
Shame and the ‘Second Arrow’
I provide specialized support for working within Gender, Sex, and Relationship Diversity. We can ensure your practice remains intersectional and culturally competent.
Clinical work often triggers imposter syndrome. I use a compassion-based approach to help you identify critical self-talk, mitigating shame and keeping you grounded.
Sustaining Your Wellbeing
Trainee Support
This work is emotionally demanding. We will focus on your nervous system regulation and self-care strategies, ensuring you have the resilience to remain present for your clients.
If you are a student, I am experienced in supporting trainee development, completing assessment reports, and collaborating with your training provider.
Qualifications
Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills
A one year part-time program that served as an intermediate bridge between foundational communication skills and professional clinical practice. Requiring prior completion of the Level 2 'Introduction to Counselling' qualification, the program deepened my theoretical understanding of humanistic and integrative models while examining mental health contexts, psychological distress, client risk assessment and agency referral procedures. Delivered through classroom instruction, reflective portfolio assessments and practical peer skills triads, the course emphasised self-awareness, personal development and ethical practice aligned with BACP standards
Level 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
A two year course taken at Milton Keynes College. The course was accredited by Pearson Edexcel (known at the time as just Edexcel) based on 480 Guided Learning Hours and 1,200 Total Qualification Time. The primary modalities were Person Centred, Psychodynamic and CBT, with Gestalt and Transactional Analysis as a secondary focus. Aside from the core theories I also studied advanced counselling skills, comparative theoretical synthesis, lifespan human development, continuing personal development, research methods, grief, trauma and abuse, young people and relationship counselling. As part of this course I completed 150 direct, supervised client contact hours alongside regular clinical supervision and personal reflective work.
Level 6 Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Supervison
An online course taken at Independent Counselling Training. The course was accredited by CPCAB based on 90 Guided Learning Hours. The core frameworks were the 7-eyed model alongside the Cyclical model, CLEAR model and Person-Centred supervision. I also studied ethical and legal frameworks, supervisory relationship boundaries and stages, diversity theory and research, user-centred assessment strategies, skilled use of self, research-informed practice and working online. As part of this course, I completed 15 supervision practice hours and 5 supervisory supervision hours, alongside a tutor-observations.
Further Training
All the Colours of the Rainbow - Queer Affirming Pedagogy
Beyond the Drama Triangle
Brief Solution Focused Therapy
Defining Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Therapy (Accredited Module)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Mastery
From Freud to Intersubjectivity
Identity Based Traumatic Shame
Let's Get Creative! Creative Therapy Methods
Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Autism
Level 2 Certificate in Working with Neurodiversity: From Awareness to Adaptation
Mindfulness
Psychotherapy Skills: Developmental Stages
Self-Wellness & Resilience for Mental Health Professionals
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills
The Social GGRRAAACCEEESSS in Therapy
Trauma and the Body: Dissociation & Somatisation
Uncertainty Expert Certification
Using Creative Collage in Therapy and Counselling