One-to-one, confidential, and strengths-based.
For SLTs, OTs and other AHPs who want clinical supervision that does more than tick a box.
A place to think it through.
Clinical Supervision for Allied Health Professionals
Clinical Supervision for your professional growth
If you're reading this, you're probably holding a caseload that takes more than your training quite prepared you for. Your work probably involves aspects of sensory integration, neurodivergent participation, complex communication, the kind of thing that prescribed, published programmes don't really work for. It requires careful, thoughtful practice and an understanding of the centrality of the therapeutic relationship. You probably feel like there's always more that needs doing no matter how hard you push yourself, and it's not unusual to start putting off supervision because you feel like you don't have time to press pause and you don't even have a handle on what your questions are. It just all feels like it's getting too much. The progress seems slow. And maybe imposter syndrome is looming large.
Some of the most interesting clinical work happens in tiny increments, and supervision is where you come to think out loud, test your reasoning, and put down some of the weight of carrying it alone.
How I work
I don't work from a deficit model, and I won't ask you to. The assumption I start from is that difficulty is nearly always a mismatch between a person's individual pattern of strengths and skills, their environment, and the demands that the context demands of them. Or at the very least, that's a perspective worth exploring first. The person isn't a thing to be 'fixed': although there are always new skills to develop, there's an equal emphasis on changing the context to give the person the opportunity to use their strengths to the full. That holds for your clients. It also holds for you, especially if you're a neurodivergent clinician who has tried for years to implement strategies for working in ways that are a bit less like yourself. You'll find something different here: a starting point that you are not broken, and a real curiosity about how your brain works, so you can practise in a way that costs you less and gives you back more.
This kind of clinical supervision tends to suit allied health professionals looking to work in a neurodiversity-affirming way anywhere from newly qualified to decades in. You don't have to be neurodivergent, and you don't have to work in sensory integration (though if you do, that's a lens I'm glad to bring). What the people I supervise mostly share is a sense that there's more underneath their practice than their given frameworks allow for, and a wish to think it through with someone who sits outside their current line management structure.
I'm a speech and language therapist by background, and that's where my clinical reasoning was built. I supervise SLTs, and I supervise across the wider team, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and others working with sensory differences, neurodivergent and complex communication caseloads, because the questions that bring people to supervision are usually around a person, an environment, and a set of demands that don't fit together, and that's the same shape of problem even though the priorities and goals will differ for different professional remits.
Where our professions differ, I'll say so. If something you bring needs profession-specific oversight, a clinical decision that properly sits with an OT's or a physio's own registration, I'll name it and we'll find the right additional piece of input. Knowing where my scope ends is part of what makes the space safe to think in.
Credentials and experience
I'm registered with the HCPC (Reg: SL09093), RCSLT (Reg: 0017960) and ASLTIP (Reg: 1818) and I am the RCSLT National Clinical Adviser for Sensory Integration. I am accredited at Senior Practitioner level with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) (Reg: M139726ID), which means the confidentiality of our sessions is professionally bound rather than just personally promised.
Session notes are held and retained for 12 months in line with HCPC expectations and GDPR/ICO guidelines. I've been supervising since 2008, and have both a Masters degree from Oxford Brookes University in Coaching and Mentoring Practice and full ICF/IACT international certification in ADHD workplace coaching.
Pay yourself or commissioned by your service
You have the option to work with me on a personal basis, or to arrange commissioned clinical supervision through your organisation or NHS trust.External supervision paid for by an organisation is a three-way arrangement: you, me, and your service. The service is entitled to know that supervision is happening, that it's happening at the agreed frequency, and that it's being delivered by someone appropriately qualified to deliver it. What the service is not entitled to is the content. Confirmation of uptake, yes. Access to what you bring, no. If something arises that meets the threshold for escalation, safeguarding, or a fitness to practise concern, I follow the protocol laid out by our professional bodies.
For anyone reading this who is about to ask their service to fund supervision, or who commissions it: I can provide a written outline of the arrangement, confirmation of registration and accreditation, and attendance confirmation at whatever interval your governance requires. If it would help to have that conversation before you take it to your manager, you can use the Calendly link below to book in a quick chat - no charge.
Supervision model
Supervision does three things at once. The first is about your practice staying safe and accountable, not in a box-ticking sense, but the reassurance of a second clinical mind on your reasoning, your risks, the decisions you're less sure about. The second is about your thinking growing, working out why an approach does or doesn't seem to be working, exploring the impact of intersectional differences within a given context, building the case for what you do next, getting sharper at articulating your clinical reasoning. And the third is about the demand on yourself. This work asks a lot of you emotionally, and somewhere to bring that, to be met rather than managed, is part of what keeps you practising well.
(For anyone reading this who commissions supervision, or who's about to ask their service to fund it: that's Proctor's three functions, normative, formative, restorative. I work to that model. The framework is there underneath; but in the sessions you won't feel it as a formal structure.)
None of these is a fixed agenda. You bring what's live, the case that's stuck, the decision you’re dithering over, the difficult conversation you’re avoiding, the week that took more out of you than it should have, and we work out
together what is needed. Some sessions are mostly clinical reasoning. Some are mostly about you as the person doing the work. Most are both, because in practice you can't cleanly separate them. The work we do as therapists happens inside relationships of trust.
Session options and sliding scale fees
Sessions typically last an hour, but I ask you to schedule a thirty minute buffer at the end as a neurodivergence-affirming design choice to give you time to process and be ready to engage back into your clinical day.
I am happy to work one to one, paired, or small group. Paired and group sessions work well when people are working with similar caseloads and can use each other's thinking - you don't necessarily have to be working in the same organisation or Trust as each other.
I usually work online, and organise booking through Calendly, so you can find, book and reschedule slots to work around the demands of your job. Frequency is up to you, reviewed once a year. Monthly suits some people. Others come termly or just when the work demands it. If you're already working with me and want to change the frequency, or pause, or come back after a gap, you can just say. Rebooking isn't a fresh application.
I currently charge a flat rate of £95 for Clinical Supervision, ADHD Workplace Coaching and Personal and Professional Mentoring for individuals paying for themselves, or £105 per session if your organisation is paying to cover the admin and time costs. I offer a discount for NQPs in their first two years of practice, and for anyone whom I have mentored through Sensory Integration Education during their ASI training. I accept Access to Work funding and can invoice for it.
There's also a Pay What You Can rate for individual clinicians who need it. If things are tight right now, you can still get supervision. You tell me what you can pay for the moment. I don't ask why.
Try before you buy!
I work with people and through relationships. This means that the deciding factor in whether this is useful to you isn't my model or my credentials. It's whether the two of us think well together. You can't tell that from reading my website. So I'm going to make you an offer...
If you've read this far, book twenty minutes with me. It's free, and it's the only way either of us finds out whether this works. A testimonial can't tell you whether you'd want to think out loud in front of me. Twenty minutes talking to me about something that's on your mind in relation to your work. Twenty minutes, no charge, no obligation. You'll know by the end if we're a good fit, and so will I. If I'm not, I'll usually know who is and I'll signpost you onwards.
Click the Calendly link to book a time that suits you. Put “taster session” in the notes. Bring something real, the case you keep circling, the decision you can't settle. We'll work on it. It's a taster, not a conversation about supervision but twenty minutes of the thing itself. If it's useful, we go on. If not, you've had a useful twenty minutes.
I'm looking forward to getting to know you through your work.
