Finding your own light, your own voice, your own direction
Mentoring for counsellors, psychotherapists, trainee teachers, and other caring professionals — thinking through your identity, your practice, and the shape of the professional life you are building.
Mentoring is not supervision. Where supervision focuses on the work you do with clients, mentoring focuses on you — on your development as a professional, your sense of who you are becoming, and the shape of the practice you are trying to build.
It is where the bigger questions of professional life get considered attention. Not the questions about this client, this hour, but the ones about this career, this direction, this next step.
My aspiration is to equip, empower and enable you to become the competent and capable professional that you want to be — and to help you develop your sense of self and agency as a practitioner.
Professional Mentoring
A considered pair of eyes on the whole of your professional life.
I have mentored people through their training as both therapists and teachers, and through the transitions that professional life keeps asking of us. Using my understanding of the organisational aspects of working for employers, as well as the responsibilities of self-employment, I can support you in finding your own style of practice within ethical and professional boundaries.
Mentoring is often the right route when you are:
- In training — and needing someone to help you make sense of it all
- Newly qualified — and finding your feet in the profession
- Moving between employed and self-employed practice — in either direction
- Making a significant shift — a new specialism, a new setting, a new role
- Building or growing a private practice — and wanting someone to think it through with
- Simply feeling that your professional life needs a considered pair of eyes on it
Sessions can be one-off or ongoing, in-person or online, at a rhythm that suits your situation. Fees vary according to context — every arrangement starts with a conversation.
BACP Accreditation Support
Companionship through a demanding — and growthful — application.
The BACP accreditation application is not a light undertaking. It asks you to articulate your practice, your ethical grounding, your integration of theory and experience, and your development as a practitioner — often for the first time in that much depth. Many practitioners find it a genuinely growthful process; almost all find it a demanding one.
I offer companionship through the process. I have supported many practitioners through accreditation applications and know what the panel is looking for, where applications tend to lose their way, and how to help you tell your professional story with clarity and honesty.
Support can range from:
- A single reflective session to help you decide whether you are ready to apply
- Structured drafting sessions as you work through the core sections of the application
- Review and feedback on drafts before you submit
- Ongoing companionship across the whole journey, from decision to submission
Every arrangement starts with a conversation.
What you can expect, whatever route you take
Looking for clinical supervision instead?
Clinical supervision — where you bring the work of the consulting room for regular reflection — is a distinct offering. If that is what you need, follow the link.
Ready for a conversation?
Every mentoring relationship begins with a conversation. Email or call — no obligation, and I read every enquiry personally.