Supervision for Hypnotherapists

Supervision is a collaborative process to help you develop as a hypnotherapist and support you in your practice so that your clients receive the very best care from you. I offer one-to-one supervision to practising hypnotherapists via Google Meet.

The purpose of supervision

There are three areas of your hypnotherapy practice that supervision can play a role. These are:

• Learning & Development - supervision helps you to develop your skills, abilities and understanding in the field of hypnosis and mental health

• Support - supervision is there to provide you with emotional and professional support

• Accountability - supervision ensures that you are working safely and ethically with your clients

Let’s look at these in a bit more detail.

Learning & Development

Supervision provides you with the opportunity to reflect upon how you are working with your clients and specific issues; what is going well in addition to areas that you might be struggling with; identify training needs or avenues you wish to explore further, and receive feedback and guidance where applicable.

Support

Compassion fatigue, burnout and even secondary traumatic stress are very real concerns for any therapist. In addition to this, therapists might also experience a loss of confidence in their abilities, feel isolated, or maybe they’re making a lot of changes to their practice which is causing some upheaval. Supervision offers you the space to share and explore any emotions or worries you are experiencing as a result of working with your clients and running your hypnotherapy practice, as well as helping you establish coping strategies and self-care routines to support yourself.

Accountability

Supervision is there to ensure that you continue to work safely and ethically with your clients, adhering to your governing body’s code of ethics and conduct at all times.

Whether you are a student, newly qualified or a more experienced hypnotherapist, each of these areas of supervision can be of benefit to you.

Supervision shouldn’t be a chore, something you feel like you have to do just to satisfy your governing bodies. There is so much to be gained from having supervision. It adds value to your practice, that both yourself and your clients will benefit from.

Supervision requirements

There are many different hypnotherapy governing bodies out there, each with its own supervision requirements for its members. Please ensure that you check what amount of supervision your governing body requires of you each year as terms of your membership.

A number of these governing bodies state that you only require supervision for a number of years after you qualify. I strongly disagree with that, and not just because I’m a supervisor. It is my belief that any therapist wishing to run a professional practice and be the best therapist they can be for their clients should undergo supervision on a regular basis, regardless of how long they’ve been practising.

I still regularly have supervision, both for the work I do as a therapist as well as the work I do as a supervisor.

Why choose me as your supervisor?

• I am trained in a number of different models of supervision which allows me to tailor the supervision sessions to your needs.

• I adhere to evidence-based supervision practices to ensure you get the most out of supervision

• I am trained in a number of different approaches to hypnotherapy, including Cognitive Behavioural, Eriksonian, and Solution-focused, which gives me a good understanding of how you work, allowing me to supervise you regardless of whether our approaches to hypnotherapy match or not

• I am one of Bristol’s Senior Clinical Hypnotherapists and work with a wide range of issues and clients

• I am a senior classroom assistant on the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma at Anglo European College of Therapeutic Hypnosis, supporting the students through their training

• I have an Advanced Diploma in Hypnotherapy, which covered hypnosis research in-depth as well as advanced applications of hypnosis

• I am an accredited supervisor with the UK Hypnotherapy Council (UKHC).

Supervision & Tutorial Fees

One-to-one Supervision via Google Meet (30 min) - £30

One-to-one Supervision via Google Meet (1 hour) - £60

Supervision offers a reflective learning and development space, but it is not a tutorial. If you would like to have a dedicated tutorial to learn new techniques or approaches, understand how to work with a specific issue, or anything else relating to hypnotherapy, I offer one-to-one tutorials outside of the supervision relationship.

One-to-one Tutorials via Google Meet (1 hour) - £60