If you are a counsellor, social worker or other helping professional, you already know the peculiar weight of this work: the client you carry home in your head, the session that went somewhere you didn't expect, the slow erosion that happens when you hold other people's pain without anywhere to put your own thinking. Counsellor supervision exists for exactly this — and good supervision is the difference between a sustainable career and a burnt-out one.

I offer reflective, experience-based supervision and mentoring, online, drawing on 40+ years that span community social work, years inside a care home, and a long private practice working with grief, trauma, older people, couples and families. Whatever you are sitting with, the odds are good I have sat with something like it.

What supervision with me looks like

Our sessions are a protected hour to think, with three strands that weave together as you need them:

  • Case discussion. The clients who puzzle you, stall you, or get under your skin — thinking through what is happening in the work and what it is stirring in you.
  • Professional identity. Especially for social workers in or moving toward private practice: scope, confidence, boundaries, and owning the authority of your own training and experience.
  • Burnout prevention. Honest attention to your own reserves, compassion fatigue, and the habits that keep a long career possible. I have lasted a long time in this field; that did not happen by accident.

My style is the same as in my clinical work: unhurried, direct, and free of jargon. Supervision should leave you clearer and steadier, not more performed-at.

Supervision for social workers, in particular

Social work supervision has too often meant managerial oversight — caseload numbers and compliance — rather than a real reflective space. If you are a social worker in statutory work, an NGO, a care setting or private practice, I offer the other kind: supervision interested in you as a practitioner, in the emotional labour of the work, and in the clinical thinking behind your decisions. Having worked in statutory settings, in residential care and in private practice myself, I can meet you in whichever of those worlds you occupy.

Who this is for — and what I am not claiming

I work with counsellors, social workers and other helping professionals in South Africa and internationally. To be plain about what I offer: this is experience-based professional supervision and mentoring, grounded in a long career of practice. I don't hold a supervision-specific accreditation, and if your professional body requires formally accredited supervision for registration hours, please check its rules first — I am glad to be a second, reflective space alongside whatever your body requires, and for many practitioners I am the primary thinking partner their formal structures never provided. You can read more about my background on my about page.

Practicalities

Supervision sessions are 60 minutes, online by video call, at the same fee as my individual sessions: R750 in South Africa, £40 / €45 from the UK, Ireland or Europe. Monthly or fortnightly are the most common rhythms; some practitioners book ad hoc sessions around a difficult case. South African time sits close to UK and European hours, so scheduling across borders is straightforward. I don't take on clients based in the United States. When you're ready, reach me through the contact page or by WhatsApp.