Supervision

Clinical Supervision

I am an experienced clinical supervisor with over 20 years experience. I have trainees and experienced therapists in supervision with me. Having been trained in the psychoanalytic method we become supervisors through our experience in analysis and working with patients and having our own supervision over many years. I have in particular supervised trainees at the Tavistock Clinic, experienced therapists and trainees from the John Bowlby centre that specialises in attachment.

I have a broad background in psychoanalytic work, and although Freud has been central, I have supervised those following Jung. I have a understanding of the full range of mainstream psychoanalytic thinking, including a rich understanding of French psychoanalysis. I also am familiar with other approaches in psychotherapy that complement our work with certain types of difficulties.

Due to my university and research foundations I can bring in relevent interdisciplinery links and forms of knowledge, that encourage professional development and can be helpful in furthering our understanding of the people who come to see us.

I also can supervise those working in allied caring professions if they are interested in working in greater depth with their patients.  

Academic Supervision 

with my background as an academic and my clinical expertise I can supervise Master, Doctorate and Post Doctoral level. I continue to do so for the Tavistock clinic and for select Universities where I also act as an External examiner for Professional doctorates.

As I have an interest and speciality in film and visual media as well as interdisciplinary studies within the humanities, Sociology, Philosophy and contemporary developments in the neurosciences I can offer a consultant supervisory role for other projects, for example for visual events, acting groups, media projects, television, film.

With this combined clinical and academic specialism and my ongoing active membership in the International Attachment Network, IAN, (I am a founding member of IAN) I undertake and can help organise workshops and teach in clinical training programmes.

I do have a particular interest in trauma and disturbances in bodily experience. This relates to my earlier book publication Between Skins, my personal journey and refugee history. Specifically states of unheimlich as it relates to bodily being, being not at home; in the place of home’.

I have explored this theme in film, in body symptoms that patients bring, in physical illness and other alterations in our bodily being. I look at the way social trauma, insecurity in attachment and heightened existential awareness are important contributory factors.