Rita Edah

I see my role as a supervisor as one of working collaboratively with you to facilitate your reflection on your work and your congruence in it, underpinned by my person-centred and pluralistic philosophy to life and practice.

Through the supervision process and the activities within it, I expect that my supervisees will increasingly bridge gaps (where relevant) in their understanding between theory and practice, reflect on their work and review alternative perspectives, take fresh ideas back into their client work, wrestle with and probably untangle some ethical dilemmas, feel refreshed and reinvigorated in themselves, and grow both professionally and personally.  

In my experience as a supervisee, when the balance between my client’s welfare and my own wellbeing/personal and professional development have been in harmony, I have experienced supervision as being positive: this is what I hope to offer to my supervisees.

If, following our email correspondence, we agree to work together, I will then send you some onboarding emails which will include practical information you might need as well as a working agreement and consent request for you to review.

We could also use the first session as an opportunity to explore what it is you’d like out of supervision and to get a sense as to whether we feel we are a good fit to work together.

In the session, we will be working with whatever it is you want to focus on after clarifying/renegotiating aspects of the working agreement to suit us both (where relevant).

At the end of that first session, we can decide whether or not we wish to continue to work together.  Or you could take some time  to think about it and come back to me.

Just like counselling/psychotherapy and coaching, the supervisory relationship is vital to effective supervision.  Therefore I like us to factor in a review after our first 3 sessions together to determine how comfortable both parties feel regarding continuing working together.  

I'm open to working face-to-face-in-person  as well as remotely by video calls or telephone.

The next step is for you to send me a message to arrange that initial session. Let’s get the ball rolling and see how it goes…