Clinical Supervision

You know that part of you who’s organised, ethical, and always prepared with a colour coded folder of resources?

Great news! It’s welcome in supervision.

So is the part that second guesses every clinical decision. And the one that can’t stop thinking about that one client session from three Tuesdays ago. And yes, even the part that wants to quit, move to the mountains, and start a pottery studio.

Clinical supervision isn’t about showing up with your polished “competent clinician” part front and centre. It’s about creating a space where all your parts can be seen, heard, and gently explored, especially the ones that don’t usually get invited to supervision meetings

What Does That Actually Look Like?

In supervision, we:

• Make space for the parts of you activated by your clients (hello, inner rescuer and not-good-enough part).

• Explore protective parts that show up in the room. (Yours and your client’s)

• Unblend from the parts that feel solely responsible for “fixing”, and reconnect to your Self: the part of you that leads with compassion, clarity, and calm.

• Notice patterns, polarisations, and legacy burdens without shame, pathologising, or PowerPoint Slides (unless you really want one).

Supervision becomes less about ticking clinical boxes (although we do that too) and more about fostering self-leadership, reflective practice, and sustainable emotional presence in your work.

Who Is This Supervision For?

IFS-informed supervision is ideal for:

• Therapists, social workers, psychologists, and counsellors trained in or integrating IFS into their clinical work.

• Practitioners working with complex trauma, addiction, eating disorders, relational wounding, or high-activation clients.

• Supervisees seeking more than a compliance checkbox. Those who want to feel seen, supported, and challenged in a respectful, values-aligned way.

• Helpers who are burnt out, discouraged, or navigating workplace systems that feel misaligned with their internal values.

• Clinicians curious about parts language, inner systems, and working from a non-pathologising framework.

What Might We Explore Together?

In an IFS supervision space, we might:

• Map your internal system as it relates to client work.

• Explore parts that carry fear around competency, visibility, failure, or “not doing enough”.

• Practice Self-energy access in clinical decision-making.

• Navigate ethical dilemmas with support from both your inner and outer systems.

• Get curious about the IFS triangle (Manager, Firefighter, Exile) and how it may show up in the therapist-client dynamic.

• Notice how your own protectors show up around risk, responsibility, and relational rupture.

And yes, some days we may also just name that a part of you is exhausted, a part of you is trying really hard, and another part of you would rather be at a dog park or in a bubble bath. That’s okay. They’re welcome too.

IFS supervision isn’t therapy, but it is therapeutic. It honours your humanity while strengthening your clinical wisdom. It’s a place to reconnect to your Self, not just as a practitioner but as a person holding complex, meaningful, and often emotional work.

If your inner system is asking for a little more space, a little less judgement, and a supervision experience where you don’t have to wear your “I’ve got it all together” mask, you’re in the right place.

Let’s meet your system with curiosity, compassion, and maybe even a laugh or two along the way.