Supervision for practitioners who don’t quite fit the mould - and don’t want to
I offer supervision to psychologists and practitioners working at the intersection of performance, psychology, and the body - particularly those who feel constrained by orthodox models, narrow frameworks, or professional cultures that leave little room for depth, nuance, or humanity.
Many of the people I supervise are excellent at what they do - and also pretty frustrated. They know how to “do the job,” but feel something is missing. They want to practise with integrity, creativity, and care without burning out, flattening themselves, or pretending to believe things they simply don’t.
If that resonates, you’re probably in the right place.
Who my supervision is for
Primary focus
I explicitly specialise in supervising early-career:
Sport and Exercise Psychologists
Performance Psychologists working outside traditional structures
This includes practitioners who work independently, across disciplines, or in contexts where standardised models don’t quite hold.
Also welcome
I also supervise:
Therapists working with high performers
Psychologists whose work sits at the interface of mind and body
Psychologically sophisticated coaches, physiotherapists, and other allied health professionals
Trainee sport and exercise psychologists who feel disillusioned with the field and want something more therapeutically grounded
What matters most to me is not your title, but how you think, how you practise, and how willing you are to reflect.
My supervision philosophy
I take supervision seriously, not as a procedural requirement, but as a developmental, ethical, and relational space.
At its core, my approach to supervision is about helping you clarify how you make sense of your work, what you believe about people, change, suffering, performance, and responsibility, and how those beliefs show up in practice.
You won’t hear me talking in abstract philosophical jargon unless you ask me to. But we will explore questions like:
What are you actually doing when you work with someone?
What assumptions are guiding your decisions (whether you realise it or not)?
Where are you working from habit, training, or fear rather than choice?
What does good practice mean for you, in the real world you work in?
Supervision with me attends to:
The person of the practitioner - including your body, nervous system, identity, and limits
Ethical depth beyond risk management - not just “what’s allowed,” but what’s responsible
Sustainability and anti-burnout - how to practise without eroding yourself
Somatic and embodied dimensions of the work - because bodies don’t disappear in supervision
Critical reflection on dominant paradigms in psychology and sport psychology
Permission not to know, not to conform, and not to prematurely resolve complexity
I am deeply interested in supervision as a space for thinking well under uncertainty - what philosophers sometimes call aporia. Not knowing is not a failure here; it’s often where the most honest work begins.
How I supervise
I am not a formulaic supervisor, and I am not a passive one either.
I aim to be:
Holding and reflective, creating enough safety for honest exploration
Challenging and stretching, where I think growth is being avoided
Philosophically provocative, when your assumptions need interrogating
Sense-making, when things feel messy or overwhelming
I am rarely directive unless you explicitly ask for it - and even then, I’ll usually want to understand why you want direction before offering it.
Supervision with me is collaborative, responsive, and shaped by you. Over time, my aim is to help you develop a practice that is internally coherent, ethically robust, and genuinely livable.
Who I am not a good fit for
This matters, so I’ll be clear.
I am probably not the right supervisor for you if:
You are looking to simply “get supervision done” because you have to
You want supervision that is purely technical, procedural, or tick-box
You work strictly from protocols or formulaic models and want help applying them
You are uncomfortable with embodied or experiential dimensions of practice
There are excellent supervisors for those needs - I’m just not one of them.
I think supervision is a rare and powerful space. If you’re here, I want it to matter.
Practical details
Format: Online only
Individual supervision:
60 minutes
Monthly
£100 per hour
Group supervision:
Available ad hoc
Minimum 90 minutes
Same hourly rate
I work with supervisees based in the UK, EU, and internationally.
Supervision for SEPAR / CASES trainees
I am a recognised supervisor within the SEPAR CASES training pathway for trainee sport and exercise psychologists.
My particular focus within this pathway is supporting trainees who want to develop therapeutic competence, especially where mental health, trauma, and psychotherapy intersect with performance contexts.
While I can support performance-related work, my primary interest lies in supervising trainees who:
Already have experience within mental health settings, or
Want to meaningfully develop this aspect of their practice alongside performance work
At present, I have no availability for new CASES trainees, but I will update this page as and when spaces open.
If you are considering this pathway, I strongly recommend familiarising yourself with the relevant SEPAR training requirements and expectations.
What it’s like to work with me
I’ll be honest.
Sometimes supervision with me creates more destabilisation before it creates clarity. Assumptions get questioned. Familiar ways of working stop feeling quite right. That can be uncomfortable.
But what I consistently see is that, over time, practitioners leave supervision with me feeling more congruent - more aligned in how they think, practise, and position themselves in the world.
You may feel less certain before you feel more at home. That’s not a flaw in the process - it is the process.
Next steps
If this page resonates, you’re welcome to get in touch to explore whether working together would be a good fit.
Supervision is a relationship, not a transaction - and it matters that it feels right on both sides.