About me

My own first-hand experience of the value of supervision from day one as a qualified interpreter has led me to train and qualify as a professional supervisor (2020). I believe that a safe space to critically reflect on our professional practice is a vital part of building resilience and laying the foundation for a sustainable and fulfilling career as an interpreter. This includes examining how our personality, relationships and lives interact with our work. Most importantly supervision should support us becoming the best practitioner we can be, to the benefit of those who use our services.

I trained as a supervisor alongside counsellors and therapists and I am now a qualified integrative counsellor and coach registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. The skills included in those disciplines have rounded out and informed my supervision practice in a unique way, and equip me with a very broad range of tools and techniques to support each supervisee.

In my counselling work I provide trauma therapy and therefore have an awareness of the complex impact of trauma on all aspects of life. I am trauma responsive in all my work. I am confident working with a range of neurodiversity, and I am neurodiverse myself (ADHD).

I’m happy to provide supervision in either English or BSL. I work online. If requested I can work face to face where an organisation or group wants to book in person sessions and can facilitate a confidential accessible space for this.

Contact me to arrange a session.

(I also offer supervision to other professionals in what are often called the “helper” professions including workers in Charities, social care and education who often experience ethical dilemmas, are exposed to vicarious trauma and risk of burnout in a similar way to that commonly reported in the interpreting profession.)