SUPERVISON

Emma began supervising Trainee Clinical Psychologists early in her career and since then, has always worked in roles where she has managed or supervised other mental health professionals working with adults, children and families.  She is passionate about offering a space where you can reflect on yourself, your clients and your workload. Emma has had her own great (and not so great!) experiences of supervision and it is important to her that supervision is a place where you can feel safe to bring whatever is most helpful for you to be able to support your clients effectively. 

Emma broadly uses a mentalization framework in that she is keen to firstly support your capacity to make sense of your own and your client’s behaviour by talking about what mental states (thoughts/feelings/beliefs/intentions) may be underlying that behaviour.  We would also consider your personal and professional context alongside consideration of how often stress impacts our ability to mentalize ourselves and others. 

Through working in a variety of service settings and in a number of leadership roles, Emma feels she has developed a good understanding of the variety of difficulties that supervisees bring for discussion.  She has worked in child protection services, court assessment services for families, private, charity and government organisations. Through an initial contracting process, it will be important to her to understand your particular needs. 

Emma is available for one-off supervision sessions through to longer term arrangements. 

If you would like a brief telephone chat initially to consider if she would be a good fit, please let us know, otherwise, please send your details and we can set up a time to meet. 

TRAINING

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Families

3 day workshop on Strengthening Relationships and Enhancing
Emotional Understanding

Developed at the Anna Freud Centre in London, Mentalization-Based Treatment for Families (MBT-F) is a treatment that empowers families, enhances communication, and fosters emotional understanding. 

This training is a 3 day workshop on Mentalization-Based Treatment for Families (MBT-F) which offers a practical approach to the key elements of the model. The training includes a focus on employing the core mentalizing stance with families, approaches to assessment including developing a mentalizing profile as well as the opportunity to develop specific skills and techniques for working with families from a mentalizing perspective.

Workshop Highlights:

• Learn the foundations of mentalization and its application in working with families.
• Gain insights into the impact of mentalization on child and family development, and therapeutic
  practices.
• Discover evidence-based techniques to enhance communication and resolve conflicts within the family.
• Develop strategies to promote emotional regulation and empathy among family members.
• Engage in experiential activities and role-plays to reinforce learning and facilitate real-life application.
• Network and connect with other professionals passionate about enhancing family relationships.

Who is this training suitable for?

This training is suitable for professionals working in the field of child and family mental health. Ideally, applicants should have a mental health qualification, for example, child psychotherapy, psychology, psychotherapy, arts therapies, family therapy, counselling, psychiatry, mental health nursing, social work and have experience of working therapeutically with children and families. The course assumes prior experience of therapeutic work with children. If you are unsure, please contact us to discuss further.

Please get in touch if you would like to arrange this training for your organisation.