Trauma-Informed Supervision

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If you would like to integrate trauma-informed theory and techniques into your practice, or need help with your most complex cases, I offer supervision online via Zoom. I am an Internal Family Systems Therapist and Advanced Accredited Schema Therapist, Trainer & Supervisor – I integrate these models as well as cognitive behaviour therapy, compassion-focused therapy, mindful self-compassion, somatic therapies such as polyvagal theory and Janina Fisher’s trauma-informed stabilisation treatment into my work with clients and supervisees. This is enriched by my longstanding personal and professional interest in mindfulness and Buddhism.

I teach webinars and workshops for people struggling with their mental health, as well as writing my blog, which provides a huge amount of free information about all aspects of psychology, psychotherapy, mental health and wellbeing.

Teaching

  • Founder of the Heal Your Trauma Project, which ran from 2021-23. This project offered low-cost webinars and workshops for people struggling with their mental health, covering subjects like healing from trauma, anxiety, depression, Buddhist psychology and internal family systems therapy

  • Lectured on Schema Therapy & Trauma for the Weekend University, as part of A Day on Healing Trauma

  • Taught the Schema Therapy & Trauma module of the Weekend University’s Holistic Trauma Course

  • Faculty member on the London Foundation Certificate in Counselling & Psychotherapy, teaching the CBT module for a number of years

  • Taught a two-day Introduction to Schema Therapy course for SDS Seminars Ltd

  • Taught a one-day Introduction to Schema Therapy for Communicare Counselling Service

  • Lectured on Mindfulness Skills for Stress Reduction to sixth-form students at University College School in London, for a number of years

Supervision

I can help you develop your knowledge of schema therapy and other trauma-informed, parts-based models such as internal family systems, as well as offering guidance on working with so-called ‘difficult’ clients or ‘treatment-resistant’ behaviour in therapy. I believe that the most challenging behaviour we see in our clients is simply how they learned to cope with unbearable or overwheming pain – often trauma, neglect or abuse – as children. In my own practice and with my supervisees, I try to develop a compassionate, trauma-informed understanding of these often-challenging clients.

Supervision sessions last for 60 minutes and cost £140. Typically, supervision takes place monthly, but this is flexible depending on your needs. I also offer consultation sessions, either as a one-off or whenever you need them. These focus on complex cases, stuck points or obstacles in treatment, ruptures in the therapy relationship, therapists’ personal issues triggered by the client/therapy, or any of the myriad issues that can arise when treating people struggling with complex problems.

How supervision can help

  • Formulating your clients’ problems in terms of their schemas and modes

  • Dealing with complex cases, for example clients presenting with diagnoses of personality disorders or dissociative disorders

  • Therapeutic impasses and ruptures in the relationship, or ‘treatment-resistant’ problems including anxiety disorders, depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, self-harm and suicidality

  • Working with both acute and complex trauma using the schema therapy model

  • Helping clients overcome childhood trauma, abuse or neglect

  • Using experiential techniques such as chair work, imagery rescripting and relational techniques

  • Therapist burnout and managing the impact of trauma and complex cases on your own mental health

  • Integrating schema therapy with other psychotherapy models, especially parts-based models like internal family systems

If you are interested in having supervision with me, email dan@danroberts.com or use the contact form to get in touch.

Warm wishes,

Dan