Ceri Westcott

I am aware that I cannot possibly be the right supervisor for everyone. But I think we would be a good fit if you are: 

• Interested in both community and individual wellbeing
• Working with children, families or education settings
• Working in an integrative, creative way; 
• Interested in thinking deeply, whilst also connecting to your body; 
• Interested in how wellbeing is influenced by both our inner and outer worlds;
•  Exploring organisational wellbeing dynamics

I am committed to reflective practice that is compassionate, creative and courageous and offer clinical supervision to trainees, qualified therapists and also to professionals from other sectors who have a helping role. I specialise in supporting supervisees who are supporting children and families and/or working with education settings.

Before training as a therapist I worked for more than ten years in local authority children's services with children looked after and children with SEND. After qualifying, I worked for several years in the domestic abuse sector developing and delivering therapeutic services for safe-parents and children.  I have extensive experience of providing training on domestic abuse and trauma-informed practice.  Alongside my private practice I am conducting PhD research into teacher wellbeing, exploring the systemic as well as individual factors that impact teacher wellbeing.

I take a pluralistic approach to supervision, drawing on the theoretical approaches that best meet the needs of you and your clients. In particular I make use of compassion focussed therapy; psychodynamic concepts such as countertransference and defenses; creative and play based approaches and critical theory.

My hope is that in supervision we can co-create a ‘brave space’; a place that can slow things down in order to look at them closely, a relational and creative space that builds growth and also requires candour and curiosity. If this is what you are looking for in supervision then please do reach out and we can explore how we might work together.