Lisa Smith

I currently work Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays 9am until 4pm, This is to either directly in person or online.  I do offer Monday evenings 6pm until 8pm (only online). 

I presently only have availability for daytime appointments.

I only offer concessionary rates to Student Counsellors, which would be set at £40.00p per hour, as I was once a Student counsellor offered a concessionary rate, which I greatly appreciated.

I have worked as a Counsellor since qualifying in 2012 in private practice. I worked as Counsellor at Lincoln college for 6 years, 4 of those as the lead Counsellor.  I am also a qualified Social worker and Play Therapist.

I work in a holistic manner, I have a great deal of experience and knowledge and this helps me to make a client/supervisee feel comfortable.

 I use a lot of art materials and creative things to help my clients/supervisee's reflect on the issues.  In my practice I work with Children, young people and adults.  A great deal of my practice has been working with Fostering and Adoption and specialising in Attachment, Trauma and dissociation and I am also trained in EMDR and a Foundational Theraplay practitioner.

I am a warm and friendly person and use humour and really enjoy my work.

I would like to have a telephone conversation with the Supervisee prior to arranging any Supervision Sessions and I would email them my therapeutic contract for the agreed work, be very clear that this contract is for Supervision and not Counselling. I would also email them a little description about how I work and my video consent form for online working. 

I do use drawing and therapeutic tools to help explore any problems arising for the Supervisee, as well as talking.

I always schedule appointments and I would like at least 48 hours notice for any cancellations, or a non attendance charge will be made the Supervision cost.

I will firstly like a telephone call or Zoom call with a Supervisee. To see if it is a good fit.  

The first session would be going through the emailed Therapeutic Supervision Contract, outlining expectations for both of us.  

I would need to know if they were a student, which college, university they were attending, which year they were in, who was their contact person for their training.