Nicola Heptinstall

I am currently taking on new supervisees - both qualified counsellors and therapists and counsellors in training. My working hours are on Mondays, and Wednesdays, online and face to face in Leeds city centre on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I have some availability both online or in person at the current time.

I am a qualified supervisor holding a diploma in The Practice of Supervision, awarded by the Leeds Centre for Psychological Development.

Prior to this I completed training in supervision with Place2Be whilst working as a School Project Manager. This role involved supporting and supervising counsellors, both in training and qualified ,who were working as school based counsellors. 

In addition to my counselling / supervision work I delivered in-house training for Place2Be as well as co-training on the Level 4 Diploma for Working with Children and Young People. 

I qualified as a therapist from York St Johns University with a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2012. This was a Humanistic / Person-Centred based integrative course that encouraged us to develop our own integrative humanistic practice, drawing on theories from other modalities to enrich and inform our way of working. My practice now is still very much informed by humanistic theory but with psychodynamic theory and attachment theory woven in, particularly as a way of understanding the relational dynamics in a client’s world and the relationship between myself and a client. I carry this way of working through into my supervision practice. 

I believe supervision should meet you where you are in your practice and I offer a space in which you can feel safe, supported and held but which also allows for challenge and learning where necessary. My hope is to provide a supervision relationship within which you can discuss all aspects of your client work, be curious about and explore the relationships between you and your clients and gain insight into yourself as a therapist.

I offer collaborative supervision that supports and encourages you to grow and develop as a therapist whilst also upholding safe and ethical practice. 

I offer a free initial consultation of 30 minutes during which we can find out a little about each other, what you want from supervision and whether we are a good fit.