Lorna Harvey

Alongside my psychotherapy practice, I offer clinical supervision to qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, trainee practitioners and therapeutic professionals working across education, residential care, healthcare and community settings.

I am a fully qualified Clinical Supervisor, trained through the Manchester School of Psychotherapy, and bring extensive experience from senior clinical leadership roles. As a Clinical Lead and Senior Psychotherapist, I have managed and developed therapeutic teams, provided reflective practice and consultation, and supported practitioners working with highly complex and vulnerable client groups.

My supervision style is collaborative, supportive and appropriately challenging. I aim to create a reflective space where practitioners can develop confidence, strengthen clinical thinking and maintain ethical, effective practice. I believe high-quality supervision should support both professional growth and personal resilience.

A particular area of expertise is trauma-informed practice, informed by many years of therapeutic work within specialist education and residential care settings. I have extensive experience supporting practitioners working with complex trauma, attachment difficulties, neurodevelopmental differences, emotional regulation challenges and safeguarding concerns.

For experienced practitioners, supervision can also provide a valuable space for career development. I particularly enjoy supporting therapists and psychological practitioners who are considering progression into senior, specialist or management roles. This may include developing leadership skills, organisational dynamics, managing teams or exploring new career opportunities within clinical services.

I am fortunate enough to have received positive feedback from colleagues and professionals throughout my career. Professional recommendations and testimonials can be viewed via my LinkedIn profile.

Supervision is available online throughout the UK

I am a fully qualified psychotherapist with extensive experience supporting children, young people, adults and families within private practice and across both clinical and educational settings.

Alongside my private practice, I've held senior leadership positions as a Clinical Lead and Senior Psychotherapist, leading multidisciplinary therapeutic teams within specialist education and residential provisions for some of the UK's most vulnerable children and young people. Throughout my career, I have worked with individuals experiencing a wide range of emotional, behavioural and psychological difficulties, helping them develop greater understanding, resilience and emotional wellbeing.

I hold a BA (Hons) in Psychotherapy and an MSc in Psychology, combining in-depth psychotherapeutic training with a strong evidence-based understanding of human behaviour and brain health. I have also led the implementation and development of neurodevelopmental programmes within large organisations, supporting professionals, families and young people in understanding and responding to neurodevelopmental differences.

My approach is warm, collaborative and tailored to the individual. I believe that therapy should provide a safe, non-judgemental space where you can explore difficulties at your own pace, whether you are experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, relationship challenges, trauma, loss, low self-esteem or feeling stuck in life.

I offer online therapy throughout the UK and face-to-face sessions from my private therapy space in Birkdale, providing a calm and confidential environment in which to work together.

Finding the right therapist is an important decision. I welcome initial enquiries and am happy to discuss how therapy might help you decide whether we are a good fit.

Within our first session together I will be information gathering and allowing you to share what you would like us to focus on in our time together. Following the information sharing in this session I'll put together a therapeutic formulation which will shape the following sessions if I feel this to be helpful to the process. With children I'll spend some time with them and their parent(s)/guardian before I complete a children's wellbeing assessment which will help us to identify specific areas of concern and to reflect on progress together throughout the therapy program.