Wendy Hooker

Supervision is a collaborative process which allows counsellors and psychotherapists the space to reflect on their work and continuing professional development to ensure safe, ethical and competent practice.

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My supervision style is warm, open and supportive with a commitment to building an authentic and meaningful relationship in which the therapist feels safe, respected, heard and supported to share their clinical work.

My supervision practice focuses on;

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Client Well-being: Ensuring that the therapy given to clients meets professional and ethical standards

Skills Development: Helping the therapist to enhance their therapeutic skills, case formulation, and intervention strategies

Professional Identity: Supporting the therapists’ growth as a reflective, competent and autonomous practitioner

Accountability: Providing oversight and guidance where necessary to ensure that clinical practice aligns with ethical and legal obligations

Emotional Support: Offering a safe space to process emotional reactions, promote self-care, identifying potential signs of burnout and reducing isolation when working in private practice

I provide both short and long term work with flexible appointments covering day times and evenings.

I am a highly experienced, registered, accredited Integrative psychotherapist and supervisor. My core training is Humanistic, CBT and Psychodynamic. I have undertaken further training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy. 

My therapeutic approach is very much focused on you and working at your pace and we will look at tools and strategies from a range of therapeutic approaches which are best suited to your needs.

I have extensive experience of supporting people through a wide range of emotional and psychological difficulties and believe in the importance of building genuine and transparent relationships, working at relational depth to help facilitate change. The issues I work with are many and varied and clients goals are fundamentally 'to feel better' and live a more enriched and fuller life. How this is achieved and the therapeutic strategies employed will be unique and individual to every client.

I believe in the importance of working from an authentic and transparent standpoint connecting with people on a meaningful level, with a genuine understanding of some of the difficulties they may be facing. My therapeutic practice focuses on enabling you to work through the issues that may be holding you back and move towards a brighter future.

I been in practice over 20 years and have worked with many people with a wide variety of issues. During our first session together, we will begin to devise a working formulation of your difficulties and explore which therapeutic approaches may be best suited to helping you feel better, in whatever way that may look like for you.