Susan Osborne

I currently have availability for new clients.

I offer sessions Monday to Thursday 9.00 - 1.00 and 5.30 -7.

I offer supervision in  the form of planned, regular and boundaried conversations according to your needs providing:

Space to bring your unanswered questions and talk frankly about your work.

Restoring space to address your growing edges, and your own needs as a practitioner.

Growing space for garnering psychological insight and developing better practice.

Challenging space where you can consider safeguarding and the ethical dimension of your work.

Celebratory space where you can acknowledge your achievements.

Reflective space where you can consider your work and your vocation within the context of your faith or spiritual understanding.

Playful space where you can work creatively and access your hidden wisdom.

Safe space defined by an agreed confidentiality contract.

I offer face-to-face sessions in Ramsey.  I also offer supervision via Zoom, telephone or email.

'Out beyond right-doing and wrong-doing ... I'll meet you there' (Rumi).  

I aim to build supervisory relationships where I can work respectfully and non-judgementally,in a spirit of collaberation, with those who come to me for hep.  I work from a person-centred base, so that I work with colleagues to facilitate a process of insight and reflection on their work.  Where helpful, I offer my own insights and refer clients to books, ideas and research which they might find helpful.  Supervisees report that they have found our sessions both energising and cathartic. 

As with counselling, supervision is available indoors in a comfortable room, or outdoors, in a beautiful space where we can work confidentially and without interruption.

In preparation for our first session, I email my supervision agreement, my data protection statement and my on-line working statement.  This gives potential supervisees some information which will form the basis of our first contracting conversation.  

Firstly, we will talk over the supervisee's issues and priorities for supervision.  Then we will cover practical issues like confidentiality, contact arrangements, frequency of meeting and costs.  We will check for any overlapping relationships and consider any possible impact on our work.    I will explain what it means in my practice to work to the BACP Ethical Framework.

Finally I will emphasise my intention to honour the supervisee's trust and always to treat the supervisee with respect as an adult capable of taking responsibility for her/his work.

I have availability for new clients.

I offer sessions Monday to Thursday mornings 9.00 - 1.00.  I  can also  an evening meeting 5-6 on these days.

I see therapy as a process of unfolding self-diagnosis.  So, I will invite you to talk about the issues which are troubling you.  Listening carefully, I will try to ask  helpful questions so we can get a clearer understanding of the challenges you face.    The sessions are designed to get you thinking.  My experience is that, as the weeks go by, you can uncover strengths and possibilities.  These were often there with you already but perhaps you hadn’t seen them.

Through this practice of patient exploration, you will discover new resources in yourself.  You will be in a better position to make changes.  Either in terms of what you do, or how you look at things.

Part of therapy is helping people to shine the light on what they are already doing to help themselves.  It is also about helping them to find new helping strategies or practices.  For example, depending on the client, I find it can be helpful to offer poems which relate to their experience, or to develop with them a practice of reflective writing; or to encourage them in a habit of noticing and attending to the natural world.

Before we meet, I will send you a copy of my client/counsellor agreement  and my data protection statement.  This is so you have some information before we start work together, and it forms starting point for our first conversation about how we will work together.  

We begin by finding out what you are hoping to address in your therapy.  What would you like to change in your life? What is causing you difficulty or disturbing your thoughts?   We will talk a little bit about any previous experiences of counselling, and what you found helpful (or unhelpful).  Importantly, we will talk also about confidentiality, contact arrangements, frequency of meeting and fees.  I will explain that I hold to the BACP's framework for ethical practice.

Continuing, we will look at how the issue you are bringing fits into your wider life and past history and current relationships.  We consider any self-care practices or helping strategies you might already already have tried.

If it is helpful, we talk about your spirituality and how it relates to the issue you are bringing.

I explain a little how talking therapy works. I introduce the possibility of working creatively with your own writing, or with poetry and we decide whether or not you like the sound of that!  Throughout, we respect your priorities.

We end with a little review: we consider briefly our work together during this first session and ask ourselves whether we felt comfortable working together?   Could we imagine doing some good work together?  If so, we arrange to meet again.