Carin Shine

As a Humanistic Counsellor I believe that we are all born with the potential to lead a fulfilling life given the right conditions to thrive. Often, through challenging life events or difficult childhood experiences, our ability to grow and thrive is diminished.

My role as Counsellor is to provide the right conditions for clients to explore and understand feelings of discontent or disillusionment, unresolved issues, anxiety and stress, etc, that may be causing them to feel stuck or wanting to change. Counselling can ultimately allow people to feel they have more control and more choices about how they want to live their life, increase self-esteem and live a more genuine and authentic life.

I work either in-person in both Queens Park NW6 and Kensal Rise, NW10, or via Zoom, or a combination of both. I offer a free 15 minute assessment session via Zoom in order for me to understand what is bringing you to counselling at this point in your life and for you to decide if I am the right Counsellor for you.

If you would like to go ahead, at this point we would find a suitable time for weekly sessions (which are 50 minutes long).

I am based in Kensal Rise, NW10 and work either face-to-face or on Zoom, or a combination of both.

I have been a Clinical Supervisor since 2006 and whilst my roots are in Person-Centred practice, I work in an integrative approach, including creative supervision, and am experienced in working successfully with practitioners from many different orientations.

I have a great interest in the professional and personal development of counsellors and supporting their engagement with clients through deepening their understanding of the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship. The more the therapist is themselves in the relationship, genuine and authentic, the greater is the likelihood that the client will change and grow in a constructive manner.

Supervision for counsellors is an ethical requirement in order to maintain good practice and continued professional development. Clinical Supervision provides an exploratory space for practitioners to reflect on their work, explore ethical and safeguarding issues, consider their own continuing professional development and feel supported and held throughout their process.

As well as supervising adult work, I have extensive experience supervising clinical work with children and young people, having worked for the children's mental health charity Place2Be for 16 years as a School Project Manager, Trainer and Programme Leader.  I then moved into the role of Head of Learning, overseeing all clinical training for staff and counsellors on placement, and counselling training from Level 2 through to Post Graduate Diploma.

I have a Diploma in Clinical Supervision and alongside my private practice supporting practitioners working with adults, children and young people I am an approved supervisor on Metanoia Institute's BSc (Hons) Person-Centred Pluralistic Counselling course,  Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression course and BSc Humanistic Counselling course.

I offer an intial 15 minute free zoom session so that we can meet to discuss your work and decide if we are the right fit to work together.