I provide also professional mentoring to counsellors and others in the caring professions. Mentoring can have various points of focus. I can help you with:
1) Your work
I work with helping professionals who want to introduce or deepen the existential or philosophical dimensions of their work. Perhaps you have read Frankl or Yalom and want to bring a more existential dimension to your work. More generally, you may want to explore the values that are present in your work, or to nourish your sense of meaning and purpose as a professional.
2) Your experience of your work
I help also with respect to your experience and well-being in your work. Burn-out, compassion fautigue, vicarious trauma and the like are constant risks in the helfping professions. I help people with the skills to diminish these risks or ameliorate the harm. At a deeper level than such skills and practices, many of us are drawn to our work through a sense of empathy, purpose, meaning and value - I support helping professionals to deepen their connection and nourishment with such things.
3) Who you are in your work
In counselling, the common factors research reveals that it is more important who clients see, than the theoretical allegiance of the professional. Who you are, and how you are, in your work matters greatly. I help you to develop your self as this level.
4) Developing your career, or private practice
Mentoring can support people in creating a career that is more gratifying for themselves. This may take the form of understanding your strengths and values, to help you steer yourself onto more sustainable and gratifying trajectory in your work. Alternatively, I often support counsellors in setting up or growing a private practice. I support helping professionals to clarify their passion, find the clients they best serve, and to make their career/business work.
1) Your work
I work with helping professionals who want to introduce or deepen the existential or philosophical dimensions of their work. Perhaps you have read Frankl or Yalom and want to bring a more existential dimension to your work. More generally, you may want to explore the values that are present in your work, or to nourish your sense of meaning and purpose as a professional.
2) Your experience of your work
I help also with respect to your experience and well-being in your work. Burn-out, compassion fautigue, vicarious trauma and the like are constant risks in the helfping professions. I help people with the skills to diminish these risks or ameliorate the harm. At a deeper level than such skills and practices, many of us are drawn to our work through a sense of empathy, purpose, meaning and value - I support helping professionals to deepen their connection and nourishment with such things.
3) Who you are in your work
In counselling, the common factors research reveals that it is more important who clients see, than the theoretical allegiance of the professional. Who you are, and how you are, in your work matters greatly. I help you to develop your self as this level.
4) Developing your career, or private practice
Mentoring can support people in creating a career that is more gratifying for themselves. This may take the form of understanding your strengths and values, to help you steer yourself onto more sustainable and gratifying trajectory in your work. Alternatively, I often support counsellors in setting up or growing a private practice. I support helping professionals to clarify their passion, find the clients they best serve, and to make their career/business work.
Mentoring may be tax deductible for you - please speak to your accountant. It should be noted that mentoring is not clinical or therapeutic supervision.