Diploma in the Clinical Supervision of Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapy and Counselling

About the training

Enhance your professional practice by becoming a qualified supervisor, equipped to support practitioners working with children, adolescents and adults.

This integrative training draws on psychodynamic thinking, attachment theory and neuroscience, while recognising the unique power of the arts as both conscious and unconscious forms of communication. Central to the programme is a collegial, rather than hierarchical, supervisory relationship. This approach fosters a safe, trusting environment in which openness and transparency support deep reflection on both personal process and supervisee work.

Each training day is delivered by a specialist trainer with extensive expertise in the relevant subject areas. The programme runs over four months, allowing participants time to develop supervisory skills and complete the required 30 supervised hours of supervision prior to assessment.

Course content

• Foundations of Supervision: Definitions, purposes, functions and boundaries. The supervisory frame, roles and responsibilities
• Supervisory Tasks & Development: Education, support and monitoring. Working with supervisee developmental stages. Recognising and working effectively with transference and countertransference, including triggers to the supervisee’s material.
• Different Supervision Models: Relational supervision. Developmental supervision. Attachment-based supervision.
• Supervision Skills: Contracting and goal-setting. 
Building and maintaining the supervisory relationship. Feedback, process, beginnings and endings.
• Power, Difference & Diversity: Power dynamics 
in supervision. Race, culture, identity and anti-oppressive practice.
• Special Focus and Professional Dilemmas: Confidentiality. Working with rupture, enactments, 
and repair. Work within school and other organisations. Working 1:1, groups, online and trainee supervision. Creative approaches to supervision.
• Practice & Assessment Live Supervision Practice: Developing a personal model of supervisory theory and practice. Evaluation of client needs, risk assessment, safeguarding, ethical and legal responsibilities.

Tutors

Liz Murray-Bligh

UKCP-registered Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and trained Supervisor (The Gestalt Centre, London). Fifteen years’ experience working systemically with students, engaging with families, schools, and external agencies. Placement supervisor for IATE students.

Clair Lewoski

UKCP-registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist and HCPC-registered Dramatherapist. Over 28 years’ clinical experience. Master’s degree with Distinction from the Tavistock Clinic. Worked in education, CAMHS and arts-therapies trauma outreach services, specialising in Looked After Children. Established a therapy service across ten primary schools in the North of England funded by The Children’s Fund. In private practice in Cambridge and a Mentalization-Based Family Treatment Practitioner. Senior Lecturer on MA Integrative Child Psychotherapy MA at IATE; group and individual training supervisor and assessor.

Nikki Jecks

UKCP-registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist and Supervisor, also registered with BACP. Works with young people and families in schools, private practice, and residential children’s homes. Pastoral Tutor and Infant Observation Tutor on the MA Child Psychotherapy at IATE. Produces talks and symposia for MINDinMIND, a global psychotherapy forum. Previously worked as a BBC and NPR journalist, and developed UN programmes supporting survivors of gender-based violence.

Liz Ronan

Qualified Social Worker with over 25 years’ experience. Independent Reviewing Officer for a local authority, chairing Child Protection Conferences, Looked After Children’s Reviews, and Adoption Reviews. Independent trainer and consultant specialising in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. Member of IATE staff since 2007, teaching and evaluating safeguarding modules and serving on the Ethics Committee. Experience spans safeguarding, Looked After Children’s teams, Family Futures Adoption Support Agency, and CAMHS, supporting families affected by attachment difficulties and complex trauma.

Megan Holland

UKCP-registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist
and Clinical Supervisor. Works in the long-term therapies team at Portsmouth CAMHS, leading the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and DDP pathway and supervising across the service. Previously Senior Psychotherapist at Family Futures Fostering and Adoption Agency, led a school-based psychotherapy service in North London, and worked at King’s College Hospital with children and families experiencing complex psychiatric presentations and post-cancer treatment.

Paul Cutler

UKCP-registered Child Psychotherapist with over 30 years’ experience working with children and adults. Works psychotherapeutically with children aged 3-19 and families using the Marlborough multi-family therapy model. Training supervisor and tutor at IATE, teaching Infant Observation and contributing to Diplomas in Child and Teenage Counselling. Former member of the UKCP Children and Young People’s Ethics Committee and trained BASE Babywatching Group Leader and Mentor.

Jo Moon

UKCP registered Integrative Child Psychotherapist. Over 20 years clinical experience working with adults, teenagers and children presenting with trauma, attachment-related difficulties, anxiety, depression, and complex emotional distress. Extensive work in schools and in the Violence against Women and Girls sector (aged 4-24). Trained Supervisor and Senior Trainer at IATE. Particular research interest: working with anti-oppressive practice & decolonising therapy, trauma and ecotherapy. Also, professional storyteller.

Anne-Marie Reid

Systemic Individual, Couples and Family Psychotherapist, Consultant and Supervisor with over 20 years’ experience across therapeutic, educational, community and creative settings. Trained in Integrative Arts Child Counselling, Systemic Psychotherapy and Creative Supervision. Integrates systemic, narrative, attachment and creative approaches. Provides psychotherapy, supervision and consultation, and delivers training on reflective, anti-oppressive and social justice-informed practice.

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