Trauma-Informed Supervision
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If you would like to integrate schema-therapy theory and techniques into your practice, or need help with your most complex cases, I offer supervision online via Zoom. I also provide workshops for mental-health professionals, as well as lecturing on schema therapy and working with trauma/complex cases.
I am an Advanced Accredited Schema Therapist, Trainer & Supervisor, Internal Family Systems Therapist and Integrative Trauma Therapist. I also draw from a wide range of highly effective, trauma-informed models in my work with clients and supervisees, including cognitive behaviour therapy, compassion-focused therapy, mindful self-compassion, somatic therapies such as polyvagal theory and Janina Fisher’s trauma-informed stabilisation treatment. This is enriched by my longstanding personal and professional interest in mindfulness and Buddhism.
I teach webinars and workshops for people struggling with their mental health, as well as writing my blog, which provides a huge amount of free information about all aspects of psychology, psychotherapy, mental health and wellbeing.
Teaching
Founder of the Heal Your Trauma Project, which ran from 2021-23. This project offered low-cost webinars and workshops for people struggling with their mental health, covering subjects like healing from trauma, anxiety, depression, Buddhist psychology and internal family systems therapy
Lectured on Schema Therapy & Trauma for the Weekend University, as part of A Day on Healing Trauma
Taught the Schema Therapy & Trauma module of the Weekend University’s Holistic Trauma Course
Faculty member on the London Foundation Certificate in Counselling & Psychotherapy, teaching the CBT module for a number of years
Taught a two-day Introduction to Schema Therapy course for SDS Seminars Ltd
Taught a one-day Introduction to Schema Therapy for Communicare Counselling Service
Lectured on Mindfulness Skills for Stress Reduction to sixth-form students at University College School in London, for a number of years
Supervision
I can help you develop your knowledge of schema therapy, as well as offering guidance on working with so-called ‘difficult’ clients or ‘treatment-resistant’ behaviour in therapy. I believe that all of the most challenging behaviour we see in our clients is simply how they learned to cope with unbearable or overwheming pain – often trauma, neglect or abuse – as children. In my own practice and with my supervisees, I try to develop a compassionate, trauma-informed understanding of these often-challenging clients.
Supervision sessions last for 60 minutes and cost £140. Typically, supervision takes place monthly, but this is flexible depending on your needs. I also offer consultation sessions, either as a one-off or whenever you need them. These focus on complex cases, stuck points or obstacles in treatment, ruptures in the therapy relationship, therapists’ personal issues triggered by the client/therapy, or any of the myriad issues that can arise when treating people struggling with complex problems.
How supervision can help
Formulating your clients’ problems in terms of their schemas and modes
Dealing with complex cases, for example clients presenting with diagnoses of personality disorders or dissociative disorders
Therapeutic impasses and ruptures in the relationship, or ‘treatment-resistant’ problems including anxiety disorders, depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, self-harm and suicidality
Working with both acute and complex trauma using the schema therapy model
Helping clients overcome childhood trauma, abuse or neglect
Using experiential techniques such as chair work, imagery rescripting and relational techniques
Therapist burnout and managing the impact of trauma and complex cases on your own mental health
Integrating schema therapy with other psychotherapy models, especially parts-based models like internal family systems
If you are interested in having supervision with me, email dan@danroberts.com or use the contact form to get in touch.
Warm wishes,
Dan