SUPERVISION

Supervision that keeps clinicians psychically alive to the work

Individual supervision for psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts working with the general adult population — and specialist small groups for the same, working with complex trauma (CPTSD) and/or neurodivergence. Attachment-rooted, politically awake, somatically grounded, and built to keep the work from going dead on you.

Individual & Group Supervision · Psychodynamic · Parts Work · Somatic · Neuroaffirmative

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Individual supervision

I came into this field through lived experience first and professional formation second. Both matter equally to how I supervise — alongside the somatic, the playful, the political, and the deeply personal.

Supervision with me holds the clinical material closely: the body in the room, the parts activated, what the countertransference is actually doing. And it holds the clinician too — who they are, what they're carrying, and where they are in a career with its own arc and meaning. Genograms, somatic attention and parts-based approaches are woven through the work. So is a genuinely neuroaffirmative lens — attending to how a client's nervous system, sensory world, and relational style shape everything, and how rarely clinical training equips people to think in this way. I keep intersectionality explicitly in the room, seriously and playfully, because both registers are necessary.

At some point I usually ask:

Is the work you are doing now work that the version of you who first wanted to do this would feel proud of at retirement? Not the ideal clinician of someone else's imagining. The one you actually set out to become.

Everything else tends to organise around that question because it helps us as clinicians access the warmth and depth we need to help people better.

What individual supervision offers

It depends entirely on the relationship of course but often:

01 · Arrival, held

However you land — wired, quiet, full or depleted — that's where we begin. Something in the supervisory relationship itself does the holding too, so what happens here often finds its way into how you hold your own clients.

02 · What's live for you

Whatever is actually present in your work right now. A difficult client, a therapeutic impasse, a moment that won't leave you alone, uncertainty about your direction, or simply the feeling that something important is happening but you can't yet name it. Bring it as it is, not tidied up first.

03 · Slowing down to see clearly

The exact word chosen. The one left unsaid. The pause. The shift in posture. What the body knew before the mind did. We slow the work down enough for its deeper structure to become visible.

04 · What it moved in you

Your own history, body and politics are part of the clinical instrument. Together we think about countertransference, activated parts, blind spots and strengths, alongside where your practice itself wants to stretch — whether that's bringing relational thinking into psychodynamic work, attachment into IFS or EMDR, or integrating newer ways of understanding trauma, neurodivergence and the nervous system.

05 · Held inside the bigger picture

Individual cases never exist in isolation. We think alongside developments in trauma research, neuroscience, dissociation, parts work, liberatory psychology, survivor knowledge and mad and crip scholarship — always asking what genuinely serves the person in front of us rather than simply following fashion.

I love supervising people from trainees to national leads.

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Complex CPTSD / ND specialist supervision group

I run specialist small groups for therapists holding complex trauma caseloads — people whose work demands they move fluidly between the somatic and the relational, the intrapsychic and the political. The groups are designed to keep clinicians connected to why the work matters, offering protected time to think carefully about what's happening in the room: in the body of the client, in the therapist's own parts, and in the space between. Each group is warm and nourishing as well as intellectually rigorous, and tends to consist of 3–5 therapists, weaving attachment-based therapy with parts work, somatic awareness, polyvagal theory, and liberatory frameworks into cutting-edge clinical practice.

What it feels like to be in it is harder to put on a list. There is a particular relief in a room where you don't have to translate yourself — where you can speak for a part that got activated in a session, or name the political weight pressing on a piece of work, or admit you went somewhere in the countertransference you're not proud of, and be met with curiosity rather than correction. Complex trauma work is isolating; much of it cannot be spoken about anywhere else. The group is built to be the place where it can be — thought about slowly, held by people doing the same work, without anyone having to perform being further along than they are.

The aim isn't simply better formulations or better interventions, but helping each clinician stay psychically alive to the work over the long arc of a career.

What the group offers

01 · Grounded arrival
Each session opens with a short guided meditation — landing in the body, noticing parts, arriving before the thinking begins. Space to check in with what each person is carrying.

02 · Deep case consultation
Detailed formulation and process discussion. Telescoping in and out — from the fine grain of a somatic moment or a parts interaction, to the arc of the therapeutic relationship and the political context that shapes it.

03 · Countertransference as data
Using parts awareness and somatic tracking to think about what the therapist's own system is responding to — and what that reveals about the client's inner world and relational history.

04 · Monthly reading thread
One paper per month, chosen together, integrating CPTSD with parts work, polyvagal science, liberatory psychology, and mad and crip knowledges. Theory that touches practice.

The reading thread

Reading includes: structural dissociation, window of tolerance, developmental repair · IFS and parts work integrated with trauma-informed relational practice · polyvagal theory and its clinical applications beyond the basics · liberatory psychology: race, power and structural harm in the consulting room · mad and crip knowledges — what survivor epistemology offers clinical thinking · neurodivergence, PDA profiles, and the relational dynamics of autistic and ADHD clients.

To express your interest

To enquire about individual supervision, joining a specialist group, or approaching as a small group of your own, you're welcome to get in touch directly. Email jay@jaywatts.co.uk