Group supervision for the third sector

Supervision from someone who’s been in your shoes

I offer group supervision specifically for frontline workers in third-sector organisations, using anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, and social justice frameworks.

Naturally, teams support each other in informal ways through quick debriefs after a session or during downtime. Group supervision builds on this organic support to share your team’s knowledge and experience. This shared understanding helps you spot themes across your caseload, identify blind spots, and develop strategies together.

I understand this work from the inside: I spent over a decade in the third sector as a support worker before training as a therapist and supervisor. I know what it’s like to hold trauma stories while navigate under-resourcing.

My supervision creates space for your team to:

• Process difficult cases and ethical dilemmas together
• Explore vicarious trauma and sustainable practice
• Develop reflective capacity and professional resilience
• Build stronger team cohesion through shared learning
• Reconnect with what anchors you in this work
• Process losses

Outcomes/benefits (what your team gets from this)

In group supervision, your team will:

• Understand the prevalence and impact of issues across your service (not just isolated cases)
• Share effective strategies for similar situations and learn from each other’s approaches
• Explore attitudes, biases, and beliefs that shape your work with clients
• Process vicarious trauma and burnout collectively, reducing isolation
• Identify patterns and themes in your team’s caseload
• Support each other with compassion and practical wisdom
• Create action plans for handling similar challenges in future
• Strengthen team cohesion and mutual support

For managers: Group supervision also supports you. You’re not alone in overseeing the team’s wellbeing – the space creates shared responsibility for noticing when someone’s struggling, celebrating what’s working, and addressing what’s not.

What to expect in a session?

Each 2-hour group supervision session creates space for your team to bring what’s most alive in their work.

This may look like:

• Structured debriefing and offloading
• Space for reflective practice
• Space for brainstorming
• Action plans
• Strategies for staying grounded in difficult work

Sessions are structured but responsive to what you bring and how the team feels on the day: I follow the Page and Wosket cyclical model, which helps us move between reflection, understanding, and action. But the content is always led by what your team needs most in that moment.

The space is confidential, collaborative, and free from judgment. You’ll leave with greater clarity, renewed connection to your work, and practical support for the challenges you’re facing.

My approach

Anti-oppressive and feminist: We’ll explore issues of power, privilege, and oppression both in your work with clients and within the supervisory space itself.

Trauma-informed and somatically aware: I bring attention to how holding trauma impacts our bodies, not just our minds. I invite body-led movements when there’s space for it.

Without shame: You can bring anything to supervision: the messy cases, the moments you got it wrong, the times you felt overwhelmed. Challenges are explored with compassionate inquiry, never judgment.

With space for lightness: Just because the work is heavy doesn’t mean supervision has to be. I welcome humour and connection alongside the difficult reflections.

I offer both compassionate inquiry and direct feedback, depending on what will serve your team best in the moment.