Felicity offers supervision to osteopaths and other healthcare professionals. The aim of supervision is to provide a safe, confidential and reflective space for individuals to explore all aspects of their professional work and how it affects them personally. As healthcare practitioners, our greatest tools are ourselves. So continuing to explore our personal capacity is an important resource. Supervision aims to help individuals, whether they newly qualified or an experienced professional, to maintain and develop the quality of their professional skills, while supporting their own wellbeing.
For me having supervision is a real joy. It’s a back up, or support system, that allows me to be the best osteopath that I can. I feel everyone deserves that, and I can support my patients, and myself better with having supervision.
Felicity Booty
Felicity has been working as an osteopath for 25 years and has a passion for supporting other osteopaths in their work, so that they are better able to help their patients. Felicity is currently completing a diploma in supervision run by the Centre for Supervision training and Development (CSTD) in Bath, so is offering supervision for a limited time at a reduced rate of £35 for 1 hour session online.
For your supervision session you can bring cases or situations that you are finding difficult and would like to discuss and reflect upon. This type of reflective practice with another professional provides multiple areas of Continuing Professional Development under the General Osteopathic Council and their Osteopathic Practice Standards.
Your supervision session can either take place at Felicity’s practice in Edington, Somerset, or online via a link sent to you by email. All online sessions have end to end encryption to ensure confidentiality. Confidentiality is particularly important to ensure everyone feels safe to discuss any part of their professional work without breaking their clients confidentiality.
Supervision is a core part of many professions including psychology, nursing, medicine, social care, occupational therapy, education and law.
All helping organisations are by their very nature, importing distress, disturbance, fragmentation and need. This is met by individual workers who, if they empathically relate to the client’s distress, will experience parallel distress and sometimes disturbance and fragmentation within themselves (Pearlman and Saakvitne, 1995; Ryde 2009). How much of this they will be able to contain and work through will depend on the size of their emotional container (or bucket); their personality, emotional maturity and professional development; the amount of pressure they are currently under at work and at home; and, most importantly, the quality and regularity of the supervision their receive.
Supervision in the Helping Professions, Hawkins and McMahon 5th edition
Osteopathic Supervision is a developing area of the profession that is supporting the growth of not only the individuals but the profession as a whole.
If would like to discuss supervision further please email her at osteopathy@felicitybooty.co.uk
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