Supervision

Supervision at Clever Humans offers a space for thoughtful, ethical, and in-depth professional reflection.

Its not just a place to report on client work but a space to think clearly, explore complexity, and develop as a practitioner.

Supervision for counsellors and trainee counsellors

Clinical supervision is an essential part of safe and reflective counselling practice.At Clever Humans, supervision supports you to:

  • Reflect on client work with depth and clarity

  • Strengthen your clinical decision-making

  • Explore ethical and professional considerations

  • Develop confidence in your own way of working

  • Stay grounded and supported in complex work

  • Engage in relational practice and support with a supervisor

Supervision is available for trainee counsellors, qualified counsellors , and practitioners in the helping professions

A thoughtful, integrative approach

Supervision at Clever Humans is grounded in an integrative approach, drawing from:

  • Psychodynamic thinking

  • Person-centred principles

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • EMDR-informed understanding

  • Child and Young People (CYP) work

  • Brief solution-focused approaches

This allows supervision to be responsive to you and your practice, rather than fixed to one model.

About your supervisor

Supervision is led by Nat Clewley.

Nat is an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), with over 15 years counselling experience and ten years of leadership experience within counselling services.

Her work spans private practice, Supervisory support workplace and organisational contexts, alongside trustee roles contributing to governance and oversight within the sector.

Nat has also contributed to wider professional conversations through speaking and writing, and charing including:

  • Current Chair of BACP workplace Executive Division

  • Speaker at the inaugural Kaleidoscope Conference 2025- talk - Unseen and in Between

  • Speaker on human potential, counselling and wellbeing.

  • Features in Stylist Magazine, Psychologies Magazine,The Guardian and more

Focus and areas of interest

There is a particular interest in supporting practitioners working with identity, focusing on mixed race and in-between experiences.

Supervision offers space to explore:

  • Identity and belonging within client work

  • The impact of navigating multiple perspectives

  • Cultural and relational complexity

  • The practitioner’s own experience within the work

These areas are often present, but not always given space.

How supervision works

Supervision at Clever Humans is:

  • Relational, not performative

  • Thoughtful, not rushed

  • Grounded in real-world practice

  • Supportive, not punitive

There is space to:

  • Think

  • Question

  • Reflect

  • Not know

Without pressure to present certainty.

This is supervision that supports both professional responsibility and personal development.

Fees for Individual supervision

  • Trainee counsellors: £40 per hour

  • Qualified counsellors: £80 per hour

Fees for Online Group supervision

  • £ 45 .00 per person

  • 2-hour sessions

  • Maximum of 4 participants

Group supervision offers a contained space for shared learning, multiple perspectives, and thoughtful discussion.

Over time, supervision can support:

  • Greater clinical confidence

  • Stronger ethical awareness

  • Deeper understanding of your work

  • Increased clarity in complex situations

  • Safeguarding and risk support

  • A more grounded and authentic way of practising

Supervision at Clever Humans is a space to think well, practise well, and develop in a way that feels supportive and rooted in the realites of the work.