If you’re coaching seriously, you need reflective space with someone who understands the work.
The real challenges
• How your own psychological patterns show up in coaching relationships
• Parallel process—when client dynamics replicate in supervision
• Ethical complexity without clean answers
• Moments when you’re stuck, triggered, or uncertain
• The difference between competent coaching and coaching with depth
• Working with psychological material responsibly
• Systemic dynamics in organizational coaching
The frameworks
I use the Seven-Eyed Model (Hawkins & Smith) and the CIRCLES framework to examine coaching work across multiple dimensions: the client system, interventions, the coaching relationship, your internal process, the supervision relationship, and the wider organizational context. The aim is to develop your capacity to see what you’re embedded in while you’re coaching.
Individual supervision
Monthly or bi-monthly, 60-minute sessions focused on your cases, your patterns, and your development as a coach. This format is suited to coaches working with psychological frameworks, in complex organizational settings, or at transition points in their practice.
Group supervision
If you’re looking for a reflective space to examine your practice with rigor and depth, a short conversation is often the most useful starting point.
Small groups of four to six coaches, meeting monthly for 90–120 minutes. Working with others’ cases allows you to recognize your own patterns in colleagues’ work and to develop capacity for peer supervision. Groups reveal things individual work cannot.