Clinical Supervision

with Susan Darker-Smith

The cost of a 1-hour* self-funded supervision session is £100. An additional £20 for VAT will be charged to supervisees living in the UK (England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland). Supervisees outside the UK will not be charged VAT.

*All 1-hour sessions are 55 minutes long.

The cost of a 1-hour* employer-funded supervision session is £130. An additional £26 for VAT will be charged to employers in the UK (England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland). Employers outside the UK will not be charged VAT.

*All 1-hour sessions are 55 minutes long.

How is this being paid?

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  • Your employer’s procurement department will need to place the supervision order with us.
  • When we get their order, we’ll invoice them.
  • Once the invoice is paid, we’ll send you a prepaid Coupon Code you can use to book supervision. Coupon codes expire one year after issue date. 
  • Give procurement a link to this page for options on how to order your training.
  • This option is available when paying for one therapist to get 6 or more hours of individual supervision.
  • Purchase one or more 6-session blocks. Each block costs £780 + VAT.
  • After you pay, we will email the therapist a prepaid Coupon Code to use when booking supervision. Please note, the Coupon Code will expire one year after issue date.
  • Log in now, then return here to start the check out process.
  • When you are logged in and ready to check out, click here and the shopping basket will appear. Change the basket quantity to reflect the total number of 6-session blocks you wish to purchase.

Complete our order form. Once we receive it, we’ll email you an invoice. After your invoice is paid, we’ll email you prepaid Coupon Codes to give your therapists. They can use these codes whenever they need to book supervision.  Please note, Coupon Codes expire one year after issue date.

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How are you paying for supervision?

  • For the purpose of this document, consultees will be referred to as ‘supervisees’ and consultation referred to as ‘supervision’.
  • To avoid confusion around dates / times of supervision / consultation, sessions must be booked by the supervisee or a member of the supervisee’s organisational team (I.e. team lead or procurement etc).   The person doing the booking will need to create a account on our site.  This enables them to go into their own bookings to check dates / times and if necessary, reschedule these. 
  • If your employer is funding your supervision – please note that we now require payment in advance.  This has unfortunately had to be instigated following some NHS trusts booking supervisions but then not paying for them.
  • In rare situations (I.e. complex multiple bookings of different time durations for NHS Trusts with multiple teams needing supervision) we may be able to book these on your behalf, providing supervision has been pre-purchased and we have received payment.   In such cases, we will email you a copy of the dates and will require you to confirm receipt of this email.  By confirming receipt of the email, you confirm the dates and times of bookings we have made on your behalf.
  • Please ensure that we have the name and email / phone number of attendees.  If the appointment details given are that of a procurement officer, no responsibility is taken for supervisees not being aware of supervision sessions booked on their behalf by their organisations.
  • Online supervision sessions use Zoom.  The same secure Zoom link is always used : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5962918262?pwd=bEhMYlFENzRmUXJEdGZEdVBzNkM4dz09  Meeting ID :  596 2918262  Password : 586 146
  • When joining a Zoom meeting, please ensure you have your correct name – as for security purposes, we have the waiting room enabled.
  • If your NHS Trust / Organisation requires you to use TEAMS – you will be expected to set this up and send a joining link directly to Susan at: susan@childtraumatherapycentre.com This is because otherwise, TEAMS can log off supervisees from their own organisations, causing technological issues re-connecting to the Trust / Organisation for them, after supervision. 
  • If an attendee does not turn up within 20 minutes of the planned supervision session, the session will be closed, unless prior notice relating to attendees needing to turn up late has been sent (i.e. urgent therapy case meetings or traffic etc). 
  • Attendance at consultation is expected unless cancelled or rescheduled within 42 hours prior to the appointment.   Rescheduling or cancelling should be done by the person attending via the website (log in; enter your account and go to ‘bookings’ – you should be able to amend, reschedule or cancel a booking from there).   
  • If the attendee is using coupon codes to book for pre-paid supervision, it is recommended to reschedule these, rather than cancelling (as otherwise applied vouchers will be lost.
  • If supervisees fail to attend a planned supervision session, the session cannot not be rescheduled or the time reallocated to a different team within the same organisation after the event.
  • Where supervision sessions have to be rescheduled by the supervisor due to illness or for other reasons, as much time as possible will be given for rescheduling such sessions.
  • We pride ourselves in encouraging our supervisees and take a view of ‘learning opportunities’ (rather than mistakes) when therapy does not always go according to plan.  Attendees taking part in group supervision are expected to be respectful and compassionate to create a positive and considerate learning environment.
  • Whilst we do not guarantee being able to meet every supervisee’s needs, where an accommodation for any physical, learning, or emotional challenges are required, please email us in advance of the supervision.  Attendees may not record any part of the supervision without permission.
  1. Accreditation with BABCP and EMDR Europe is a competency based process.  If you are seeking accreditation for either BABCP (CBT) or EMDR  (UK; All-Ireland; Europe; EMDRIA or any other reciprocating member association), we require clinical videos in order to verify competence in either model.  More in-depth information can be found on the therapy organisation’s website (see below).
  2. We would ask that due to GDPR, no videos are sent directly to us but are shared online during a confidential supervision session, using the shared function of either TEAMS or Zoom.  Where supervision is in person, videos can be brought on encrypted memory sticks or laptops to be shared. 
  3. The video requirements for CBT Psychotherapy accreditation with BABCP are 3 completed videos with a client in which CTS-R has been completed to a satisfactory level. 

The video requirements for EMDR UK; EMDR All-Ireland; EMDR Europe are

Practitioner accreditation: 1 video (minimum) of the adult protocol

Child & Adolescent accreditation:  2 videos (one under 8 and one over 8)

Consultant accreditation: 1 video of providing EMDR to a client; 1 of providing group supervision (3 or more attendees); 1 of individual supervision

  1. If your country / national association does not have an accreditation pathway and is an EMDR Europe organisation member, please follow the EMDR Europe accreditation pathway.   We would suggest that if you are exploring accreditation, please download the relevant accreditation forms in advance and begin capturing cases on the forms as you raise them in supervision. 
  2. If you are a past supervisee of Child Trauma Therapy Centre who was employer-funded, requests for a written letter confirming cases brought to supervision for the purposes of accreditation can  only be provided on the understanding that the organisation / trust funding does not have any outstanding invoices which remain unpaid.  Providing all payments are current, please email requesting a letter with the dates and initials of the supervision sessions you are wanting to include in your accreditation documentation along with the dates you were supervised.  We aim to respond to all such requests within 14 days.

The supervision I have received from Susan has been absolutely brilliant. She has improved my confidence and enabling me to help clients to overcome their difficulty quickly. She’s also added to my confidence in working with victims of mass trauma. — Tony Lacey

Our supervision with Susan has proved to be invaluable, informative and healing.  The use of narratives with EMDR have made a huge difference. Susan has a way of both understanding and encouraging our best work. She’s been an inspiring trainer and supervisor.  — Phil Portway and Julie Holmes

Susan is an incredibly supportive and highly knowledgeable EMDR supervisor. In our supervision sessions I feel validated and held as a therapist. She creates a safe environment where I can be open and honest about my practice which really helps me best serve my clients. Because of her wealth of expertise and proficiency, I’ve been able to expand my EMDR mastery. She actively encourages my professional development and, through her positive and constructive guidance, I feel confident to develop and expand my practice. I highly recommend Susan as a supervisor, I have learnt and grown so much under her direction. — Justine Fitzgerald

Susan has been my supervisor for many years. I would not hesitate to recommend her. She’s helped me improve my clinical EMDR skills since I got trained in EMDR, up to Child & Adolescent accreditation. Her knowledge and expertise are second to none and I feel very lucky that I have her as my supervisor. — Kerri Crewe

As my supervisor, Susan creates a supportive environment where I can learn and develop. Because she’s very knowledgeable, she always enhances my knowledge base during supervision. — Joanna Phillips

Susan’s supervision and guidance throughout my EMDR career has been invaluable. I would strongly recommend her as a supervisor. — Helen Wilson

I met Susan many ago when we both did our EMDR Consultants Training. It is very easy to gel with her and her passion for therapy was infectious. I was delighted when she agreed to be my supervisor. Although I’m an experienced therapist, I’ve never felt uncomfortable approaching Susan with issues I should presumably know all about. She is generous with her knowledge and adapts her supervision style to supervisee needs. She is a true professional with high ethical standards. I’m so privileged to have Susan as my supervisor. — Lesley Watts

Each supervision with Susan makes me feel expanded both as a therapist and a person. She creates a space where I can learn and grow by experimenting with new perspectives, techniques and skills. She is warm, creative, fun and very knowledgeable. — Yesim Arikut Treece

Susan has been my CBT and EMDR supervisor for almost 3 years now. I am inspired and extremely grateful of the collaborative relationship that we have developed since we have been working together. Susan fully appreciates and understands the complexity of the work I undertake and has always been warm and encouraging regarding this, providing a sincere, trusting, and holding environment that supports me in working with my clients and importantly, on reflecting on my work and practice. I have no hesitation in recommending her. — Carl O’Neil

My professional collaboration with Susan was full of wisdom and knowledge, delivered in a warm, compassionate and supportive way. Her full involvement in my learning process reflected her desire to share with me her resources and experiences which were directly and compassionately linked to my professional and personal needs. Susan helped me to expand my EMDR skills, my therapy practice and confidence in terms of treating children and adolescents and their parents. I am so grateful for my professional collaboration and human connection with Susan and that’s why I would highly and warmly recommend her both as a consultant and a trainer. — Amalia-Luisa Mitrulescu-Paiseanu, Psychotherapist and Clinical Psychologist, Romania

Susan takes a very affirming, non-shaming approach.  She works to the principle that everyone continues to learn in clinical practise and that mistakes are simply learning opportunities that provide chances for growth.  Susan is knowledgeable and compassionate in supporting her supervisees to become the very best therapists they can be – whilst acknowledging the individual skills and nuances each person brings into their experience of being a therapist.

Yes. As an EMDR Accredited Child & Adolescent Consultant she can supervise clinical work with clients of all ages.

Yes.  She is accredited to provide supervision for both.

Yes. You can get credit for both in a single supervision session.

Susan has a wealth of EMDR expertise from her 15+ years of clinical and supervisory experience. She has experience using EMDR to treat different populations of clients of all ages. If you choose to seek EMDR accreditation later on, you’ll be able to count all your supervision hours with her towards that goal.

As soon as you’ve completed a EMDR Europe-Accredited Standard EMDR Training. 

As soon as you’ve completed a Level 1 (Core) EMDR Europe-Accredited Child & Adolescent Training. 

Yes.  She can supervise any European therapist needing an EMDR Europe-Accredited supervisor or any therapist anywhere in the world needing supervision.

For practicing EMDR with adults, click here. 

For practicing EMDR with children and adolescents, click here.

For becoming an EMDR consultant, click here.

Susan Darker-Smith is an EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant and Child & Adolescent Trainer. She is also a BABCP Accredited Supervisor for Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT). She provides supervision for those seeking…

  • general clinical support for EMDR or CBT with children, teens, adults, and families
  • accreditation as an EMDR Practitioner or Consultant with EMDR Europe
  • accreditation as an EMDR Child & Adolescent Practitioner or Consultant with EMDR Europe
  • accreditation as a CBT psychotherapist with BABCP

Supervision sessions can be scheduled for individuals, pairs, and groups. It can be performed online (using our Zoom link, your MS Teams link, or Whatsapp), or in-person in Baschurch, Shropshire.  Please email Susan if you wish to schedule in-person supervision.

If you are booking for employer funded supervision, please note – we only accept block bookings, paid in advance from organisations.    

Reviewing Client Recordings: If you are seeking accreditation in either EMDR or CBT, it will be necessary to review video recordings of therapy with a client and / or clinical supervision.  These recordings must stay in the possession of the consultee at all times. They will be viewed with the consultee (online or in person) during supervision sessions.

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