The Body-Informed Supervision Toolkit

Notice more than what was said.

Supervision often begins with the events of a session. Yet therapeutic work can also show up in the practitioner: tension, a change in breathing, an urge to rescue, a wish to withdraw, or a feeling that stays after the client has left.

The Body-Informed Supervision Toolkit offers structured ways to bring those experiences into reflective practice. It invites curiosity without treating a bodily or emotional response as proof of what is happening for a client.

Inside the toolkit

The 35-page workbook includes worksheets and prompts for:

• preparing to bring a client to supervision
• mapping your bodily, emotional, thoughtful and relational responses
• exploring what you may be carrying or why the work feels stuck
• looking through the Seven-Eyed Model with attention to your own experience
• considering parallel process without jumping to conclusions
• reflecting on responsibility, rescuing and over-functioning
• working with feeling judged or disagreeing with a supervisor
• resetting after a difficult session and leaving supervision with greater clarity
• noticing patterns in yourself as a practitioner over time

You do not need to complete the workbook in order. Choose the page that fits the question or situation you are facing.

Who it is for

This resource is designed for counsellors, psychotherapists, play therapists, clinical supervisors and other practitioners who want a thoughtful way to explore their experience of therapeutic work.

Format and licence

You will receive one 35-page A4 PDF to save and print. The individual purchaser may use the worksheets within their own professional reflective practice and supervision. The PDF may not be shared, redistributed or placed in a shared resource library. Please enquire about organisational, training or group use.

This is an educational reflective resource. It does not replace suitably qualified supervision, safeguarding procedures, professional guidance or individual clinical judgement.