mentoring.

I offer creative mentoring for clients in the following areas, which are representative of my particular fields of long-term expertise:

  • Professional therapeutic practice & development

  • Book writing - narrative/creative non-fiction, nature-writing, memoir

  • Weaving an interdisciplinary career

Mentoring is offered on an ad-hoc basis, usually monthly (or fortnightly/three-weekly) and is scheduled together session-by-session (rather than offered at a set time, as with therapy). I work creatively and draw on a variety of trainings and influences, more of which you can read about on my therapy page. Our work will be collaborative and exploratory.

Mentoring is designed to help you draw on my experience, but though I will always answer any and all questions you might have for me, my approach to mentoring is similar to that of therapy, where I would rather we elicit your wisdom and understanding of what to do next/what you want for your career etc, using creative, depthful and playful methods working in and with the natural world wherever possible!

Mentoring is offered as follows:

  1. An initial session - this is a chance to meet each other and get to know each other. It will be held online via Zoom and is offered at my therapy rate.

  2. If we continue working together mentoring is offered on the suggestion of a commitment to a minimum of 5 sessions. These don’t need to be in a particular time frame. A block of sessions helps me truly understand your work or practice, your hopes, your obstacles, your direction and so forth. One-off sessions are also available but for extended sessions only so we have a decent amount of time to get to know your work.

  3. If you are seeking mentoring for your outdoor therapy practice we will aim to make at least 1 session outdoors unless you specify you would like all of them outside.

Do you offer clinical supervision for therapists?

At this time, I do not offer supervision for therapists. The nature of my work often takes me away for travel, and this is not a stable-enough base to offer oversight of therapeutic practice and hold this work for supervisees. In addition, my priority is still - nearly a decade on - in developing my own specialisms in this work. Mentoring is offered as a middle-ground for therapists who want support building their ecological therapeutic practices from an experienced practitioner, but without clinical responsibility. Mentoring is not a substitute for supervision, but complementary to.

One-off sessions & consultations

I offer one-off sessions and professional consultations and these are between 2 hours up to half or full day. I completely understand there are instances and moments in our careers when we need some help or advice quickly and in response to a fleeting moment or opportunity! Likewise, we might need a sanity check on a book proposal or piece of writing we’re sending off into the world. Alternatively, you might just have some burning questions to ask. If this is you, please do get in touch. These are primarily held outside, but can also be arranged online.

Grab hold of your threads and weave them. Your journey is yours to make, but we do not have to make our journeys alone. A good mentor can be transformative

Why mentoring?

  • I feel lost and don’t know how to proceed with my path

  • I have run out of inspiration and need a helping hand

  • I could do with running my ideas past someone who has done this before

  • I have creative ideas I want to explore

  • I need a second pair of eyes on my new project

  • I have a lot of ideas and I don’t know where to go next

  • I feel like I’m on my own

  • I could do with the benefit of someone else’s experience

  • I value my peace and I am a quiet person, and I need support in doing my work in this noisy world

Good for you to know:

  • I did used to offer one-off, hourly, mentoring sessions until 2024. I only offer those now for people I have already worked with on courses, workshops, in therapy etc. If we have recently worked together before please do give me a shout!

    I still offer one-off sessions but they are for a minimum of 2-hours and are a higher fee. You are welcome to enquire about these too!

  • Book mentoring is designed to help you progress your ideas for trad publishing or self publishing over a period of time. I can read working manuscripts as part of that process, but as a mentor, not a copy editor or proof reader. Usually we will work with a few pages at a time. If you would like me to read more than a few pages and planning documents before mentoring commences on your book dreams, then this is an additional fee.

  • The cost of mentoring is variable but begins at £75/session. It will depend entirely on how you would like support with your work and over what time-frame. Just get in touch with your ideas and I will let you know! :)

Sessions are offered outside and online (please see ‘therapy’ tab for more information on how I work and/or to fill in an enquiry form)

Together we will work out what you’re looking for, how I can help, and build from there.