Teaching Counselling is a unique academic experience, as you deliver a highly specialised subject at the same time as being the gatekeeper of your students' emotional and psychological processes, making room for and managing group dynamics that emerge as part of the natural progress. You keep one foot in the present through assessments and meeting the expectations of the awarding body, and one foot in the future, as your loyalties to the counselling profession lead you to make a leap of faith on your students' suitability as qualified practitioners in the future.

Such highly specialised job warrants highly specialised support, but this is rarely available as academic institutions are prevented from providing due to financial, logistical and manpower constraints. A clinical supervisor might find their lack of experience in the field a stumbling block; the space of personal therapy gives you an opportunity to unpack your own process, but rarely provides a space for testing your own process in relation to that of your learners.

Group supervision for counselling tutors provides a shared, reflective space for educators to discuss the challenges of teaching, assess student clinical work, and maintain professional and ethical standards.