ACT Group Supervision for Therapists | Monthly Online

Clinical work can be intellectually rich and personally rewarding. It can also be isolating, uncertain, and emotionally demanding in ways that individual reflection doesn't always reach.

Good group supervision addresses both sides of that reality — not by providing easy answers, but by creating a space where complex cases can be thought through properly, clinical reasoning can be challenged and sharpened, and the experience of the work can be processed alongside people who understand it from the inside.

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What Makes This Group Different

There's a version of group supervision that's essentially a case reporting exercise — each person brings a client, summarises the presenting issue, and receives a few minutes of feedback before moving on. That format fulfils accreditation requirements. It doesn't, in my experience, develop clinicians.

This group is designed differently.

The approach is formulation-driven and ACT-informed. Rather than jumping to intervention, we spend time understanding what's actually maintaining the client's difficulties — thinking functionally rather than diagnostically, identifying the mechanisms keeping the problem in place, and considering what change would actually need to look like. This approach is particularly useful for therapists working within a ACT/CBT/CBS framework who want to develop beyond the protocol and work with greater flexibility and clinical depth.

Sessions are also partly experiential. That means brief process-oriented input on ACT and contextual behavioural science concepts where they're clinically relevant — not theoretical lectures, but the kind of conceptual grounding that makes a model genuinely usable with complex presentations rather than just understandable in theory.

The focus throughout is clinical development alongside case management. The aim is for you to leave not just with a plan for your client, but with a sharpened way of thinking that changes how you approach the next one.

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Who The Group Is For

The group works well for therapists who are:

• Working within ACT and wanting to further develop contextual approaches more fluently into their practice.

• Encountering complex, comorbid, or 'treatment-resistant' presentations and wanting a structured space to think them through with an experienced supervisor and peers.

• Seeking supervision that actively develops them clinically — not just a box to tick for accreditation, but a space that genuinely improves their work over time.

• At any stage of their career. The group currently includes therapists at different experience levels, which enriches the peer learning element considerably.

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Format and Practicalities

The group is deliberately small — a maximum of three members. This is a considered clinical and practical choice. Larger groups produce more surface-level discussion; smaller ones allow genuine depth and meaningful peer relationships to develop over time.

• Group size: Maximum 3 members

• Frequency: Monthly

• Duration: 90 minutes per session

• Location: Online via Zoom

• Fee: £50 per member per session, invoiced monthly

• Format: Rolling — you can join when a space becomes available rather than waiting for a new cohort

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Each session typically includes space for case consultation and formulation work, brief conceptual input where relevant, and reflective discussion of the clinical and personal experience of the work.

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Current Availability

The group currently has one space available.
Given the small group size, spaces are limited and the group works best when there's consistency of membership over time. If you're interested, I'd suggest getting in touch sooner rather than later.

If the group is currently full when you enquire, I'll add you to a waiting list and contact you when a space becomes available or when a new group forms.

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About the Supervisor

I'm Christian Hughes, a BABCP-accredited psychotherapist and supervisor with extensive experience across NHS primary, secondary, and specialist complex treatment services, military mental health, and private practice.
My supervision approach draws on ACT and contextual behavioural science (CBS) frameworks, with particular specialist experience in trauma, C-PTSD, moral injury, OCD, and military veteran presentations. I'm a member of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS) and have a longstanding interest in the integration of ACT with EMDR and CBT for complex presentations.

I've supervised therapists across a range of experience levels and settings, and my approach to supervision reflects the same formulation-driven, functionally-oriented thinking I bring to my clinical work.

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Individual Supervision

If group supervision isn't the right fit for your needs, I also offer individual clinical supervision in 60 or 90 minute sessions.
Find out more about individual supervision here.

 

Get in Touch

To enquire about the current group space, or to be added to the waiting list, get in touch via the contact form, email, or phone.
Contact me here | hello@christiankhughes.com | 01384 931056