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For Coaches

Supervision for coaches ready to deepen their practice.

From someone who is still actively coaching, still sitting in the uncertainty of the work rather than assessing it from a distance.

Most coaches reach a point in their own development where the next gain isn’t another technique. It’s a deeper understanding of themselves and their practice, and supervision is where that work can happen.

This philosophy from Pema Chödrön is at the heart of my supervision practice. My PhD research reinforces the importance of self-awareness in how we work with others.

My supervision offers a space to step back and think more clearly about your work. You’re free to wonder, question and experiment with your thinking, in a space where complex issues can be explored with warmth rather than critique.

You might bring a client relationship that has become stuck, an ethical question, something about the work that you can’t quite make sense of, or your own reactions and responses to a client. We’ll explore what’s happening beneath the surface, what you might be bringing to the relationship and what new possibilities that awareness creates.

The aim is not simply to solve the immediate problem. It’s to deepen your capacity to think, reflect and work with greater awareness, so that your practice continues to develop.

“We work on ourselves in order to work with others, and we work with others in order to work on ourselves.”

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Self-awareness and supervision

My research identified a four-stage developmental cycle in how self-awareness develops in coaching practice:

  • Understand
    Recognising the impact your self-awareness has on your coaching practice.

  • Explore
    Developing a deeper understanding of the different components of self-awareness.

  • Develop
    Building self-awareness through reflection, experience and ongoing learning.

  • Connect
    Using greater self-awareness to create deeper and more effective connection with your clients.

It isn’t linear, and it isn’t something you complete once. You return to the cycle as your practice evolves, because there is always more to notice, question and understand.

My supervision brings together this research with the realities of coaching practice. I still receive coaching myself, I still receive supervision, and I still sit with the uncertainty and complexity that comes with this work.

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“A sandpit in which to play, rather than a courtroom in which to judge.”

What supervision with me offers:

  • 1:1 supervision for experienced and developing coaches

  • Group supervision for coaches working together or independently

  • Supervision-on-supervision for qualified coaching supervisors

  • A space to explore client dynamics, ethical questions, stuckness and your own responses to the work

  • Integration of academic theory with lived coaching experience

  • Support to maintain ethical standards while continuing to develop your practice

  • Reflective practice groups - small, ongoing groups for coaches wanting to deepen self-awareness through reflection, experience and shared learning

I also guide organisations that supervise coaches and head the Professional Certificate in Coaching Supervision at Henley Business School.

My supervision will remind you that the moment you think you have arrived, you have not.

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Preparing for Supervision

Upcoming events

The Future of Coaches

2nd December 2026 • 18:00 to 20:00

Central London

Julia will be joining a panel discussion with Verity Hannell, Laurence Barrett and Karen Foy to explore the future of coaches and coaching in a turbulent and uncertain world.

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The Self-Awareness Lab for Coaches 2027

28 April 2027

Damson Hill Cottage, Hampshire

Join Julia for a day of reflection and exploration in wonderful surroundings. Focused on self-awareness and self in practice, this will be a small group of 8 exploring individually, in pairs and in a group.

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Client testimonials

  • “I can highly recommend Julia as a supervisor for your coaching practice. I came out of our first session with an overwhelming sense of being in safe, skilled, knowledgeable and supportive hands and I find every session with her immensely valuable. She calmly supports you to think deeply, consider dilemmas from new perspectives, and raises your self-awareness, and always with the best interests of your client in mind. I would not hesitate to recommend her.”

    Annabelle White,
    Change Navigating

  • “My two best group learning and reflection experiences were in supervision groups with Julia. She creates an open, non-judgemental environment where you can lose the inhibitions that meddle with shared reflection. The balance of contracting, structure, and establishing our way of working alongside an experimental, fluid and in the moment approach was perfect for me. Julia has set the bar for me with supervision style, supervisor selection, the value of supervision and the necessary conditions for generating self-awareness. I would recommend Julia to coaches of any capability if supervision is much more than a tick box compliance activity; you need to be willing to work on your self.”



    Heather Frost,
    Director of People and Practice

  • “Julia, is the real deal not only as a PHD qualified superb Coach/Supervisor but as a human being. Julia has been coaching me for a while now and if you are lucky enough to be coached by her you should be smiling from the offset..... be prepared to put the hard work in and you will experience an amazing transformation to become the best version of yourself! As Nike says "just do it"....!”

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