Attachment-Informed Supervision: The Functional Model Revisited

£9.99

This one-hour CPD training invites supervisors and supervisees to revisit Inskipp and Proctor’s Functional Model of supervision through an attachment-informed lens. The session explores the three core functions of supervision — formative, normative and restorative — and considers how each may be experienced differently depending on attachment history, relational safety, power, culture and identity.

Rather than seeing supervision as a purely professional or task-focused space, this training asks what happens beneath the surface of supervisory conversations. How safe does it feel to learn, be challenged, be accountable, or ask for support? How might supervisees respond when shame, uncertainty, authority or vulnerability are activated? And how can supervisors offer a secure base and safe haven while still supporting ethical practice, professional growth and accountability?

Participants will reflect on how different attachment strategies may show up in supervision, including anxious, avoidant and disorganised patterns, and how supervisors can respond with curiosity rather than judgement. The session also considers how culture, race, class, gender, professional hierarchy and lived experience shape what feels possible to bring into supervision.

This CPD is suitable for supervisors, supervisees, counsellors, psychotherapists and practitioners in mental health or social care who want to deepen their understanding of supervision as a relational, reflective and attachment-informed process.

By the end of the session, participants will have explored how to use the Functional Model more relationally, how to notice safety and threat in supervision, and how to support supervision that is safe enough for honesty, challenge, repair and growth.

PLEASE NOTE: The time of the recording has been adapted from a live session and includes time for reflection!