Coaching Supervision
What is Coaching Supervison?
Coaching supervision is a reflective space where you can step back from your coaching practice and explore how you're being with your clients, what patterns are emerging, and where you're being called to grow.
It's not about having your work evaluated or checked. It's about creating space for honest exploration and bringing the challenging client situations, the moments you felt stuck, the ethical dilemmas, the questions about your impact, and the patterns you're noticing in yourself.
Supervision serves three essential purposes:
- Developmental: Supporting your ongoing growth and learning as a coach
- Resourcing: Providing support and care for you as you hold space for others
- Qualitative: Maintaining ethical standards and best practice in your coaching
Whether you're new to coaching or highly experienced, supervision offers space to deepen your practice, maintain perspective, and avoid the isolation that can come from working independently.
Regular supervision is required for EMCC-credentialed coaches. While the ICF only encourages supervision (except for team coaching, where they do require it), ICF-credentialed coaches can count up to 10 hours of coaching supervision towards their CPD requirements.
My Approach to Supervision
I supervise from a phenomenological stance: you are already complete as a coach. Supervision isn't about fixing what's broken - it's about creating awareness of how you're being with your clients, what's obscured by habit, and what wants to emerge.
My phenomenological grounding shapes how I attend to your practice. I notice not just what you're doing, but how you're being with your clients: your embodied presence, the quality of attention you bring, how moods shape what becomes possible, the systems at play.
Six principles guide my supervision work:
- Trust and safety as our foundation
- Curiosity rather than criticism
- Equal partnership in your development
- Systemic awareness of context
- Presence in the here and now
- My full humanity as a fellow coach
Two Ways to Work Together
One-to-One Supervision
Individual sessions for deeper, personalised exploration of your coaching practice.
Structure:
- 1-hour sessions via Zoom or Microsoft Teams
- Scheduled flexibly as your practice needs
- Minimum commitment: Once per quarter (to maintain relationship continuity)
- Confidential space for your toughest challenges
Who this is for:
- Coaches wanting dedicated attention to their practice
- Working through specific challenging client situations
- Exploring your development edge in depth
- Needing flexible scheduling around your work
Investment: €120 per session (plus Irish VAT at 23% if applicable)
Group Supervision
Collaborative learning with fellow coaches in a confidential, reflective space.
Structure:
- 6 sessions over 12 months (roughly every 2 months)
- 2-2.5 hours per session (depending on group experience level)
- Small groups (maximum 6 coaches)
- Groups organised by experience level for peer learning
- Conducted via Zoom
Who this is for:
- Coaches seeking peer learning and diverse perspectives
- Those who value collaborative exploration
- Coaches at similar experience levels
- Anyone wanting ongoing supervision at a more accessible investmen
What makes group supervision valuable:
- Learning from others' challenges and insights
- Diverse perspectives on your situations
- Sense of community and reduced isolation
- Shared exploration and mutual support
- Cost-effective ongoing supervision
Current Groups:
I typically run separate groups for:
- Newer coaches (6x 2 hour sessions)
- Experienced coaches (6x 2.5 hour sessions)
- Spaces are limited due to small group size - contact me to enquire about availability
Investment: €500-€600 for the full year (depending on group and session length)
What Supervision Looks Like
Supervision, whether one-to-one or in a group, is areflective space for exploration and growth
What you might bring:
- Explore challenging client situations
- Explore what's alive for you about a particular client
- Notice patterns across your client work
- Examine ethical questions or dilemmas
- Reflect on your development and growth edges
- Discuss the business side of your practice
- Questions about your impact or effectiveness
- Your own development and wellbeing as a coach
- Simply check in on how you're doing
What I offer:
- Full presence and attention to what you bring
- Questions that invite deeper exploration
- Observations about what I'm noticing
- Systemic perspective on context and patterns
- Challenge and support for your growth
- Care for you as a whole person, not just your coaching
What Coaches Say
Group Supervision
“He has powerful calm presence, asks questions with curiosity and offers what he notices in a gentle effective way that evokes deeper inquiry. I felt able to be open to discuss issues and gain insights through Stephen's questioning and observations which led to much deeper exploration of my sensations and feelings as well as my thoughts on the challenge.”
Mary Farebrother
“Stephen creates a safe and calm space for reflection and for our group to be open and honest. He has an incredible knack for picking up on when I am doubting myself and helping me reframe my thoughts, consider my perspective, see my own blind spots and patterns. I have a more positive mindset following the year of supervision with Stephen, and I have noticed that I am doubting myself a lot less.”
Maryjane Mulrooney
“Stephen creates an environment of safety and trust, where I feel comfortable bringing the toughest of topics, even ones that I have not been able to properly formulate and pop up as 'niggles'. No judgement, instinctive empathy and above all a safe space to share. The somatic work which he has used with me, has been invaluable with my own client base.”
Bernadette Doyle
One-to-One Supervision
“Working with Stephen is always insightful. Alongside a genuinely vast range of knowledge, tools and skills - he brings a humanity, and an appreciation of those he works with – that creates a platform that has inspired me to be better with my clients. He has helped me simplify my coaching and coaching process. Rather than focus on more tools and techniques - he has helped me see the value in relationships, trust, listening and curiosity.”
Jayson Moran
“Stephen creates a reflective space that encourages me to pause, step back and focus on my development as a coach. There have been times when I have felt uncertain or stuck in my delivery, but Stephen's unique style of supervision consistently brings clarity and fresh perspectives. His guidance has significantly boosted my confidence, not only in my individual coaching practice, but also in my work as a team coach.”
Jamela Khan