Spirituality & Alchemy in Counselling Supervision

Caring for the Soul in Supervision

Experiential CPD for counsellors, psychotherapists and supervisors

What happens when we allow supervision to become a space where psyche, soul, embodiment, symbol and mystery can participate in our thinking?

This experiential CPD day offers a space to explore the spiritual and soulful dimensions of supervision — not as a belief system to impose, but as another dimension of human experience that may already be present in the therapeutic and supervisory relationship.

Together we will explore how spirituality, intuition, shadow, symbol, creativity and alchemical imagination might inform our supervision practice.

You do not need to hold a particular faith or spiritual belief to attend.

Practicalities

TERMS & CONDITIONS OF BOOKING

1. By booking you are confirming that you are either a qualified/trainee clinical supervisor or a counsellor/psychotherapist/ psychologist with at least 3 years of clinical experience.

2. Your place is not confirmed until the deposit is paid.

2. The balance of £70 is payable at least 1 month before the workshop, i.e. by 11th September 2026, via bank transfer. 

3. The deposit is not refundable but in case of cancellations before 11th of September may be partially transferable to a future event (minus £25  admin fee) - after that date there will be no refunds for any reason.

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Teachers

Maria Kefalogianni 

Maria Kefalogianni Maria Kefalogianni is an experienced psychotherapist, counselling supervisor, and the creator of Presence-Centred Psychotherapy approach and The Ancient Mother Spiral®. A decolonial alchemical framework rooted in embodied non-duality, ancient wisdom of her ancestors and the intelligence of the Divine Feminine Studies. It is an evolving body of work which emerged in deep journey in The World of Soul ( Anima Mundi); after a period of 9months of unity consciousness. With 17 years of clinical practice and 14 years of experience training and therapists and Supervisors in training - at Salford University - Maria’s work sits at the intersection of clinical rigour and spiritual depth; integrating Depth and Jungian perspectives, eco-psychology and embodied non-duality in her work, she honours the intersectional and decolonial lens this work provides, in supporting people discover they are ordinary mystics and in re-discovering the deepest sense of belonging to the human and beyond human world. She holds a special interest in working with Neurodivergence (ND), specifically illuminating the inherent decolonial aspect of the neurodivergent experience for Mothers as her niche expertise.

As a non-dual guide and sound healing practitioner, Maria is a creative co-weaver with Spirit and lives her life rooted on what she calls the "liminal fertile void" of our aliveness. Maria writes on the studies of consciousness and has contributed a chapter titled 'Delving into Deeper Consciousness in Person-Centered Practice and Research: The value of Non-Dual Self-Inquiry' to the Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality & Contemplative Studies(September 2024) and is a self published poet "Honey & Ash: Mothers's Alchemy of Burn and Bloom" found on Amazon  .; and has presented recently on Online events : The Alchemical Vessel: Accessing the Deep Heart in Supervision; Maria's website is https://www.presencecenteredpsychotherapy.com 

Masha Bennett is a creative trauma psychotherapist and supervisor, integrative sandplay teacher, gong practitioner and Pesso Boyden therapist. She has been training health professionals for 19 years. Having been brought up as an atheist, Masha is on an ongoing journey to re-connect to her innate spirituality which she explores and develops through creativity - sandplay, painting, poetry and song. She published her first collection of healing poetry, The Appearing Act, in 2023. Masha runs an online community for those interested in creative approaches for personal and spiritual development, and helps others to find what makes their heart sing and to nourish their own creativity and playfulness. Masha’s website is https://sandsoundcentre.co.uk

TESTIMONIALS

EH - Lecturer, Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor

'Today I was fortunate enough to have attended the dreamiest CPD event at Sand & Sound Centre. The one day training delved deep into the spiritual and soulful aspects of supervision, offering a refreshing and profound perspective on the role of a counselling supervisor.The trainers, Masha Bennett and Maria Kefalogianni, are exceptionally knowledgeable and engaging, seamlessly blending their lived experience with insightful and practical applications. Their ability to weave mystical elements into the supervision process was both enlightening and inspiring. The small group discussions and interactive sessions with sand tray and sound provided ample opportunities for reflection and personal growth, allowing exploration into the deeper dimensions of our experiences and consideration of its impact on both supervisees and clients.What stood out most was the supportive and nurturing environment created by Masha and Maria. There was a strong sense of community and shared purpose among peers, fostering meaningful connections and discussions. I’m looking forward seeing to how this training develops over time and would highly recommend to any counselling supervisor looking to deepen their practice and connect with the more spiritual and mystical aspects of their work.It was an enriching day that will have a lasting positive impact on my professional practice.' 

SL - Counsellor, Clinical Supervisor, Healer

'Yesterday, I attended a beautiful workshop called Alchemy and Spirituality for Supervision at the Sound and Sand Centre in Hyde, Greater Manchester.

We explored right-brain processes through creative expression - using sandtrays, art materials, and storytelling - to deepen our ability to connect with supervisees and clients on a soul level. It brought an extra touch of magic to the work, opening up new possibilities.

We also learned how to use stories as powerful metaphors to reach the unconscious mind—while being mindful not to overcomplicate the process.

One quote from a fellow participant really resonated with me: “We forget we are hiding and feel lost instead.”It made me reflect on how I can further integrate Shamanic practices - working with the elements of earth, air, fire, and water on the Medicine Wheel - as metaphors in supervision and therapy.

For a long time, I hid behind traditional counselling models. Now I embrace them and mix them with years of energy and Shamanic work. That blend - that alchemy - is where the transformation happens.

I’ve come away from the workshop full of ideas and inspiration to work in ways that transcend the limits of our everyday awareness—offering clients and supervisees the opportunity to go deeper.'Caring for the Soul in Supervision

Presence-Centred Supervision, Mentorship, Training & CPD

For therapists, practitioners, healers, creatives, facilitators and space-holders who want their work to include the whole person.

For all who want their work to include the whole person.

My work with professionals is rooted in the same Presence-Centred approach that underpins my therapeutic work: a belief that meaningful development happens when we are able to slow down, become curious, listen deeply and bring the whole of ourselves into the room.

I offer supervision, mentorship and experiential training for those who want to deepen not only what they know, but how they are in their work.

There is room here for clinical thinking, professional responsibility and ethical practice — alongside embodiment, creativity, relationship, imagination and the deeper questions that sometimes arise when we work with human beings.

You don't have to leave yourself at the door when you enter supervision. I feel so sad hearing new supervisees arrive to me fragmented. I aspire to work in such a way to bring your body, soul and mind into alignment.

🌿 THREE WAYS WE CAN WORK TOGETHER

🌿 Supervision

For therapists and practitioners bringing their clinical work.

Professional Mentorship

For practitioners, healers, creatives and changemakers bringing what wants to emerge.

A space for professional evolution, creative development, vocation, visibility, new bodies of work and the thresholds where your professional identity is changing.

🎓 Training & CPD

Experiential learning for professionals and space-holders who want to deepen their capacity for Presence.

Training that brings together professional knowledge with embodiment, creativity, relational awareness, contemplative practice and the deeper dimensions of working with human beings.

→ Explore Training & CPD

🌿 Supervision

Presence-Centred Supervision

I offer supervision to trainee and qualified therapists and practitioners who want a space that is professionally grounded, deeply human and spacious enough for the complexity of therapeutic work.

I have been providing supervision since 2013, and I have been training therapists to become Supervisors for over 10 years, supporting both trainee and experienced practitioners across various depths of self-awareness and consciousness.

For me, supervision is not simply about asking:

“What should I do with this client?”

It is also about becoming curious about:

“What is happening here?”

“What is this work stirring in me?”

“What is my body telling me?”

“What might I be missing?”

“How am I being shaped by the work?”

We slow down enough to hear.

There is room for clinical thinking, professional responsibility and ethical practice — alongside embodiment, creativity, relationship, imagination and the deeper questions that sometimes arise when we work with human beings.

You don't have to leave yourself at the door when you enter supervision.

Beyond Traditional Supervision

I see supervision as a living space for reflection, integration and professional growth.

Sometimes client material touches something in us.

Sometimes we become stuck.

Sometimes we find ourselves over-responsible, rescuing, withdrawing or doubting our own knowing.

Sometimes a client relationship activates something that requires our attention before we can see clearly again.

Rather than rushing to resolve these moments, we slow down.

We become curious. Alively Curious.

We listen to what is happening in the therapeutic relationship, within our own bodies and within the wider field of the work.

The aim is not to become the perfect practitioner. I'd dare even say strive at all to BE something... but It is to become more fully yourself within the work, with greater awareness, choice, discernment and presence.

🌿 Embodied Tracking & Somatic Intelligence

I will be alively curious about your direct felt experience

• Becoming aware of how client material moves through your nervous system.

• Identifying where you are in your own process through bodily wisdom.

• Learning to trust the intelligence that lives below conscious thought.

• Recognising countertransference as potentially meaningful information rather than something to simply eliminate.

• Noticing subtle shifts in your body, emotions, energy and presence as you sit with your clients.

  
  

We SLOW DOWN so we can HEAR.

I bring my own attunement to you and your process, offering reflections and support to help you recognise what you may already know intuitively and translate that knowing into conscious, tangible ways of working.

The body becomes another source of information.

Not the only source — but one that can easily be overlooked when we are busy thinking, analysing and trying to get it right.

🎨 Archetypal Reflection & Creative Mapping

Sometimes words are not enough.

Images, symbols, stories and creative expression can give us another language for understanding what is happening.

We may explore:

• Imagery and symbols to recognise universal roles and patterns you may be inhabiting in your work.

• Creative mapping to bring clarity to complex systemic dynamics.

• The Wounded Healer archetype and your unique medicine.

• Art, sandtray and symbolic representation when words fall short.

• Myth and imagination as ways of approaching material that cannot always be reached through analysis alone.

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You don't need to consider yourself an artist.

Sometimes a single image can tell us something that an hour of conversation could not. And i will support you to cultivate this somatic wisdom of intuitive powers even deeper .

🌳 Nature-Based & Walk-and-Talk Supervision

For those who find that movement and nature support their thinking and embodiment, I also offer supervision outdoors where appropriate. We physically walk in green spaces in the Woodland behind my home.

The body moves while we reflect.

The earth becomes part of the conversation. Our wider container.

The trees, stones, seasons, weather and landscape can offer another kind of perspective. Drawing from Eco-Psychology we learn to expand our horizons of consciousness and to allow deeper dimensions to be with our supervisees and clients

I sometimes think of this as allowing the earth to co-supervise.

The spiral works wonderfully here.

🔥 Liminal Work & Unconscious Process

I am rooted in the liminal aspects of life ;the places where something is changing but has not yet found its new form.

This can be the space between an old professional identity and a new one.

The space between sessions.

The moment when you know something is happening but cannot yet name it.

Together we may become curious about:

• Unconscious patterns emerging in the spaces between sessions.

• Dreams, synchronicities, images and somatic responses when they are meaningful to the work.

• How your own spiral stage may influence your client work.

• What professional “stuckness” might be showing you.

• The places where confusion, resistance and uncertainty contain information.

I don't believe every dream is a message or every synchronicity needs interpretation.

The invitation is simply to remain curious.

What might this be showing us?

Sometimes the places we most want to move away from contain the gold.

🔥 The Alchemical Heart: Transformation Through Presence

At the centre of our work and life there is a profound stillness and presence.

Our supervision sessions are spacious, kind, honest and alive.

They are designed to help you access this centre within yourself, so that you can meet your clients from a deeper place of presence — and perhaps meet your own life from there too.

What We Uncover Together

• The unconscious stories that shape your therapeutic presence.

• How your own unhealed places may show up in client work — as places for awareness, discernment and integration.

• The relationship between your personal spiral and professional calling.

• How to hold complexity without losing your centre.

• Where you may be over-identifying, rescuing, withdrawing or becoming overly responsible.

• What your own inner experience may be teaching you about the therapeutic relationship.

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The Self-Energy Connection

Drawing from Internal Family Systems, contemplative traditions , jungian psychology and embodied nonduality, we may explore the quality of awareness known as Self-energy — the capacity to become curious, compassionate, grounded and present with what is arising.

I also recognise this through my own language of presence — that deeper quality of awareness that can remain available even when different parts of us are activated.

We don't need to become perfectly regulated or endlessly “healed”.

We become more able to notice.

More able to choose.

More able to return.

More able to meet ourselves and our clients with compassion.

🌊 The Ripple Effect: Healing Beyond the Therapy/Supervision Room

When a practitioner consciously walks their own inner journey, the effects can ripple beyond the professional sphere.

As you root more deeply into presence, while working alongside me, your clients may experience the difference in how you listen, respond and hold the therapeutic relationship. All my supervisees report these shifts and changes. Your own personal integration can continue beyond the supervision room.

Old relational and inherited patterns can become more visible and available for choice. Your presence can become part of the medicine you bring into the wider community you serve.

For me, this is one of the deepest possibilities of supervision:

the work doesn't stop when the supervision hour ends.

It continues through how you listen.

How you relate.

How you hold boundaries.

How you respond to uncertainty.

How you meet your clients.

And how you inhabit your own life

🌿 The Practitioner as a Whole Human Being

Whether I am working with you as a supervisor or mentor, I don't see you as a professional role alone.

I see the human being underneath it.

Your history.

Your body.

Your hopes.

Your fears.

Your creativity.

Your gifts.

Your unfinished questions.

Your longing to make meaningful work in the world.

Professional development and personal development are often woven together.

The more deeply we know ourselves, the more choice we can bring to our work.

The more able we are to recognise our own patterns, the less likely we are to unconsciously place them into our relationships.

And the more grounded we become in our own presence, the more space we can offer others.

🔥 PROFESSIONAL MENTORSHIP

For practitioners, healers, creatives and changemakers standing at a threshold

Mentorship is different from supervision. IT is more active and focus oriented. Yet not sacrificing Presence. And all space-holders deserve to understand and cultivate skills of Depth Presence in their work.

It is indeed the work of our times.

Mentorship is not primarily about bringing a client case for clinical reflection.

It is a space for you and the work that is wanting to emerge through you.

Perhaps you are developing a new body of work.

Perhaps you have outgrown the way you have been practising.

Perhaps you have an idea, offering, project or vocation that you can feel but cannot yet fully articulate.

Perhaps you are standing between identities — no longer who you were, but not yet sure who you are becoming.

This is the emergent space for your further development as a professional.

And it can be both exhilarating and uncomfortable.

🌒 THE SPACE BETWEEN WHAT WAS AND WHAT WANTS TO BECOME

I offer mentorship as a place where you can slow down enough to listen to what is genuinely yours.

Supporting your professional development is my biggest passion.

We may explore:

• Your emerging ideas and body of work.

• Professional identity and the evolution of your practice.

• Creative blocks and resistance.

• Visibility and being seen.

• Confidence and self-trust.

• The relationship between your personal story and professional calling.

• Bringing an idea into tangible form.

• The places where fear, perfectionism or old conditioning may interrupt your movement.

• What needs to gestate before you act.

• What is asking to be released so something new can emerge.

There is room for practical thinking here.

There is also room for mystery.

For gestation.

For not knowing.

For following the thread before you know where it leads.

🌙 Strategy & Soul

Mentorship with me is not about giving you a formula and telling you what to do.

It is about helping you find the shape of what is already trying to emerge.

We can think strategically. We can map ideas.

We can look at offerings, positioning, professional direction and next steps.

But we also listen underneath the strategy.

Does this actually belong to you?

Does it have life in it?

Are you building from fear or from something deeper?

What wants to be born?

Sometimes the next step is action.

Sometimes the next step is waiting.

Sometimes the next step is letting an old identity die.

The work is learning to tell the difference.

🌀 THE ANCIENT MOTHER SPIRAL LIMINAL PATH

A way of understanding professional transformation

This is where I would make an important distinction.

The Liminal Path is not another separate professional service.

It is the way I understand transformation. it is Rooted in my CORE Philosophy and Orientation to the world. People working with me for longer time, naturally move towards this Deeper states of Consciousness ... where the illusionary separation between outside and inside truly reveals.

My own understanding of professional and personal transformation is deeply influenced by the Spiral, the body of work i have birthed.

We do not always move in a straight line.

We return to familiar places with different eyes.

We revisit old questions.

We discover new layers.

We descend, gestate, emerge, surrender, expand and integrate.

This is why I call this work The Liminal Path.

It is for the threshold moments.

The places where the old map no longer works.

The places where something new is asking for your attention.

The places where you may need someone beside you while you find your next shape. This kind of work is very different in a sense that is more ceremonial, embraces Ritual and a lot more depth. If you feel Ready to walk this then you can explore the Ancient Spiral Programme HERE

My Professional Perspective

I have worked as a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer and facilitator for many years.

I have provided supervision since 2013, supporting trainee and qualified practitioners in their clinical and professional development.

Alongside my formal professional training, my own life, contemplative journey and experience of transformation have profoundly shaped how I understand presence, embodiment, creativity and the therapeutic relationship.

I bring these different strands together carefully. Consciously.

There is room for clinical rigour.

There is room for professional responsibility.

There is room for creativity.

And there is room for mystery. It truly all feels like one seamless movement in the space between us.

Which Is Right For You?

🌿 Choose Supervision if...

You are a trainee or qualified therapist/practitioner and want a professionally grounded space to reflect on your clinical work, your clients, your therapeutic relationships and your own development as a practitioner.

🔥 Choose Mentorship if...

You are developing a body of work, navigating a professional threshold, creating something new or seeking deeper support around your direction, vocation and professional evolution.

If you're not sure which is right for you, you don't need to work it out alone.

We can begin with a conversation.

🌀 Choose the Ancient Mother Spiral Programme if...

You feel ready to enter the liminal more deeply — beyond professional development and into a slower, more embodied and ceremonial journey with the Ancient Mother Spiral. This is for those who feel called to work consciously with life transitions, endings, emergence, ritual, archetype, dreams, the body and the deeper mysteries of becoming. It is a more spacious journey, allowing time for descent, gestation, surrender, integration and renewal, rather than seeking quick answers or solutions.

If you feel the call to enter the Spiral as a living map for your life, this may be your deeper doorway. 🌀

A Space to Think, Feel & Become

Whether you come for supervision or mentorship, or the liminality of life, my intention is to create a space where you can slow down enough to hear yourself.

A space where questions are welcome.

Where uncertainty does not have to be immediately resolved.

Where professional development can be rigorous without becoming rigid.

And where the practitioner is remembered as a whole human being.

Your work matters.

And so does the person who is doing it.

Get In Touch

If something here resonates, you're warmly invited to contact me.

We can talk about where you are, what you're looking for and whether the way I work feels like a good fit.