SUPERVISION FOR FORENSIC PRACTITIONERS

Dr Kerri Garbutt provides specialist supervision for psychologists, probation officers, social workers, and practitioners working within forensic, criminal justice, and high-risk clinical settings. This supervision supports those managing complex cases involving violence, sexual harm, trauma, personality disorder, risk formulation and behavioural change. 

 I offer supervision for those working in:

• Forensic psychology and criminal justice services
   
• Probation, parole, MAPPA and Local Authority safeguarding
   
• Secure hospitals, prisons, personality disorder services (DSPD, PD Pathways)
   
• Community forensic services and high-risk teams
   

Supervision is suitable for experienced practitioners, senior clinicians, managers and those seeking clinical consultation beyond basic reflective practice.

• Risk formulation and offence-related behaviour
   
• Working with violence, sexual harm and high-risk relational patterns
   
• Management of shame, accountability and denial
   
• Professional boundaries, defensiveness and burnout
   
• Team dynamics and institutional pressures 

Supervision draws on forensic-clinical frameworks including Schema Therapy, IFS, EMDR, DBT, CFT and trauma-informed practice. It is analytical, supportive and ethically robust — balancing clinical depth with personal resilience.

I also bring experience from delivering and supervising national offending behaviour programmes, alongside reflective practice for high-pressure professional environments.

This is not legal oversight or medico-legal opinion. It is clinical supervision designed to support safe, ethical, reflective and effective practice when working with risk and harm.