Mentoring for Psychologists

 Mentoring for Trainee, Newly Qualified and Experienced Psychologists

Are you looking for an experienced psychologist to help you reflect on your professional development, career direction or wellbeing at work?

National Clinical Psychology Service offers online mentoring through experienced Clinical and Consultant Clinical Psychologists.

Mentoring can provide a supportive, reflective space to consider professional confidence, career decisions, leadership, workplace challenges and future goals.

Whether you are undertaking professional training, developing your career or considering a change of direction, mentoring can be arranged as a one-off consultation or a series of meetings, according to your needs.

Mentoring is distinct from clinical supervision and personal psychological therapy. The purpose, boundaries and expectations can be discussed and agreed at the outset.

Specialist Clinical Psychologists with Extensive Experience, including Consultant Clinical Psychologists available.

We all have a variety of different skills, experiences and approaches to offer you.

Online mentoring sessions are available or in person sessions in selected locations.

Are you a Psychologist seeking a Mentor who can help with your aim to:

• improve your wellbeing and reduce your stress levels through empathic, reflective yet focused conversations
• grow in professional confidence
• plan a path to your professional development, career direction
• consider how much of a leadership and service development role you want to take on
• clearly define your goals and help you progress towards them
• consider the barriers in your way to achieving your desired outcomes at work (whether organisational barriers or within yourself)
• provide a fresh perspective (as our Clinical Psychologists are not embedded in your organisation)
• learn from their wisdom, experience, training and skills to help you move forward in the way you want in your career.

Why not benefit from others’ experience?

Could you benefit from mentoring from a Psychologist?

• Take time to prioritise yourself and your own wellbeing.
• Improve your skills (personal and professional) with a view to improved job & career satisfaction. Please note mentoring is not the same as personal therapy. (There may well be some overlap.)
• Mentoring can help generate ideas for you to consider in relation to unblocking/ overcoming/steering around potential obstacles in your work.

How often does a Psychologist meet with their Mentor?

Mentoring can be offered either on a one-off meeting basis or within an agreed series of meetings. Agreeing a clear contract is usually a good starting point, to clarify roles, expectations, confidentiality, etc.

Who is mentoring for psychologists offered to?

Our Clinical Psychologists have experience of working in the NHS and other systems, including Social Care.

So, Mentoring for psychologists is offered to those working in the NHS, Social care, Charitable third sector organisations, the private independent sector and elsewhere.

Online meetings for Mentoring for Psychologists

• Make use of the ease of online meetings to fit in with your schedule.
• We can help you aim to reach your potential, to work at your personal best.
• Your wellbeing is important in this Mental Health profession.

In person available in selected locations.

More about our individual Clinical Psychologists 

As examples,

Dr David Newman offers mentoring as well as other colleagues

Founder, Dr Jurai Darongkamas, has published on different topics including:

Clinical Supervision building on a well known theoretical model, An eight-eyed version of Hawkins and Shohet’s clinical supervision model: the addition of the cognitive analytic therapy concept of the ‘observing eye/I’ as the ‘observing us’ (cited by many others) and Primary Care Mental Health workers’ views of Clinical Supervision.