LJ Potter - supervisor

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Psychotherapists and Counsellors

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

As a supervisor, therapist and human being, I believe that we are the experts of ourselves. I take an affirmative stance towards gender, sexuality and identity in general in my work, believing that I am the person who knows most about me, not someone else, and that the person in front of me is the person who knows most about themself. 'Affirmative' for me here means that I affirm your right to decide who you are, and as that changes (for who of us is the same person we were 10, 20, 30+ years ago?), I will continue to affirm your right to be that person also.

My job as supervisor is to help facilitate the unpicking that occurs around the supervisee's relationship to client work, topics that arise, and the supervision work itself. It's not to provide 'therapy' or to tell the supervisee how they're getting it wrong.

Sexual identity:

Ace | Asexual
Bi- | Pansexual
Kink - BDSM
Other
Queer

Gender identity: Non-binary

Gender history: Not as assigned at birth

Non-monogamy: Yes

Intersex: No

Trans: Yes

Neurodivergent: Yes

Personal pronouns: I just use my name

Qualifications - Links to websites:

www.thecomfortablechair.co.uk - I am in the process of updating this to include my supervision work, but it gives you a flavour of who I am

LJ Potter - NCPS

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award

Experience and approach:

My approach to supervision is person-centred. I place value on the relationship the supervisee has with me, and on what the supervisee wants to bring. I work primarily with person-centred therapists (or therapists wanting to work more in a person-centred way) and tend to believe that clear empathic understanding and communication is necessary for the client work to have positive outcomes.

I'm mid-way through a training on supervision with Janet Tolan, although I have been required to hold counselling students in supervision groups as part of my academic career, for several years. I expect to qualify in early spring 2026. As such I may not be considered suitable for trainees wanting to approach me for therapy, although there is no BACP or NCPS requirement that says trainees can't see a trainee supervisor (just that the person providing supervision must have adequate qualifications an/OR experience).

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