Shiatsu Supervision and
Practitioner Mentoring
Developing, growing and sustaining your shiatsu practice
‘Keith’s warm, skilful and gently guiding supervision has a wonderful way of helping me get to the root of triggers or the feeling of stuckness that can affect my ability to meet and work with clients. -
Cheryl Jenkins (Shiatsu Practitioner and Somatic Psychotherapist)
Create a full and thriving practice
I offer professional Shiatsu supervision, practitioner mentoring and therapeutic coaching for Shiatsu practitioners and other therapists. Whether you are newly qualified or have many years of experience, supervision can help deepen your clinical work, strengthen your confidence, sustain your wellbeing and support the growth of a thriving practice.
My approach to supervision has grown out of more than four decades of clinical practice, teaching and personal inquiry. While we will naturally explore client work, I am equally interested in you as the practitioner. Together we pay attention to the subtle relational field between you and your clients, your embodied responses, your intuition, and the deeper patterns that shape your way of practising. Supervision becomes more than case discussion, it becomes a place where your own growth and the evolution of your practice unfold together.
I believe that with the right approach and mindset along with the right kind of support you can have a successful practice in shiatsu or any other healing modality that is enjoyable and rewarding both emotionally and financially.
Supervision and support are an essential part of keeping your practice vibrant and alive and ensuring a deep and authentic connection with yourself and your clients in your practice. The places that you may feel difficulty, in and with, your practice are the places that you have yet to discover further gold that will bring freshness and depth to your practice, once attended to.
Regular Shiatsu supervision is an important part of any therapeutic practice and is essential for ensuring one's psychological and emotional wellbeing.
Imagine ending your day of giving shiatsu treatments energized, revitalized and inspired. Imagine looking ahead at a full diary of appointments of clients. Imagine the satisfaction of earning a decent income from your practice.
Transforming Your Practice
There are three areas that can be included in and reflected on in our supervision work together.
Ongoing Shiatsu Supervision to keep your practice vibrant and aligned with your wants and needs; A practice that is healthy, sustainable and flourishing in service to your clients and nourishing and fulfilling to you. It also includes therapeutically attending to issues and challenges that arise in you in relation to individual clients and exploring themes and patterns emerging in your practice
Enlivening and Renewing your Shiatsu Practice - A conscious transformation and renewal of your practice, supporting you in your stepping into a fuller expression of who you want to be in your shiatsu practice.
Growing your Shiatsu Practice - Generating and attracting more clients - Working with your vision of the size of practice that you want, including breaking through the blocks and obstacles in the way to your having the size of practice that you want.
Our work together
Every aspect of this work has emerged from 45 years of clinical practice, teaching, and accompanying people through profound processes of healing and transformation.
Working with me offers an opportunity to deepen and revitalise your shiatsu practice while awakening new qualities within yourself. Sessions can focus on different areas depending on your needs, whether for short-term clarity and support or ongoing development through regular meetings.
Our work together supports a transformative process—reconnecting you with your passion, purpose, and inner depth. A successful practice is rooted in authentic presence, conscious engagement, and a strong connection to your inner self.
We will explore and transform limiting beliefs, emotional blocks, and resistance that may be holding you back. By working at the edge where vulnerability and potential meet, you can access new possibilities, align more closely with your purpose, and rediscover your confidence and self-worth.
The process recognises that you already have what you need within you; the aim is to help you realise, embody, and express this more fully in your practice, allowing your unique gifts to flourish.
An old idea is that, the ‘world needs you and your gifts’; perhaps now is the time to hear more completely what calls to you from the inside and what longs for you from the outside.
Who is this Supervision for
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Newly qualified practitioners
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Experienced practitioners
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Therapists wanting deeper relational work
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Practitioners rebuilding confidence
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Practitioners wanting to grow their client base
Whether you are looking to deepen your clinical work, regain confidence, prevent burnout or build a thriving Shiatsu practice, supervision offers a supportive space in which both you and your work can continue to grow.
Many practitioners also choose to explore my Transformational Dialogue work -https://www.keithphillips.co/Transformational-dialogue
You may also be interested in my Postgraduate Shiatsu Training - https://www.keithphillips.co/shiatsu-postgraduate-training
See below for a complimentary chapter - 'Shiatsu and the Soul' from my forthcoming book 'Shiatsu Transformed'
My dialogue sessions with Keith have been both transforming and restorative.
Keith’s deep holding allows me to completely let go and tune in to what's really going on for me. He goes into the darkness with me and, when I get stuck or lose my way and I can't see the wood for the trees, he will intuitively say just enough to enable me to go down a little deeper, allowing me to connect to deep inner truths that had been hidden from view.
Keith is brilliant at what he does. A unique dialogue therapy that communicates directly with the heart and soul.
Paula
‘Going to see Keith, for me, is a treasured experience. He holds the space with integrity and there is always a feeling of deep trust in the room for me, even when I'm facing really challenging stuff in myself.
His skill, which is from many years experience, to help others go deeper into themselves and take a look at what is going on, is unique, guided by compassionate yet clear questions and his reassuring presence in the room. I love how he helps me see that all of what I feel has a place here, as I keep opening to love myself and all I am going through in life a little deeper’.
He always honours others' journeys, whilst helping us all to see we are more than any suffering or pain we may be going through, and for that I am deeply grateful to him."
Sarah Churcher
‘I came to see Keith for support to step into what I want to offer in my work as a Shiatsu Practitioner and Movement Artist. I came away feeling seen, heard and gently guided to see and hear my Soul’s needs. I experienced how healing it is, to feel a deeper connection to myself; my strength and vulnerability and my body while being in relationship with another.
I feel deeply supported with a growing capacity to relate to what arises as I navigate the Soul territory. I am learning to appreciate what is holding me back and be more open to what I can offer; experiencing both the potential and the difficulty with equal love and curiosity.
Ever since I have known Keith, I have been inspired by his big heart and his honesty. Showing up in a real way in the experience of what it is to be human, this is a huge gift’.
Kate Coombs
My dialogue sessions with Keith have been both transforming and restorative.
Keith’s deep holding allows me to completely let go and tune in to what's really going on for me. He goes into the darkness with me and, when I get stuck or lose my way and I can't see the wood for the trees, he will intuitively say just enough to enable me to go down a little deeper, allowing me to connect to deep inner truths that had been hidden from view.
Keith is brilliant at what he does. A unique dialogue therapy that communicates directly with the heart and soul.
‘Keith’s warm, skilful and gently guiding supervision has a wonderful way of helping me get to the root of triggers or the feeling of stuckness that can affect my ability to meet and work with clients.
I may arrive in my sessions with Keith feeling affected, overwhelmed, lost or stuck, but I always leave feeling free, inspired, and clear about my way forward.
Subsequently, I reconnect more deeply with my clients bringing a greater sense of space, support, and a deeper presence to the unfolding in each session. As a result my shiatsu practice is a constant source of joy, inspiration and connection - thank you Keith’!
Cheryl Jenkins