Personal Coach Supervision - Alex van Oostveen

Coach Supervision

Supervision provides opportunities for you to recognise how you approach both your practice and engagement with your clients. It is a supportive and confidential space for talking about the things you find difficult in your experiences as a coach, getting deeper insight into your strengths, and discovering and working on your developmental areas.

In supervision you will recognise patterns emerging from your experiences with clients and your practice as a business.

What is Supervision?

Supervision works with coaches to maintain professional standards, deliver effective and ethical practice, and self-regulation.

More than cognitive problem-solving, it is a space in which to shift your overall relationship with self, clients, and your practice. Through regular supervision we aim for confidence grounded in a solid understanding of how people and organisations work, and the relationships they experience.

Supervision offers

Human connection– sharing with a compassionate, empathetic and caring listener brings enormous relief. Beyond this balancing experience in a session, you will gain a skilful awareness of your own implicit ways of coping with stress. This enables you to prepare for challenges before they cause personal concern, and learn to regulate your responses to client/organisational behaviours and attitudes.
Professional development – gain perspective and insight into the dynamic interactions between yourself, clients, and organisations. Deepen your understanding of practice principles, theory, and frameworks for effective coaching relationships.
Strategic action– plan your use of new knowledge, skills, and attitudes in relevant cases; understand where you are in your professional development journey and plan your path.

How I Work

My coaching and supervision embodies an integrative approach (systems, transactional analysis, Gestalt).

If you would like to learn more about how we can work together, please use the booking facility at the bottom of this page.

I supervise coaches one-to-one in regular 1-hour sessions.

For coaches wanting to learn in community with others, I host regular closed 2-hour supervision groups.

Who Do I Work with?

I work with practitioners in the helping profession (personal and organisational coaches, coach supervisors, coaching psychologists, organisational consultants etc).

If you would like to learn more about how we can work together, schedule a Consultation for Interest in Working Together or use the scheduler at the bottom of the page.

Certifications and Accreditation

I have a Diploma in Coach Supervision and I am accredited as a Senior Practitioner coach (EIA) and supervisor (ESIA) with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).

Client Experiences

I left each group supervision session with Alex being expanded by his role modelling coaching supervision. My horizons were broadened by the individual learning and edge work of participant coaches, by the collective group learning and the sense of community that developed. A warm smile crosses my face, as I recall the clarity of intention and skill with which Alex fostered the coaching supervision environment by using creative structure. He is skilled at applying both supervision and Transactional Analysis theory to help coaches grow in their practice, in themselves as well as areas of vulnerability. I experienced Alex as grounded in his coaching supervision approach and resourceful in sharing knowledge, tools, observations and reading material for growth.

Alex is beyond amazing when it comes to really connecting to the core motivation and challenges I have experienced as a coach. I respect his professionalism and keeping me aligned with ICF core competencies. He goes deep, but carries the conversation with empathy and genuine motivation in helping me find my strengths and desire to continually grow and find what style and methods work for me. Alex has been one of the most significant influences in my coaching journey with SACAP and I appreciate the work he has done to help me maximize my abilities, and compassion to understand the human side of the trials and successes in personal and professional development.

Alex has been my supervisor since my business coaching internship in 2018. I have taken many varied and different things into supervision with Alex, from referrals to incorporating assessments into my coaching practice, to conflicts of interest, and even team coaching with a co-coach. I find Alex to be extremely knowledgeable, especially when it comes to Transactional Analysis (TA), the "7-eyed model of supervision" and other theory he draws from in the moment. Everything I've brought into supervision, we have looked at through the lens of one of these frameworks, and every time I've come away with more insight and awareness of what I am responsible for in these coaching relationship systems. A supervision session feels challenging, insightful and highly rewarding, as long as you work for it and are willing to be honest with yourself in terms of thoughts, feelings, judgments and decisions.

I found my supervision interaction with Alex very useful. Through incisive questions and focussed listening, he helped me gain valuable insights into myself as coach.

Alex has been supervising me for quite a long time, during which he has become an integral and highly valued contributor to my continuous learning and development. Despite the considerable distance between South Africa and Switzerland, I chose Alex as my supervisor because of his remarkably solid academic foundation, strong coaching experience and his straight forward, friendly and results-oriented approach. Coaching supervision is so much more than a tick-box compliance exercise and I cherish my sessions with Alex as opportunities to reflect, challenge my assumptions and design actionable outcomes. I recommend Alex to any professional coach looking for a top-tier, committed and highly competent supervisor.

Alex is an insightful and supportive supervisor. I’ve very much enjoyed working with him as he gently asks thought provoking questions to help me reflect on my coaching practice. Alex adds value to enhance coaching mastery!

I grew in a number of ways through working with Alex as my coaching supervisor. His gently challenging attention kept me focused when I digressed. He is a master of asking questions that nudge (and sometime necessarily push) one forward and I learned a lot from listening to him question fellow coaches in the supervision group as well as from the results I derived from his questioning me. His approach of supervising in groups increased the scope and depth of learning. His broad theoretical knowledge expanded my coaching repertoire and his careful attention to detail and the bigger picture contributed significantly to my unfolding professional development.