Supervision
Do you need someone to hold you
after you hold space for others?
Have you found yourself feeling wobbly after
a challenging client session?
​​I am holding a courageous and supportive space for you to bring what is alive in you, during, and after your sessions.
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How can we better support ethical practitioners working outside of licensed frameworks?
​​​Our work asks a great deal of us. We sit alongside other people’s desire, grief, shame and longing and everything in between, and so much of what moves through our sessions settles into our own bodies.
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Licensed clinicians have a support structure woven into their training from the start.
Many of us are growing our practices without one, and I believe this work is far too needed in the world for us to hold it alone.
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Supervision is where we tend the roots.
Once a month, you bring what you’ve been carrying: the tangled moments, the ruptures, the times you felt yourself activated in session.
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Together we turn it over slowly, the way compost is turned, until what feels like a blockage begins to break down into something that nourishes you and your clients.
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From that richer soil, new growth has room to come through, and you return to your clients steadier, better resourced and the difference in your practice is felt.
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Who is this supervision for?
Supervision is for somatic intimacy coaches, sexological bodyworkers, somatic sex educators, breathwork guides, dance teachers, workshop and group facilitators, community leaders, healers, wellness practitioners, and other sex-positive healing practitioners working outside licensed clinical frameworks.
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You might be newly in practice or many years in. You might work 1:1, with couples or with groups. What you share is a commitment to doing this work with integrity and a willingness to look honestly at yourself within it.
What can you bring to supervision?
Bring whatever is alive in your practice.
Supervisees often arrive with:
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Ethical dilemmas and grey areas
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Receiving difficult feedback
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Ruptures and repair with clients or colleagues
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Transference and countertransference
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Your own activation in session
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Feeling at an impasse with a client
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Wanting to learn how to facilitate group spaces better
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Curious about how to move a vision into a workshop
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Boundaries, dual relationships and the overlaps of small communities
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Types of power and your role with enhanced power.
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Self-disclosure: when, how much and why?
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Beginnings, endings and transitions with clients
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Consent agreements, intake and documentation
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Brain-storming ways to market, and grow your business
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Scope of practice and knowing when to refer
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Pricing, money and power, including the ethics of sliding scale
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Burnout, resourcing and your own pleasure as a practitioner
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Wanting to become a more embodied practitioner
What guides my supervision practice?
The unregulated fields of sexuality and unlicensed healing work, has experienced so much abuse, misuses of power, and dysfunction and is in desperate need of ethical, embodied community of practitioners supporting each other. This next step in my service to the field of sexuality is supervision to support deeply embodied ethics and integrity in this field.
After more than 2000 hours of professional training and 7 years in practice, I have been training as a Somatic Sex Educator and Supervisor with Relational Harmony Institute since February 2025. I am due to graduate in February 2027. ​
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Our sessions draw on the Right Use of Power framework and the Seven Eyed Model of Supervision, alongside The Wheel of Consent and somatic coaching tools, such as body focusing and Body Poem.
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Right Use of Power offers a lens for the power that lives in every helping relationship: the power you hold with your clients, and the power I hold with you. Awareness of power dynamics is essential if we wish to use our power wisely. We look at it with curiosity and care, so it can be used well, so you can learn when to stand in it more, when to lean back, and to support your client to stand firmer in theirs.
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The Seven Eyed Model of Supervision help us shine a light on what is happening with you, your relationship with your client, how that reflects in other areas of your life, your inner experience, transference and counter transference, and the greater context and lived experience that you and your client arrive in the session with. Being able to look at yourself, your shadow, and your work through multiple angles creates spaciousness, lessens tension, and helps you become more creative in how you hold your sessions to support your client’s growth.
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We work with your body as well as the stories. Somatic tools help you notice what is happening in your body, sometimes before words can form to explain, and you can learn to listen to the body’s story, underneath the mind’s story.
A note on scope of practice
This is power informed integrative supervision for practitioners working outside licensed clinical frameworks, particularly sex positive practitioners. It is separate from clinical supervision toward licensure, and it does not replace therapy, legal advice or the requirements of any professional body you belong to.
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I am in my final 4 months of a 2 year professional supervision training and am due to certify in February 2027, with The Relational Harmony Institute. I am under the supervision of Katie Sarra and Phoebe Garland, the co-directors of the institute. I commit to staying in integrity with my offering and if I feel that what you bring to supervision is out of my scope of practice, I will let you know and we can discuss what happens next.
About Emerald May
I'm Emerald May, a somatic intimacy coach, bodyworker and breathwork coach, and the founder of Rooted Pleasure. My practice is trauma-informed and rests on more than 2,000 hours of professional training and 7 years of professional practice in somatic sex education, sexological bodywork, conscious connected breathwork, functional breathwork, the Wheel of Consent, and Right Use of Power.
Since February 2025 I have been training as a supervisor with the Relational Harmony Institute. I offer supervision because practitioners in our field so often hold this tender, complex work alone, and every one of us needs a network of support, in community, to help us see and integrate what we cannot alone.
Best Value
One off Supervision Session
100
An opportunity to reflect and process what is alive in your client sessions
Valid for one month
One 75 minute supervision session
Explore the challenges you have with clients
Release old patterns of relating to yourself & your business
Best Value
4-month Supervision LAUNCH OFFER
380
Four supervision sessions to support your client work over four months.
Valid for 4 months
1:1 supervision sessions
Four 75-min sessions included
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