Coaching Supervision

Coaching Supervision

ICF Coaching Supervision

A Space to Reflect, Replenish, and Grow

Coaching supervision is a confidential, supportive space to reflect on your coaching practice and gain insight into who you are being as a coach. Together, we can explore what may be happening beneath the surface: your beliefs, insecurities, triggers, questions, and concerns—as well as the patterns, possibilities, and learning that emerge through your work with clients.

This is a space to support and encourage you—not to judge or evaluate you. It is a collaborative professional partnership that supports your learning, wellbeing, ethical discernment, and continued growth as a coach. As coaches, we bring a great deal of care, presence, and energy to supporting our clients’ growth and wellbeing. Supervision gives you a place to pause, replenish, and refuel—so you can continue bringing your best to your clients while staying energized by the work you love.

What Happens in a Coaching Supervision Session?

In a coaching supervision session, you bring what feels most important or alive in your practice at that time. This might be a particular client engagement, a theme you are noticing across multiple clients, or an ethical question you are facing.

Together, we reflect on what is happening—both in the client work and within you as the coach. We may explore what feels difficult, what is staying with you, what is being evoked in you, or what you may not yet be seeing.

Common areas of exploration include:

  • A client relationship that feels challenging, stuck, or especially meaningful
  • Patterns showing up across several client engagements
  • Boundaries, contracting, confidentiality, or ethical questions
  • Your own reactions, assumptions, beliefs, or triggers
  • The impact of coaching work on your energy, confidence, or wellbeing
  • A desire to deepen your presence, awareness, and sustainable practice

A Partnership, Not a Hierarchy

The word supervision can carry associations that may feel quite different from the reflective, collaborative nature of coaching supervision. For that reason, people in the coaching world sometimes use the term Super-Vision, meaning an opportunity to gain a clearer, more expansive view.

The supervision relationship is a peer relationship. You are the expert on your clients and your experience; I bring my own experience, perspective, curiosity, and care. I share openly from what I see and know, and we collaborate to help you gain the insights you are looking for.

What is Unique About Coaching Supervision?

How Is Coaching Supervision Different From Personal and Professional Coaching? There is naturally some overlap between coaching and supervision. I draw on many of the same skills I use as an MCC coach—deep listening, curiosity, presence, and partnership.

The difference is where we place our attention. In personal and professional coaching, the focus is on your life and career goals, relationships, business, or personal development. In coaching supervision, our focus is your coaching practice: your work with clients, your experience of that work, and the insights that may support your continued growth as a coach.

How Is Coaching Supervision Different From Mentor Coaching? Coaching supervision and mentor coaching can complement one another, but they serve different purposes.

Some mentoring may naturally occur in a supervision relationship as we talk about client situations and different approaches you might explore. Yet mentor coaching for ICF credentialing is more structured around skills development and typically involves sharing recordings of coaching sessions for feedback.

In supervision, recordings are not required. Instead, we reflect together on your experiences with clients and the broader themes arising in your practice.

ICF and Coaching Supervision

Does the ICF require coaching supervision? Coaching supervision is not currently a general requirement for ICF credential holders. However, ICF credential holders may count up to 10 hours of coaching supervision—whether received, delivered, or a combination—toward Core Competency Continuing Coach Education (CCE) requirements for credential renewal.

For the latest information, visit ICF’s Coaching Supervision page.

” As my coach supervisor, Lauren has offered profound insights as I have stretched into becoming a more fully present professional coach. Her natural intuition and curiosity, gentle yet meaningful observations, and ability to listen deeply to what is being said—and not being said—have helped me gain confidence, boldness, and greater acumen in the art and science of coaching.”  — Pamela Kudlick, PCC

Fees and Working Together

Individual coaching supervision is offered in 60-minute sessions at $250 per session. For coaches who would like the continuity of an ongoing supervisory relationship, I offer two options:

  • Five-Session Supervision Package — $1,175, scheduled within six months.

  • A Year of Coaching Supervision — $2,200, including 10 sessions scheduled within 12 months.

Sessions are typically scheduled monthly, though the timing can be adjusted to reflect the nature and complexity of your coaching work, client commitments, and the support that would be most useful. Meeting over time allows our conversations to build on one another as you reflect on your clients, your practice, and your own presence as a coach.

Explore Whether Coaching Supervision Is Right for You

If you are curious about whether coaching supervision would be supportive at this point in your practice—and whether we might work well together—I invite you to contact me to set up a complimentary 30-minute conversation.

I’d be delighted to chat with you!