Melanie Musson
Every professional displayed on Counselling Directory has been independently verified by our team to ensure they have suitable credentials to practise.
This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
Supervision details
I am a qualified, experienced supervisor and work on either a one-to-one basis or within a group, depending on preference. The supervision I offer is person-centred, although I am happy to work with qualified counsellors who draw from any approach. I am also experienced at working with counsellors in training and have previously been a tutor and lecturer in counselling and psychotherapy for Middlesex University. I am therefore able to support trainees on their path to becoming qualified counsellors and am aware of some of the challenges that can be experienced along the way.My supervision philosophy: I aim to work towards a collaborative relationship of trust that is both challenging and supportive, underpinned with mutual openness, respect and understanding. Enabling supervision to be empowering of the counsellor and a place where s/he feels able to explore any areas of concern or difficulty in the knowledge that the purpose of the work is to assist in counsellor development, rather than to be in judgement thereof. In practice this means helping supervisees to explore general case work or specific ethical issues within their client relationships, with a view to finding a way forward that has both the client and counsellor’s safety and well-being as paramount.More information:Supervision is provided in a comfortable, professional practice conveniently located in central Winchester. For more information about the way that I work, please visit the Westgate Counselling web site at www.westgatecounselling.co.uk. Alternatively, please call or email to arrange an initial introductory session to answer any questions you may have and get a feel as to whether we would like to work together.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
