Level 6 OCN London course in counselling supervision

This course is open to all counsellors trained to diploma level (level 4) in any modality, with at least two years’ post qualification experience and 450 hours of supervised client hours (including those gained whilst a student counsellor), who are receiving supervision for a minimum of 1.5 hours per month, a member of a counselling professional body and have attended our one-day workshop 'Reflective Practice in Counselling Supervision' at any point in the last three years - we can arrange for you to attend this training in a small group with Stephan, our trainer, before our course starts in September if you have not already attended it, as the workshop has already been held earlier this year. Please don't let this put you off enquiring about the course.

Course outline

This course aims to provide a clear and relevant understanding of the professional knowledge and skills needed to be an effective counselling supervisor within the changing and diverse environment of present-day counselling psychology.

The course will incorporate the key counselling supervision skills highlighted in the BACP counselling supervision curriculum framework so that learners are able to effectively build their practice in counselling supervision in line with the current expectations of the profession.

In addition, it will also actively engage participants with the BACP ethical framework and apply it to best practice in counselling supervision.

Using both theory and practical activities, the course will encourage individual and group learning and will be ideal for those who recognise the importance of experiential and practical learning.

Participants will be expected to take responsibility for their own learning. Our facilitator will use communicative education techniques throughout, and participants must be willing to engage with all the group members during all group activities to further advance all participants' learning, as practice time is built into every session and assessment is carried out throughout the course.

Whilst a course guide will be provided on day one, and a workbook will be provided for each session, alongside recommended reading, the title of each day is given below.

• Session one: The Importance of the Context in Counselling Supervision.
• Session two: Models in Counselling Supervision.
• Session three: The Counselling Supervisory Relationship.
• Session four: Professional and Personal limitations in Counselling Supervision.
• Session five: Communication in Counselling Supervision.
• Session six: Dilemmas in Counselling Supervision.
• Session seven: Best Practice in Counselling Supervision.
• Session eight: Group Supervision and Other Supervision Possibilities.
• Session nine: Using Professional Intimacy to Enhance Counselling Supervision.
• Session ten: Amalgamation of learning and Areas for future development.
• Session eleven: Chosen supervision models and a chance to explore one’s chosen model.
• Session twelve: Discussion on learning, tutorials, celebration.

Our course facilitator Stephan Dais holds an MA in group and intercultural therapy and an advanced diploma in humanistic counselling, and has a wide experience in the counselling and supervising world.

Stephan facilitated our 2017 supervisor’s diploma and is currently facilitating our 2018-2019 OCN London level 6 course in counselling supervision. He has facilitated many workshops for CB Counsellor Training over the last nine years, looking at subjects including gender and sexuality, domestic and intimate partner abuse and pornography. He is a popular, knowledgeable facilitator, who brings a wealth of knowledge to this course, including that of supervising a diverse range of counsellors in a wide variety of settings since 2003.

In addition to his current individual and couple client work, Stephan has also worked in a prison, with the East London Childcare Institute, The Muslim Youth helpline, Islington Mind, The Civil Partnership Group for Same Sex Couples, Amistad, and the Gay and Lesbian Parenting Group, and is a past tutor of both the Metropolitan University and the Newham College University Centre.

Currently, Stephan runs a charity for male victims of various types of domestic abuse and a counselling charity for LGBT asylum seekers, immigrants, migrants, and refugees, and is completing a PhD in counselling psychological work with male victims of domestic violence.