Supervision details
I am an experienced BACP Accredited Person-Centred Counsellor, having been qualified for 15 years and a supervisor for 7 years. I am the Counselling Coordinator for a Charity supporting women and girls. I am counselling women and young people around the diversity of issues they bring. My background is also in education in a supportive role, where I have 24 years experience working with SEND, especially ADHD, ASC, learning and physical disability and young people with social, emotional and behavioural issues. I provide supervision for counsellors working with both adults, children and young people.
As a supervisor I aim to support you to work ethically within the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice & with a focus on professional development, working with your skills and strengths. I aim to provide a safe environment for you to explore your practice and client work and will encourage you to work creatively, to reflect and focus on themes and issues raised within counselling sessions.
I wish you to feel supported and so we will look at self-care and your well-being. You will be able to explore any personal issues that may be a barrier to you working with clients or how they may impact on your practice. In the same way that a goal of counselling can be said to empower the client, through supervision I hope you will be empowered and grow in confidence and competence.
I will aim to support you to become that trustworthy, calm and grounded professional, who can ‘hold’ and be alongside their clients while they express their feelings and experiences.
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.
