Supervision details
I see supervision as a place to think. Somewhere you can bring the work that stays with you, the client you feel stuck with, the session that didn't go as expected, or the uncomfortable sense that something is happening that you haven't quite understood yet. It is also a place to notice what is going well. I think we learn from the work that goes well too, and those moments deserve our attention.
I work collaboratively and with curiosity. I won't expect you to practise as I do or assume there is one right way of understanding a client. I am interested in what you notice, what you might not be noticing, and what may be happening between you and the person you are working with. At times I may offer a different perspective or challenge your thinking. At others, we may need to sit with uncertainty rather than rush to resolve it.
I am a BACP Senior Accredited integrative psychotherapist with over 15 years' clinical experience. I have worked across private practice, charities and specialist services, with particular experience in trauma and more than five years providing psychotherapy to serving and retired police officers. This breadth of experience informs my supervision, while leaving room for you to develop your own way of working.
I think good supervision needs room for the therapist as well as the client. The work affects us. Our own responses, assumptions and experiences can enter the room, sometimes in ways that are useful and sometimes in ways we need to understand. Supervision gives us somewhere to be curious about this without losing sight of the client, the therapeutic relationship or our ethical responsibilities.
I want supervision to be somewhere you can say when something has gone wrong, when you don't know what to do, or when you are questioning yourself. Equally, I want to hear about the session that went particularly well, the moment something shifted, or something you handled differently and felt pleased with. There needs to be room to recognise what you are doing well and how you are developing as a therapist.
I hold a Level 7 Certificate in Clinical Supervision from the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy and work within the BACP Ethical Framework. I offer online supervision to qualified therapists and counsellors.
I charge £75 per 90 minutes with every 30 minutes thereafter at an additional cost of £25.
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
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