Supervision details
The purpose of supervision is to help you do your best work. My supervision approach is part training, part care for you as a professional, and part care for your clients. My style is compassionate and attentive, focusing on you both as an individual and as a practitioner.
I believe effective supervision is essential for therapists and coaches. At its best, supervision is built on a strong, trusting relationship between supervisor and supervisee, one where you feel comfortable sharing mistakes, raising concerns, asking questions, and feeling genuinely supported and encouraged in your work and development.
I describe my supervision as being used for three things. I break these three things into 50 / 30 / 20.
50% - Reflective exploration: Using counselling skills to support you as a whole person and as a professional. We explore your responses, your experiences, what the work brings up in you and what you need to remain psychologically resourced, emotionally well and genuinely fulfilled in your practice.
30% - Clinical and professional guidance: Drawing on my experience as a psychotherapist, coach and mediator to think carefully through client work, ethical dilemmas, approaches and interventions. This is a space for the kind of rigorous, honest clinical thinking that independent practice doesn't always make easy.
20% - Practice mentorship: Supporting you as a practitioner building and sustaining an independent practice — including the structures, boundaries, systems and professional decisions that determine whether your work remains ethical, rewarding and sustainable over the long term.
I am most suited to supervise psychotherapists, counsellors, coaches and mentors, at any stage of their careers, who work with adults.
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.
