Supervision details
I approach supervision from the perspective of support, encouragement, compassion and growth. To do this, I collaborate with supervisees to enjoy their work and to be the best they can be.
My focus is very much on being a resource that supervisees can access to strengthen and develop their work in a range of areas including professional standards, ethics, law and ways of connecting successfully with clients.
Supervisees often choose to work with me for the following reasons:
- You are a trainee looking for supervision from a supervisor who understands the requirements of your course
- You are a manager of a counselling service
- You are working with clients experiencing challenges with their mental health
- You are setting up in private practice and looking for guidance with this
- You are considering teaching counselling
- You are experiencing a professional challenge and would like some guidance and support through it
- You need a supervisor who you feel safe with and trust to collaborate with.
This might make me sound very formal and rigid but I'm not! My core training as a person-centred counsellor and extensive experience working integratively underpins my approach. I believe that supervision should be energising and enthusing and I strive to achieve that with reflection, gentle challenge and humour!
To provide some context, I'm an experienced BACP accredited counsellor having been in practice for over 30 years. I've also spent over 25 years supporting counsellors within their practice and trainees throughout their training.
My whole career has focused on mental health in one way or another. I completed my training as a mental health nurse in 1987 and my counselling training in 1993. I've worked as a counsellor and clinical supervisor in posts within the NHS, colleges, private practice and charitable organisations.
I was a lecturer in counselling for 25 years when I authored and delivered a BACP Approved route to registration.
I have also written three text books and numerous national counselling qualifications.
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.
