Ruth McIlroy

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Reg NCPS (Snr Accred) Counsellor and Supervisor
Available for new clients
Available for new clients

This professional is available for new clients.

location_on Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66
Available for new clients
Available for new clients

This professional is available for new clients.

Supervision details

I'm a Reg NCPS (Snr Accred) Counsellor and Supervisor with more than 20 years NHS and private practice experience. I offer supervision for post-qualification person-centred, relational and humanistic counsellors/therapists, and practitioners in other helping professions.

My aim as a supervisor is to help you develop your practice, and to offer a safe and stimulating space in which you can share both successes and dilemmas. I would hope you could use supervision with me to develop as a practitioner in a creative space, becoming increasingly reflective about your work, building your own best practice, and finding your skills, confidence and effectiveness as a practitioner developing.

I would hope to encourage you to explore work with clients without feeling defensive or judged. You may also wish to be open to a fresh perspective on your practice, and may appreciate appropriate challenge in the spirit of mutual interest in developing your learning edge, and self-enquiry as to best practice.

I have been supervising since 2012, offering individual and group supervision to counsellors/therapists in private practice, to NHS staff, to staff in counselling agencies, and to non-counsellor helping professionals.

When online, I use equipment with firewalls, virus protection and password protection, and in person work is from private dedicated counselling/supervision spaces. 

Supervision is offered at a fee of £55 per hour.  

Choosing the right supervisor is important to your practice. I welcome you to come and talk openly and freely about your supervision needs in a non-chargeable half hour session.

I appear on the The Anti-Discrimination Race Aware Directory (https://tadf.co.uk/)  

NCPS
National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)

The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society

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In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.

Accredited register membership

National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society
Accredited Register Scheme

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Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66

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Type of session

In person
Online

NCPS(Snr Accred) Supervisor. I work in a relational, creative way, supporting your practice both collaboratively and in an enquiring/challenging mode.