Sue Akehurst
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Supervision details
In 2004 I trained with Temenos as a supervisor working within the Person Centred Approach and have been supervising counsellors, including students, and other professionals working in the care sector since 2003. Current supervision contracts include Universities, Hospices & Bereavement Services as well as Sixth Form College counsellors. I also supervise individuals in private practice. I aim to offer an accepting, non judgemental space in which to explore all aspects of practice, a co-created space which has the potential to enrich and challenge practice whilst keeping the client's best interests firmly at the centre of our work. I draw on the 7 eyed model of supervision which supports us to think about both systemic and relational aspects of our work.
I have trained in various creative and expressive forms of therapy which I bring to the supervisory relationship. Please feel free to contact me for more information or an informal chat about supervision.
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.
