Brenda Clowes
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Supervision details
I have been a BACP accredited Supervisor for over 25 years and am currently supervising counsellors working in many settings including Bereavement Services, Psychotherapy Clinics, Couple and Psychosexual and Relationship Counselling in Private Practice and Individual Counselling, in short or long term work.I am Integrative in my approach to counselling and to supervision. I like to think psychodynamically taking the unconscious into account but to use the skills of other orientations as wellThe model that chimes most with my way of seeing supervision is that of Hawkins and Shohet described as 'A Process Model of Supervision'. I am also concerned for the further development of the counsellor, encouraging new experiences, helping with accreditation applications, and supporting those who wish to become supervisors themselves. ( With access to Zoom and FaceTime supervision on line can cut out the journey for busy counsellors but there is nothing quite like face-to-face) Supervision of Supervision:What has always been good practice is now becoming a requirement. Supervision of supervision is not only a requirement it can reveal hidden elements of the work which are played out in this extra dimension
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).
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