Supervision details
I am a qualified supervisor and have been working in supervision for the past 19 years. I work with supervisees supporting clients with a wide range of issues, including mental health difficulties, relationship issues and trauma. My supervisees work across a variety of settings, including private practice, voluntary organisations and the NHS.
I have also supervised many counselling students from local further education colleges completing Foundation Degrees in Counselling. In addition to holding a Supervision Certificate, I am an EMDR Accredited Consultant and work with a wide range of EMDR therapists.
I work with both trainee and experienced therapists, offering a supportive, collaborative and non-judgemental space where supervisees can reflect openly on their client work, professional development and wellbeing. I understand the importance of balancing ethical and clinical responsibilities alongside the emotional impact that therapeutic work can have on practitioners.
For me, supervision is a collaborative working relationship that offers counsellors the opportunity for in-depth reflective practice in relation to their client work. My role as a supervisor is to facilitate this process through empathetic, therapeutic and ethical practice, supporting counsellors to maximise their competence, confidence and professional growth.
Through supervision, supervisees are encouraged to develop greater awareness of both their personal and professional needs, helping to support their ongoing development as reflective and resilient practitioners. I value creating a safe and trusting supervisory relationship where individuality, diversity and different ways of working are respected.
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.
