Dr Joanne Brown
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Supervision details
I offer supervision to practitioners working with a Psychodynamic or Integrative approach. I have worked with clinicians in a variety of practice settings and understand how rewarding, but also emotionally demanding therapeutic work can be. The supervisory relationship is crucial to providing containment for this work and for thinking about how to help clients to develop insight into what might be painful in their lives and preventing change. I have supervised counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists working in private and institutional settings. I have also supervised clinicians doing postgraduate research into their practice (in CAMHs, forensic settings, acute wards, therapeutic services, etc.) and I have trained clinicians in supervision skills at Southampton University. My academic work has been in the mental health and therapeutic field and I have taught psychological therapies to clinicians from diverse fields. I have acted as a PhD examiner in the field of mental health and psychotherapy at numerous universities in the UK. This academic work keeps my knowledge current and also open to how mental health work varies across different settings and modalities. I continue to publish in the field of mental health, counselling and psychosocial studies. What is often most valued by the clinicians I have worked with is a quiet, reflective space in which to be free to think. What is crucial to any supervisory relationship is the creation of a safe and secure space in which to find time to reflect and enjoy thinking about what is privileged, but sometimes challenging work. You can choose how to use the space. It might vary from focused case work to more general or restorative sessions focused on how you are impacted by the work. The two are often intertwined of course.
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.
