Supervision details
I have a Post Graduate Diploma in Person-Centred Supervision and am a BACP Accredited Supervisor/ Specialist Supervisor.
My experience includes supervising counsellors and professionals working at organisations such as Broadreach and The Zone, Haye Mill, Counsellors Southwest, Kooth, Plymouth Marjon University, Derriford Hospital Occupational Health, The Margaret Jackson Centre. I also supervise counsellors/psychotherapists working in private practice.
Not only do I supervise counsellors and psychotherapists, but I also supervise other professionals such as health workers, social workers, mental health occupational therapists, specialist mentors in higher education and addiction support workers.
I see my task as providing you with a relationship in which:
- You are free to explore your practice and discover what you want to learn from it.
- You feel safe enough to talk about practice which you feel has not gone well as well as practice that feels to have been
good. - You can explore and experience your personal self, alongside the development of your professional self (and any
tensions you may experience between the two). - You experience my empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence.
- I offer my knowledge and expertise
- You feel supported with ethical and legal tensions that arise within your work.
As a Person-Centred supervisor, my focus is on you as a person. We will look together at your processes, meaning making and experiences.
I aim to accompany you while you explore your work in an environment of trust, confidentiality, safety and good humour. I believe professional growth, confidence and joy can be fostered from being fully encountered by a supervisor with whom you relate profoundly.
I offer the core conditions of empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence, whilst also offering my practice wisdom, including expertise knowledge accumulated from twenty-five years of experience and training
“Wisdom in Greek was Sophia, as in our word “philosophy”, love of wisdom. Sophia had a most practical meaning, referring originally to the crafts of handling things, especially to the helmsman who steers the boat. The wise one steers well; the wisdom of the helmsman shows in the art of making minor adjustments in accord with accidents of water, wind and weight.”
Hillman (1996), The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling
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.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. 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
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.
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.
