Supervision details
Finding the right supervisor is an important part of developing and maintaining safe, ethical and effective counselling practice. I offer supportive, collaborative and reflective clinical supervision, providing a safe space where you can explore your client work openly, consider what may be happening within the therapeutic relationship and develop your confidence as a practitioner.
I have been a qualified counsellor for 28 years and have extensive experience of working therapeutically with adults, children and young people across a wide range of presenting issues and life experiences.
My professional background includes private practice, voluntary-sector services, educational settings and work with children and young people within local-authority services. I have worked extensively within primary and secondary education, and with children and young people who have experience of care or adoption. This has given me a particular understanding of attachment, identity, loss, trauma, safeguarding and the wider systems surrounding children and young people.
WHO I SUPERVISE
I offer supervision for qualified and trainee counsellors who value a reflective, relational and ethically grounded space. My supervision may be particularly suitable for practitioners working with adults, children and young people, trauma, attachment, safeguarding, education settings, care experience or adoption.
I welcome enquiries from qualified and trainee counsellors, including those working with adults, children and young people in private practice, schools, educational settings and other therapeutic services.
My experience includes supporting work with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, trauma, domestic abuse, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, addiction, bereavement and loss, attachment difficulties and wider emotional and psychological difficulties.
Clinical supervision is available face-to-face in Southport or online.
MY APPROACH TO SUPERVISION
My supervision practice is primarily rooted in the Seven-Eyed Model of supervision, allowing us to consider not only the presenting issue, but also the therapeutic relationship, the practitioner and the wider context surrounding the work.
I believe good supervision should be both supportive and appropriately challenging. It should give you space to step back from your client work, reflect honestly, explore areas where you may feel stuck, and consider different perspectives.
My role is not to tell you how to work, but to help you develop your own clinical thinking, confidence and professional judgement. I aim to create a relationship where you can bring difficult cases, uncertainty, and things that have not gone as planned, knowing that they can be explored safely and thoughtfully.
If you would like to explore whether we might be a good fit, you are welcome to contact me for an initial conversation about your supervision needs, current client work and preferred way of working.
If you are looking for an experienced, approachable supervisor who understands both adult and children and young people’s practice, I would be very happy to hear from you.
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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