Supervision details
I offer Clinical Supervision to qualified and trainee counsellors and psychotherapists. My own practice is psychodynamic, although I welcome supervisees from other modalities who are interested in thinking about the relational aspects of their work.
For me, supervision is about more than discussing the client and deciding what to do next. I’m interested in what happens to you in the room: what you’re feeling, what you notice, what you may be avoiding, and whether you find yourself rescuing, reassuring, withdrawing or working harder than the client. These responses can tell us something important about the therapeutic relationship.
I particularly enjoy thinking about family dynamics, transference and countertransference, recurring patterns and the less immediately obvious aspects of the work.
My style is thoughtful, engaged and straightforward. I’ll challenge you when I think it may be useful, but I don’t see supervision as the supervisor knowing best. I want us to think together, including about uncertainty and the occasions when neither of us immediately knows what’s going on.
Most importantly, I want supervision to feel safe enough for you to say the thing you’re slightly reluctant to say. That’s often where some of the most useful thinking begins.
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.
