Claire Abernethy
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Supervision details
For me, the foundation of supervision is an honest and collaborative relationship. Within this secure relationship you are invited to bring all aspects of your practice, and anything else that you feel is affecting your practice. For example, client issues, ethical concerns, are welcome, just as personal issues that impact your way of being as a practitioner are welcome too.
Supervision is a safe and empowering space and within it we can explore all topics with an expansive curiosity, offering clarity, insight, and where appropriate, challenge. It is an opportunity to deepen understanding of ourselves and our practice. It is a chance to self-reflect and grow.
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.
