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This professional is available for new clients.
Supervision details
What Can I Offer as a Supervisor I’m Lisa, 53, based in Salford, mum to 2 grown children, counsellor and clinical supervisor. I hope this pen picture will give you a sense of who I am and how I work but please, do feel free to come and meet me too before you make a decision. Qualified to Diploma level in 2009, and with a 1st Class Honours Degree in 2022, facilitating around 1,000 therapeutic sessions each year in private practice. With a diverse range of clients from a wide variety of backgrounds and with many different presenting issues. I have a bespoke, confidential outdoor therapy room in which clients and supervisees feel welcome and safe. After qualifying in supervision, I soon began my work as a Clinical Supervisor with a large school based charitable organisation, which supports my firm belief in early intervention. I also offer supervision to private counsellors. Throughout supervision I hope to offer security and understanding - a reflective, safe space. It should be a collaborative experience, and whilst client work will always be at the forefront of our time together, I feel it is key to know you too. Not only as a counsellor, but as a person. I work in an integrative, adaptive way with the invite to work creatively using a range of interventions. I enjoy the benefits of using metaphor, analogy, visualisation and hopefully, humour. I have positive feedback that supervision sessions are supportive and thought-provoking with an appropriate balance of challenge. Ultimately, I endeavour to model honesty and authenticity. Bringing warmth and patience in the hope that clients and supervisees feel accepted and able to trust in a genuine and open relationship. Ethics in Supervision Underpinning all effective supervision should be the core conditions - unconditional positive regard, empathy and congruence. I would hope to model honesty and realness, with the intention that the supervisee would feel accepted and be able to show themselves in return. We can be ourselves. It is clear that counsellors and supervisors cannot be all things to all people but having knowledge of our own moral code and frame of reference enables us to become more accepting of ourselves and where we sit in life and why. This is key to acknowledging that there may be alternative viewpoints, which, although different than our own, are no less valid. “Our” reality does not make it “the” reality. It is vital that we are able to set our own moral compass aside and navigate a way through our supervisees experience and ultimately with them, through that of their clients.
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.