Alison Sutcliffe

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Counsellor & Psychotherapist & EMDR MSc (MBACP Accred)
Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 9QA

Supervision details

Counselling and pyschotherapy can be a rewarding and fulfilling career.  This profession can also be demanding, isolating and feature dilemmas. 

My aim is to create an environment where you feel respected, supported, and encouraged to explore your practice with openness and curiosity.

Together, we will reflect on your clinical work, celebrate your strengths, and navigate challenges in a way that builds confidence and deepens trust in yourself as a practitioner.

My base training is as a Person-Centred Counsellor and Psychotherapist. I trained at the Metanoia Institute which is respected for its high quality training. I have been practicing as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist since 2009.

In addition to this I am also an EMDR Therapist and I have been offering this to my clients since 2024.

My supervision training began in October 2025 at the Gestalt Centre which is seen as a centre of excellence in the provision of training therapists to become both individual and group supervisors.

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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30 Grand Parade, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 9QA

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Zoom

Type of session

In person
Online

Supervision = a haven for the counsellor: a place to pause from the intensity of the work & reflect with honesty & compassion on your practice.

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