Supervision details
I base my supervision practice on the Person-Centred Approach, which emphasises the three core conditions of empathy, congruence, and acceptance. In addition, I draw on a range of therapeutic techniques from my counselling work, along with my training and extensive experience, when supporting supervisees.
My aim in supervision is to focus on four key areas, maintaining a balance between them as appropriate during sessions. I am committed to providing a safe and supportive environment, and it is important that supervisees understand the agreements we make and what to expect from our work together.
The four main areas are:
Educative – Supporting ongoing learning and professional development, including guidance on CPD opportunities.
Responsibility – Monitoring ethical and practical issues to ensure safe and effective practice.
Supportive – Offering care and encouragement while providing constructive challenge and insight.
Therapeutic – Encouraging awareness of the supervisee’s own issues and their potential impact on practice, while maintaining my own self-awareness as a supervisor.
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.
