Supervision details
Are you seeking relational supervision that holds your client’s process alongside your own professional and personal development and well-being ?
I offer relational and collaborative supervision that seeks to create trust and a sense of safety in supporting you to explore your therapeutic work and processes. I have a warm, gentle presence with a sense of humour, and when helpful; a willingness to offer compassionate challenge.
I started my training last year at CSTD in London with Robin Shohet and Joan Wilmot, and have successfully completed the taught modules of their well-established 7 eye Model of Supervision. Their work focuses on the art of offering relational supervision that is ethical, safe, accepting, supportive and respectfully challenging. One of their more recent books – In Love With Supervision – Creating Transformative Conversations (2020) provides a useful insight in to their ethos and approach.
My pull towards becoming a Supervisor has been a slow and organic process combining personal and professional growth. I trained over 10 years ago at SPTI in Experiential Person-Centred Psychotherapy and would described my approach as relational, humanistic and embodied. Building upon my work as a ukcp qualified therapist, I have found the supervision training to be a deeply enriching, and one that has stimulated my enthusiasm and committment to offer a therapeutic supervisionary relationship to fellow therapists and peers.
Therefore, I am welcoming enquiries from trainee and qualified therapists as I work to acquire the supervisory clinical hours needed to complete my training. With this in mind, I am happy to offer a reduced rate of £30 per hour for trainee individual supervision, and £40 for qualified therapists.
I have gained extensive therapeutic experience working with young people and adults through employment at charities and organisations, such as, Nottingham Women’s Centre, Base51, Harmless CIC, Derby Relate Safe Speak and Nottingham University Counselling Service. Prior to starting psychotherapy training I worked as a photographer and was a volunteer counsellor at Childline for 4 years. I am currently working full time in private practice from my room in Beeston (NG9 2LN) and the Ropewalk Practice in Nottingham (NG1 5DT).
If you would like to arrange an initial conversation or have any queries, please feel free to email me at fiona.m.mercer@outlook.com or call, text, whatsapp on 07719 006240.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
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