Supervision details
About Supervision
Good supervision should be a place where you can think honestly about your work and feel supported in doing it. I offer a reflective, collaborative space for both individual and group work with counsellors and trainees at every stage, from placement students to experienced practitioners.
I have over 10 years of experience working with young adults at a local college, if you should wish the work to focus in this area.
I draw on three complementary frameworks. Together they keep supervision balanced between developing your practice, safeguarding your clients and looking after you
Proctor's three functions:
Formative: developing your skills, self-awareness and theoretical understanding.
Normative: attending to ethics, professional standards, contracting and client safety.
Restorative: supporting you with the emotional weight of the work, so you can sustain it well.
The seven-eyed model (Hawkins and Shohet). Beyond the case itself, we can look at the client, your interventions, the relationship between you and your client, your own process, the supervisory relationship, and the wider context in which you work. This is especially useful for noticing parallel process, the way dynamics from the therapy room can show up in supervision.
The seven tasks of supervision (Carroll). Supervision is more than case discussion. I work with you across the whole range of supervisory tasks:
Building the supervisory relationship, teaching ,counselling, monitoring professional and ethical issues, evaluating, consulting, attending to administration
I will provide a space to bring difficult cases, ethical dilemmas, uncertainty and guidance in the moments where you feel stuck
face to face / online / telephone
Session length and frequency: We can discuss
Fees: £50 / hour whilst in training (completion of this will be November)
Availability: Please contact me
Professional body and ethical framework: BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions
Please get in touch for an initial conversation, to see whether we would be a good fit.
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.
