Supervision details
I do not see my task as telling you how you should practice. Apart from matters of safeguarding wherein more specific direction and advice may be required, I feel that our dialogical task is to assist you to articulate and analyse your practice experiences with the aim of furnishing helpful reflections and insights that enable you to become a more competent and confident therapist.
This approach to supervision stems from my belief that therapists need to find a way to work - which is likely to draw upon a variety of sources - that fits with their character and personal outlook. Indeed, this topic formed a central plank of my doctoral thesis dissertation (which, for interested persons, can be easily accessed via a google search).
Like in my personal practice, my approach to supervision is informed by a way of working that prioritises relationships (between the therapist and client, between supervisor and supervisee), is characterised by a creative drawing upon of multiple theories, is informed by research, and that offers a balanced prioritisation of the persons of both the supervisee and their client. Although I have a broad and multifaceted training, the models that fit best with me, and thus are most readily accessible in my thinking, are of a humanistic, existential, and psychodynamic nature. That is, relational models.
British Psychological Society
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
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.
