Supervision details
As in therapy, the quality of the supervisory relationship shapes what's possible in the work. It's the space where you can be open about what's actually happening in the room, including where you're stuck. I see supervision as somewhere to examine your clinical work in a way that supports professional and ethical integrity alongside your ongoing development, with the aim of helping you feel more confident and clear in your work with clients.
I draw on Somatic Experiencing, existential and person-centred experiential frameworks, alongside a number of integrated supervision models, and adhere to the BACP and Supervision Competence Framework. Given my own trauma and sexual health background, I'm particularly suited to supervising work in these areas, including body-based presentations that don't always fit neatly into purely cognitive or verbal models of supervision.
I'm particularly interested in how clinical work affects your own wellbeing, and how that shows up in the therapeutic relationship with parallel process, countertransference, and the ways a therapist's internal state becomes clinically relevant material rather than something to set aside. I am currently going through doctoral training and placement myself (again), so I'm also well placed to supervise trainees managing the specific pressures of that stage assessment anxiety, placement dynamics, and the gap between theory and clinical reality.
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.
