Michelle Rutherford
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Supervision details
Looking for a new supervisor can sometimes feel like a daunting task especially when there are so many different modalities and individual strengths available within the supervisor register to choose from.
My counselling work includes running my own neurodiverse-affirmative private practice as well as experience in working within counselling services in schools, EAP and adult counselling services both generic and specialist.
I have a particular interest in working with clients with Neurodiversity, low self-esteem and self-worth, anxiety and shyness as well as sufferers of family and childhood trauma past and present. I’m also a holistic, complementary therapist with the Federation of Holistic Therapists and so I use a lot of image work, breath, visual aids and somatic body work responses alongside my therapeutic counselling work.
I currently work with children and young people, individuals and couples and from that diverse client base perspective, I aim to support your work with your own diverse client group.
I enjoy the supervision relationship between qualified/in-training counsellors' because it's a dynamic yet also reflective space to work together to bring about the best outcomes for you as the counsellor and ultimately for your clients.
Counselling can be so rewarding but at times can also be very activating and even stressful as some therapists are by their very nature prone to self-sacrifice and have unrelenting standards that they hold themselves to. So, it’s important to have a supervisor that can keep a supportive and aware birds eye view of counselling work problems occurring such as; over-working, over-involvement, burnout and lack of self-care.
I'm particularly interested in working with newly qualified/return to counselling therapists as feeling empowered and supported at this time can be especially helpful to allow self-confidence and unique skills to emerge. The counselling landscape has changed dramatically post pandemic and having a space to explore this safely can be empowering. When you feel empowered and supported, you're more inclined to say no to low value placements, working for free, as well as bad working practices. Counselling is a profession that needs more empowered therapists as it's not a job everyone can do and collectively, we need to have that recognised within the working world.
Please feel free to contact me for an initial chat if something I’ve said has resonated with you or piqued your curiousity and we can take it from there.
My tiered fees for supervision are:
- £50 for 60 mins for qualified counsellors.
- £60 for 90 Mins for qualified counsellors.
- £45 for 90 mins session for in-training/student/newly qualified counsellors (within a year period) - working.
- £40 for 60 mins for in-training/student/newly qualified counsellors (within a year period) - not working.
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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