Next Step Psychotherapy & Wellbeing
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Supervision details
We provide clinical supervision to individual practitioners, group supervision and trainee counsellors. We also provide supervision on behalf of local organisations, as well as other professionals. Most commonly, this would be one-to-one, but we would consider facilitating small groups on request. While most of our supervisees are fellow counsellors and psychotherapists (or counselling students), we also offer supervision to people in other related professions—for example, coaches, mentors and support workers.
We do offer flexibility and creativity in the approach used, adapting it to meet the need and preference of each supervisee. Also can be tailored to some of the more creative methods we have used including sand-tray work, role play and psychodrama. Our overall aim is to provide supervisees with a safe, secure place where they can explore all aspects of their work.
While there is an essential degree of oversight to ensure safe practice, we believe that it is more effective and useful to help counsellors and psychotherapists to reflect on and learn from mistakes (and we all make them) than to take a more punitive approach. We also aim to challenge and develop supervisees, helping them gain confidence and proficiency, especially in the early years of practice.
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.
