Supervision details
Hi there, my name is Bernard and I describe myself as a person-centred supervisor. I do this because I firmly belief that as a person-centred counsellor my practice as a supervisor should be founded upon the same guiding principles as my counselling.
In practice this means that our focus will be on the experience of the supervisee and on the development of their therapeutic competence through the nature of the supervision relationship. This is not the same as promoting a generic, or normative, approach to supervision. It is important therefore that the therapeutic qualities of congruence, empathy and unconditional acceptance are present in the supervision relationship. We could say then that supervision offers a model for the supervisee’s practice; not by teaching a way of working but one consistent with the practice of person-centred therapy; offering the supervisee a relational environment that can facilitate the supervisee discovering their own way of working.
It is perhaps worth stating however that this does not mean that the supervisee’s clients would be ignored in the work. I could say that in terms of what might be called the trinity of normative, formative and restorative dimensions of supervision that the normative, while not being neglected, would tend to receive less attention than the formative and restorative.
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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).
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