Punam Farmah

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Red Maple Counselling Counselling for courage and change

Supervision details

I am a Person-Centred Counsellor and Counselling Supervisor who works with clients and supervisees to actualise their potential. I have experience as a counsellor in Private Practice in working with diverse range of clients who bring with them a diverse range of concerns.

I hold a Level 6 Certificate in Supervision of Therapeutic Counselling alongside a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling. 

In working with counsellors in training and qualified counsellors, I aim support you to be safe, ethical practitioners who work in the best interests of their clients. 

I utilise the person-centred approach as relational foundation to support professional development and growth. 

As a counsellor, my practice is very much Person-Centred and continues to involve to integrate other modalities to ensure a supportive, pragmatic, client-centred focus. I have experience of working with the Integrative Approach as well as teaching trainee counsellors. This equips me with a good understanding of how professional standards are important at all stages of professional and personal development.

My Supervisory way of working uses the Person-Centred approach as a foundation to combine the use of the Seven-Eyed Model, Carroll's Seven Tasks of Supervision alongside the CLEAR model. I use the person-centred approach to build a relational way of working to help you actualise your potential as a practitioner and that of your clients. My aim is to facilitate a safe, ethical space in Supervision that ensures you gain support, have the opportunity for reflection and feedback whilst developing into the best practitioner you can be.  This means ensuring that you experience supervision as a restorative, formative and normative relational process with a birds eye view over your work.

I have an interest in working with supervisees who are from the South Asian and Black Communities or work with clients these and other under-represented communities. 

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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Accredited register membership

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
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The Well Health Centre, 89 Institute Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands, B14 7EU

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Please enquire about availability as accessibility is dependent on days of practice. RMC currently uses a basement room accessible by stairs as well as a ground floor room which may suitable for wheelchair access.

Additional languages

Punjabi

Online platforms

Zoom

Type of session

In person
Online
Phone

I am a BACP-Accredited Person-Centred Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor who works with supervisees to actualise their potential.