Supervision details
I am a qualified clinical supervisor offering supervision to both trainee and qualified counsellors, face-to-face in central Chester and online.
My core orientation is person-centred and humanistic, although my clinical work also draws on relational, Gestalt, existential and trauma-informed thinking. I am comfortable supervising therapists who work differently from me and do not expect supervisees to adopt my theoretical approach.
My supervision is informed by Hawkins and Shohet's Seven-Eyed Model. I see supervision as providing space to look at the client, the therapeutic relationship, what may be happening for you as the therapist, ethical and safeguarding issues, professional development and the impact the work may be having on you.
I believe good supervision should feel supportive enough for you to talk openly about uncertainty, difficulties and mistakes, but not so comfortable that difficult questions are avoided. I will challenge where I think challenge is useful, while respecting that you remain the practitioner responsible for developing your own therapeutic identity.
I work with both qualified counsellors and trainees and particularly welcome supervisees working with trauma, complex presentations, neurodivergent clients, men's mental health, bereavement, relationship difficulties and veterans or Armed Forces clients.
Alongside private practice, I have experience teaching and training therapists on veterans, trauma and complex PTSD.
Supervision sessions are 60 minutes and are available face-to-face in Chester or online.
Qualified therapists: £50 per session.
Trainee therapists: £45 per session.
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).
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