Shauna Hope
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Supervision details
Supervision helps us reflect on our work and fine tune how available and effective our counselling relationships are. I view supervision as offering support and challenge. I offer an open, caring and congruent relationship so that we can work together to offer the most effective counselling or helping relationship to our clients.
I first started offering supervision to helpline workers for a mental health charity in Bristol in 2003 and completed my Counselling Supervision qualification in 2007. I work with experienced counsellors and practitioners who work in a helping profession and need time, outside of their organisation, to reflect on their work.
I also offer supervision in private woodland and on Zoom to counsellors who work in the UK offering Walk and Talk therapy or Counselling Outdoors. The woods offer a creative space to draw on our sense of nature connection to further explore our work.
I have always found the Hawkins and Shohet's model of supervision fun, helpful and creative. I'm also fascinated by how organisational dynamics can impact on our work so I find Michael Carroll's work useful. I find Judy Ryde's writing on working with difference (including power) in supervision, continually thought provoking.
I have had a Buddhist meditation practice since 2007 (indoors and in nature) and often find this offers a useful reflection on self-care and generally dealing with the messy business of being human. I
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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.
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Accredited register membership
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