Joan Edwards
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Supervision details
My supervision fees are £45 per hour for individuals, and £50 per hour for organisations.
I have a Diploma in Counsellor Supervision from York St John University, and am on their list of approved Supervisors for students undertaking their placements. I am an integrative counsellor working primarily from a Person Centred basis, but incorporating other modes such as CBT, Psychodynamic, Gestalt, TA, Mindfulness, and other creative therapeutic interventions etc. as appropriate to my clients' needs. As a supervisor I am supportive, giving space to the counsellors I supervise to explore their own practice, and present their cases and issues in ways which help them to analyse and extend their own counselling skills, and enhance their own personal well-being. My aim is to help counsellors to develop and value their own unique counselling style, giving space to each individual as 'a person' as well as 'a professional'. I am adaptive to the different needs in supervision - acknowledging the different needs of individuals - depending on levels of experience and skills, levels of support/or lack of - within working environments, needs of the client base etc. The supervision needs of an experienced 'mature' therapist are very different from those of a student just setting out on their professional journey. I have been an external supervisor for Darlington Rape Crisis Centre for over 20 years, and have supported students through their first client experiences to becoming qualified. I have written assessments and reports, and provided positive feed-back to the students themselves to help them gain confidence and develop their own 'mix' and style of therapy. Working to BACP code of ethics, I help set and monitor the necessary therapeutic boundaries in order to protect both the counsellor and their clients.
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
