Richard Safhill
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Supervision details
I am a highly experienced practitioner with a diploma in supervision, aligned with the BACP framework for supervision. Having supported a number of students through their counselling training, I help you to work through ethical dilemmas that present themselves as well as managing safeguarding and risk. Issues around training and placement provision can often present themselves and I help supervisees navigate these aspects also. My aim as a supervisor is to help you to grow in confidence as an independent practitioner and to use and recognise your unique qualities as a counsellor, firmly believing the importance of bringing ourselves and our unique experience into our work. As an experienced counsellor who integrates person-centred and existential approaches, I use the seven-eyed model as a foundation for our work together. This enables us to explore the relational dynamics of the client with themselves, others and the wider world. This includes a particular focus on the relationship between you and the client and how this acts as a microcosm for the client's wider way of relating to others. I also explore how the relationship between you and the client is then mirrored in our relationship as supervisor/supervisee. From my own practice experience, I have extensive knowledge of working with Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) as well as in private practice. I have worked with client issues including: trauma and historic abuse including childhood sexual abuse; supporting clients in or leaving domestic abuse situations; grief and end of life issues; addiction problems including alcohol, drugs and gambling. Working existentially, I help you to frame these issues from a wider frame of exploring the client's way of being in the world, informed by their upbringing and attachment patterns. From a person-centred perspective, I place our supervision relationship as central, using our relationship as a foundation to develop curiosity about the client's way of relating as well as your growing edges as a practitioner.
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.
