Supervision details
About me
Hi, I’m Sarah. I’m a BACP Accredited Counsellor with over 14 years of counselling experience. I have provided clinical supervision since undertaking Level 6 training in counselling supervision in 2018.
My supervision training was at Level 6 and I received a CPD Certificate of Attendance. The training covered a range of approaches to supervision, including the Seven-Eyed Model.
I provide supervision to both qualified counsellors and counselling students.
My approach to supervision
My approach is collaborative, relational and person-centred. I aim to provide a space where you can talk openly about your client work, including the things you feel confident about and the things you don’t.
I don’t believe supervision should be somewhere you feel you need to arrive with all the answers. There is room to think out loud, be uncertain, question your practice and explore your own responses to the work without feeling judged.
Alongside supporting safe and ethical practice, I see supervision as a space for curiosity, reflection and professional growth. We can explore what is happening for the client, what may be happening within the therapeutic relationship and what the work might be bringing up for you as the practitioner.
How I work
I draw on a range of supervisory approaches, including the Seven-Eyed Model. Rather than rigidly following one model, I use these frameworks to help us look at the work from different perspectives while keeping supervision responsive to you and your practice.
We might explore client work, therapeutic relationships, ethical dilemmas, boundaries, safeguarding, professional development, private practice or situations where you simply feel stuck and need somewhere to think.
I also understand that counsellors themselves are human. Sometimes our own experiences and client work overlap, and supervision can provide a safe place to notice and explore this while keeping the needs of the client in view.
Students and newly qualified counsellors
I welcome counselling students and newly qualified practitioners and understand that this stage of training and practice can bring its own uncertainties.
For students, I am happy to work alongside placement and training-provider requirements. Please check that I meet your course requirements and, where necessary, that I can be approved by your training provider before beginning supervision.
Supervision sessions
My standard supervision session is 90 minutes at £75.
Sessions are available face-to-face in Hull city centre or remotely via Zoom or telephone.
If your professional body, training provider or client hours require a different supervision arrangement, including more frequent sessions, please get in touch and we can discuss what you need.
If you’re looking for a supervisor and would like to see whether we might work well together, you’re very welcome to contact me.
Sarah
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.
