Victoria Cowgill
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Supervision details
As a Counselling Supervisor, my focus is on building a therapeutic relationship to develop trust and understanding and to support the supervisee. I offer Supervision to both trainee Counsellors completing their 100 hrs and to qualified Counsellors to support professional requirements and to review the way they work with their clients. This focus ensures supervisees work in a safe and ethical way while accessing regular opportunities to reflect on all aspects of their practice.
It is common for trainee and newly qualified therapists to want to get to the point where they’ve ‘learnt everything’ they need to know as a therapist. The truth is in Counselling it’s common to feel uncertain. Experienced therapists will also, sometimes feel uncertain and we all need support and guidance. This is the Joy of Supervision, having a safe space to discuss both our successes and concerns.
As a Supervisor, I ensure supervisees reflect on all aspects of their clinical work, review personal practice, discuss cases in depth, and identify any training and development needs. All support quality improvement and ensure increased levels of accountability.
Regular supervision helps protect the supervisees’ clients, whilst allowing the supervisee a safe space to contemplate the confidential work they do and enhance client treatment outcomes.
As a Supervisor, I also support the supervise, by encouraging both professional development and growth. The safe space encourages self-reflection on our emotional and personal reactions to our work. We are only human and the Supervision space allows us to reflect on, and challenge our own practice as a therapist, through receiving non-judgmental professional feedback.
Having trained in Person Centred, Behavioural and Psychodynamic modalities, I have also taught Counselling since 2017. I have ongoing experience, teaching both Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and Foundation Degrees, supporting trainee Counsellors on both ‘Fitness to Practice’ and ‘Work Placement and working with Qualified Counsellors too.
I completed my Post Graduate Certificate in Supervision at the Manchester Institute for Phytotherapy and completed a further Post Graduate Certificate in Dynamic Interpersonal Psychotherapy. Studying a deeper understanding of transference and countertransference while exploring object relations, attachment styles, relationships, defence mechanisms and the role of the unconscious in the room has enhanced both my Counselling and Supervision experience.
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.
