Rachel Matthews

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Supervisor • she/her
Dip. Therapeutic Counselling | Supervision | BACP & ACC
Kingswinford DY6 & Wombourne WV5

Supervision details

www.whatevertheweathercounselling.com

I offer warm, relational and reflective clinical supervision for counsellors and trainee counsellors, face-to-face in the West Midlands and online across the UK.

My aim is to create a supervision relationship where you can bring the whole of your work not just the cases that are going well.

There is space to explore the work you’re finding challenging, ethical dilemmas, uncertainty, boundaries, your own responses, and those times when you simply feel stuck.

I work integratively, with a Person-Centred foundation, and draw particularly on the Seven-Eyed Model to explore the different relationships and dynamics within therapeutic work.

I have experience supporting trainee counsellors on placement and bring experience from private practice, secondary schools, charities and community settings. I particularly enjoy supporting counsellors working with young people, grief and loss, anxiety, relationships and complex or emotionally demanding work.

I welcome trainees, newly qualified and experienced counsellors, and offer 1:1 supervision in person or online.

Group supervision and reflective practice for organisations can also be discussed.

My fee is £70 for 90 minutes, with a reduced rate of £50 for trainee counsellors.

I offer a free initial conversation so we can see whether we feel we would work well together.

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
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Kingswinford, West Midlands, DY6

Wombourne, Staffordshire, WV5

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Online platforms

Zoom
FaceTime
Microsoft Teams

Type of session

In person
Online
Phone

Warm, reflective supervision for counsellors and trainees. Face-to-face in the West Midlands or online across the UK.

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Rachel Matthews
Rachel Matthews