Supervision details
Tom Cowan (He/Him)
BA (Hons) Person-Centred Counselling, MBACP (Accred)
Trainee Clinical Supervisor
I am excited to be able to offer you up to 6 sessions of fortnightly/four weekly online supervision as part of my Diploma in Supervision training at Connexus Institute.
I see supervision as collaborative, with the aim of trying to understand what is alive within the counselling relationship and within the therapist.
This moves away from binary or polarised thinking about whether things are done rightly or wrongly and towards noticing how the counsellor is being.
Using the six conditions as an assessment tool we can explore how the therapist’s way of being contributes to the development of the therapeutic relationship.
I have lived experience of growing up gay/queer and worked with Brighton mental health charity MindOut to offer LGBTQ+ inclusive, neuro-affirming, trauma-informed counselling.
In my free time I enjoy playing around in improv classes, walking in Sussex and creating new things in surprising ways.
If you’re curious about experiencing a person-centred supervision relationship you can book a free 20 minute introductory call. Please message me.
"Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.” - Carl Rogers
Fee: £15/ 45 minute session
W: www.tomcowan.info
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).
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