Supervision details
Supervision for counsellors/psychotherapists
I provide reflective, supportive and ethically grounded supervision for professionals working within counselling, therapy and wellbeing settings. As a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, with multiple years in both Social Worker and counselling/therapy, I offer a collaborative space that supports ethical practice, self-awareness and professional development. Supervision encourages reflection, accountability, resilience and growth within safe and effective practice.
My aim is to create a safe environment where supervisees can think, talk freely and to create a ‘culture of feedback.’ (Wallace and Cooper, 2015)
This will be achieved by the supervisor and supervisee working in partnership to the ‘Normative, Formative, and Restorative’ supervision functions (Proctor 1986). The model of supervision will be the Cyclical model (Page and Wosket 1994) which offers a continuous process of reflection, learning and action. Each offers placing the clients’ welfare and any relevant systemic relationships at the heart of an honest reflective supervisory process. The duty of care is to both the supervisee and to their clients.
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.
