Supervision details
Hi, I'm Ceri. I'm a BACP Accredited Counsellor and qualified Clinical Supervisor offering supervision to trainee and qualified counsellors.
For me, supervision is much more than discussing client work or meeting professional requirements. It is a relationship and a space where you can reflect, develop and sometimes simply stop and think about what is happening within your work.
I want supervision to be somewhere you feel able to bring the things that are going really well alongside the sessions that have left you wondering what happened, the clients you may feel stuck with and the things you're unsure about or simply curious about.
You don't need to come to supervision with all the answers.
My approach
My approach to supervision is Humanistic Integrative and relational. I draw particularly upon the Seven-Eyed Model of Supervision, allowing us to look at your work from different perspectives rather than focusing solely on the client.
Together we may explore your client work, the therapeutic relationship, your own responses, parallel process, boundaries and ethical dilemmas, risk and safeguarding, theory and skills, difference and diversity, and your continuing development as a practitioner.
My work is also informed by an anti-oppressive approach. I believe supervision needs to provide space to explore identity, culture, difference, power, privilege and oppression, including what may be happening within the supervisory relationship itself.
I see supervision as collaborative. My role isn't to have all the answers or tell you what you "should" have done. Instead, I aim to offer support alongside gentle challenge, creating a relationship where we can be curious together while keeping safe and ethical practice at the heart of our work.
I also believe supervision needs to make room for you as a person, not only the clients you bring. Counselling can be emotionally demanding work, and the restorative side of supervision is important too.
Supporting Students
Alongside my private practice, I have experience within counselling education, tutoring and assessment. This gives me an understanding of some of the additional pressures trainees can experience while balancing academic work, skills development, placement requirements, supervision and developing their professional identity.
I aim to provide a space where it is okay not to know everything yet.
My role isn't to shape you into the kind of counsellor I am, but to support you in developing confidence in the counsellor you are becoming.
I equally welcome qualified counsellors looking for a collaborative supervisory relationship where they can continue reflecting on their practice, professional development and the more complex relational aspects of therapeutic work.
Practical information
I offer supervision face-to-face from my counselling room in the Neath Valley, South Wales, online across the UK and by telephone.
If you are a student, we can discuss the requirements of your training provider and placement to ensure the supervision arrangement is appropriate.
Finding the right supervisor is important. If you are considering working with me, you are very welcome to get in touch for an initial conversation. You can ask questions, tell me a little about what you're looking for from supervision and we can consider whether we might work well together.
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.
