I offer one to Supervision for practitioners, both qualified and trainees, who work in therapeutically based or helping services. I am an integrative counsellor and adopt this approach within my Supervision sessions.

As a registered member of the BACP I adhere to their guidelines. The BACP define Supervision as:

“A specialised form of professional mentoring provided for practitioners responsible for undertaking challenging work with people. Supervision is provided to ensure standards, enhance quality, advance learning, stimulate creativity, and support the sustainability and resilience of the work being undertaken (BACP 2018a). It is usually a formal but collaborative process that involves regular ‘consultative support’. Two or more people form a ‘supervisory alliance’ with shared objectives about how to work together constructively to provide a safe, ethical and competent service to clients. Usually practitioners consult trained and experienced supervisors, but there are occasions when ‘peer supervision’ is undertaken; before working in this way, practitioners need to consider whether they are competent and experienced enough to have the ‘additional skills and knowledge’ Good Practice, point 62).”

“Supervision is not:

• ‘policing’ or ‘checking up’ on practitioners, although there are elements of monitoring the practitioner’s practice to ensure clients are safe and have the best possible service, particularly when in receipt of services from trainees and newly qualified practitioners

• the same as therapy. At times, it is appropriate for a supervisor to offer support to a supervisee who is experiencing a personal crisis, but that support should not become lengthy, overshadow client concerns, or lessen the process of supervision”

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