Patch's Therapy provides both one to one Supervision sessions and group supervision.

 

Supervision is an essential aspect to good quality counselling.  Patch's Therapy endeavours to create a relaxed, safe environment for counsellors to explore their work, reflecting on different perspectives and being encouraged and challenged  to be the best they can be.  

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I hope to mirror the model of Inskipp and Proctor, they explain the responsibilities of Supervisor and Supervisee in the following way:

 

1.  Supporting, enabling, ensuring.

The supervisor has the responsibility for creating a working alliance, through which the counsellor is

• Supported, as a person working with clients who may be challenging; with clients in distress in situations which may be confusing

• Enabled, as a progressively developing practitioner;

• Assured, as a professional who works intimately with clients, in private, that someone in the profession is taking seriously the task of monitoring the ethics of her practice, and will act if necessary, within contracted boundaries and sanctions, to ensure the protection of the client.

 

2. Bringing, reflecting, using.

As a counsellor in supervision, with the help of your supervisor, you should become increasingly able

• To bring your work and share it freely and accessibly

• To be clear about your needs from supervision

• To be open to feedback; and be prepared to monitor your practice in the light of it

• To use the available supervision time to the best advantage for your counselling and your clients

• To monitor your use of supervision; and to take responsibility for giving feedback to your supervisor about its usefulness for you and your clients

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In short, to engage with your supervisor with increasing integrity, courage, clear intention and openness; in order to best serve your clients.

 

Making the Most of Supervision

Francesca Inskipp and Brigid Proctor

Cascade Publications ISBN 0952275813

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What the BACP (British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy) say:

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We do not specify how many hours of supervision all members should have as different members will have different needs. You should have sufficient supervision to allow all aspects of your work to be discussed as necessary, and to enable you to develop a constructive relationship with your supervisor.

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The only exceptions are: 

• Students and members who want the hours to count towards accreditation - now or in the future - must have a minimum of 1.5 hours of supervision a month. 

• Accredited and Senior Accredited Members who are seeing clients must have a minimum of 1.5 hours of supervision a month. 

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Students on placements as part of a BACP-accredited course must have: 

• one hour of supervision for every eight hours of client work

• a minimum of 1.5 hours of supervision a month

• supervision at least every two weeks  

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Group supervision

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If you receive group supervision, the amount of time you can record for accreditation depends on the number of people contracted to the group. The rule is: 

• For groups of up to four – half the time allotted 
  (so for two hours of supervision each member can claim one hour)

• For groups of more than four – divide the amount of time by the number of people
  (so for two hours of supervision, a group of six can claim 20 minutes each) 

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Please be encouraged to check the most recent amendments to the BACP advice.

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I am still registered with the same Professional Standards Authority as the BACP but am no longer a member of the BACP, I am now registered through the ACC, see below.

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