Supervision

Regular clinical supervision is a requirement within the infrastructure of the majority of the helping professions. Professional clinical supervision helps to ensure the well-being of the clients as well as the supervisees. This aims to ensure that safe and ethical ways of practice are being adhered to; whether you work within an agency, an organisation or as an individual in private practice.

Everyone at South West Psychotherapy have completed the appropriate training to enable them to supervise counsellors, psychotherapists, and professionals working in other helping roles. we are also able to supervise students, and some of us are on approved lists of supervisors and counsellors at local higher education campuses.

Some of us have also completed a National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) Accredited Advanced Diploma in Counselling Supervision. Of all the counselling organisations in the UK at the time of writing this, ONLY NCPS accredit supervision training, and the standard is of an extremely high level.
This Masters level Diploma builds on any previous supervision training and encompasses the leading models of clinical supervision which we believe provides a deeper and richer supervisory experience.

The Supervision Practice adopted by South West Psychotherapy is an Integration of several different models; which include Hawkins & Shohet’s’ 7 eyed model, Page & Woskets’ Cyclical model, Inskipp and Proctors’ functional model as well as Carrols’ 7 generic tasks of supervision.

We work face to face, online, facilitate group supervision and offer supervision within organisations.

As Integrative therapists we are comfortable working with supervisees’ from a wide range of theoretical backgrounds and professions. We also believe in working in a collaborative way, by adopting a holistic approach to supervision where we provide the space to explore issues of self care and competency.
We look at both the physical and psychological wellbeing of our supervisees, and explore together any possible areas for development or reflection. we also take the time to fully acknowledge and appreciate the successes.