CLINICAL SUPERVISION
by Accredited Professionals
The world of counselling is becoming more and more difficult as client expectations can sometimes rise to unrealistic levels. This is where clinical supervision can be critical and where an understanding and knowledgeable clinical supervisor can assist in the process of working through such issues.
If a counsellor doesn’t return a call immediately, the client can become irate and/or impatient. Understandably so, however the counsellor cannot be in two or three places at once. They have other clients, a life and most often, a family of their own. It can sometimes be a lonely job, leaving counsellors often feeling unheard. Having robust clinical supervision with an accredited professional allows for experienced nurturing, guidance and a knowledge that support is always available is invaluable, in this ever changing world of counselling and psychotherapy.
We offer the full package of clinical supervision to both counselling individuals and peer group facilitation. We also offer ‘Supervision Support’. This is a somewhat new idea, whereby a counsellor may already have a clinical supervisor that they don’t want to change, but just need some extra support with issues that their current clinical supervisor does not have experience to support or give guidance on.
We offer telephone and video sessions and in doing so, provide the very best nurturing and supportive clinical supervision possible: Supervisees receive a unique welcome handbook and access to purchase our unique, in house, AskAClinicalSupervisor 24/7 Mobile App.
Having been through accreditation processes personally, and having worked with many supervisees over the years, we have a good understanding of what is expected and how much effort is required. The whole application can seem daunting at first; addressing your questions and issues around the process in clinical supervision can be nurturing and empowering to assist you through it.
In the counselling world, clinical supervision is about a continuous and nurturing basis of direction, guidance and education. All counsellors need to have a trusted and experienced clinical supervisor that they can go to for a myriad of professional and clinical issues, direction and general support.
Clinical Supervision
“Quality Clinical Supervision is a critical part of all talking therapies, support work and frontline connection.”
I specifically work in general with the seven eyed model of supervision:
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Supervisor focus on the client presented through the supervisee.
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Supervisor focus on intervention and treatments delivered.
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Supervisor focus on the immediate client – supervisee relationship.
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Supervisor focussing on the supervisee’s process, both presented and in the session.
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Supervisor focus on the counsellor – supervision relationship.
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Focus on my own process as a clinical supervisor.
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Supervisor focus on the wider context of what has been presented – overview and solution.
Who can I have as a supervisor?
Your supervisor should be sufficiently experienced in counselling and psychotherapy, or a closely related field, and ideally have some training and qualifications in supervision.
You should have a contract with your supervisor to cover practical arrangements such as fees and the length and frequency of sessions. The supervisor's role and responsibility should be clearly discussed and included in the contract. (BACP)
If your supervisor is also your line manager, or there is another type of dual relationship, you must be able to show that you have access to another supervisor or supervision arrangement should the need arise.
Further guidance on supervision, including dual relationships can be found in our Good Practice in Action resources and Ethical Framework.
You must be able to show a minimum of 1½ hours of supervision a month for all practice that you include, and provide details of your most recent or current arrangements (BACP) .
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All Supervisors working with SJD Clinical Supervision and Consultancy Services are Senior Accredited Members of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP), each has their own professional liability insurance and are qualified experienced and trained to provide Clinical Supervision.
Sue J. Daniels
Professional Clinical Supervisor
Due to the intensity of client caseload, increasing scam and indecent enquiries, we are unable to accept phone calls. We have now disconnected this service from SJD Supervision and Consultancy Services website. All contact can be made simply, by using the contact form. We look forward to hearing from you.
