by Gareth Taylor | May 19, 2026 | Blog
Online supervision is now standard practice across the UK counselling profession. That shift happened quickly – accelerated by the pandemic and made permanent by the realisation that it works. Most professional bodies accept online supervision as meeting their...
by Gareth Taylor | May 19, 2026 | Blog
Starting your placement is one of the most significant moments in your training. All the theory, all the skills practice, all the personal development work – and now you’re sitting with a real person, in a real session, carrying real responsibility for how...
by Gareth Taylor | May 19, 2026 | Blog
Every therapist encounters ethical dilemmas. Not occasionally – regularly. They come in all shapes and sizes. A client discloses something that raises a safeguarding concern but asks you not to act on it. A dual relationship develops that you didn’t...
by Gareth Taylor | May 19, 2026 | Blog
This work gets into you. That’s not a warning. It’s just true. You sit with people’s pain, week after week. You hold grief, fear, shame, rage – things that most people in ordinary life never encounter at that intensity. You stay present with...
by Gareth Taylor | May 19, 2026 | Blog
Growing as a therapist doesn’t happen automatically with experience. That’s one of the things that surprises people who are new to the profession. You might assume that the more clients you see, the more you’ll develop. That experience alone will...
