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Gareth TaylorOnline Supervision – Does It Work as Well as Face to Face?
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...
Supervision for Trainee Counsellors – What to Expect and How to Get the Most From It
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 that goes....
Ethical Dilemmas in Counselling – How Supervision Helps You Navigate Them
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 anticipate and...
Looking After Yourself as a Therapist – Why Self-Care Isn’t Optional
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 experiences that are...
Growing as a Therapist Through Supervision
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 make you a better...
What Is Clinical Supervision in Counselling – and Why Does It Matter?
Clinical supervision in counselling is one of those things that every therapist knows they need - but not everyone has thought carefully about what it's actually for. It's a professional requirement. The BACP, the NCPS, and other professional bodies all require their...
Loss, Change and Meaning – When Life Doesn’t Go the Way You Expected
There are two kinds of life events that bring people to therapy. The loud kind: a bereavement, a separation, a redundancy, a diagnosis. Something specific has happened, and the ground has shifted in a way that's hard to absorb on your own. And the quieter kind: a slow...
Relationships and Identity
A lot of people come to therapy because of something in a relationship. A breakup. A difficult marriage. A friendship that has shifted. A family pattern they can't seem to step out of. They come thinking they want to talk about the other person, and they often do - at...