Ros Sewell

DPsych (prof)

MSc Counselling/Psychotherapy,

Adv. Dip. Counselling

Adv. Dip. Dramatherapy

Registered MBACP (Senior Accred).

                    Tutor, Faculty of Applied Social and Organisational Sciences

E-mail: Ros.sewell@metanoia.ac.uk

Tel: 020 8579 2505

Biography

Ros originally trained and worked in theatre in education, going on to have a career as a nurse and midwife for some 20 years. She has provided counselling and psychotherapy for nearly 30 years. Her therapy experience includes work within the NHS, education, voluntary sector, drama therapy and private practice. Ros has a teaching licentiate and has provided supervision and training in counselling and psychotherapy since 2000. Ros was Competence Frameworks Manager for BACP. In this role she wrote the National Curriculum for Supervisor training and contributed to the development of Competence frameworks for a variety of different sectors.

Ros previously worked as a BACP individual and courses assessor. Ros's own doctoral research is a qualitative ethnographic study of school-based counselling and she was Joint Principal Investigator with Peter Pearce, for the Align pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of Humanistic School-Based Counselling   which developed into the Metanoia School Counselling Service. Ros continues to be joint lead for this service and provides ongoing supervision for Metanoia's school-based counselling team.

Ros was also part of the Metanoia team, led by Peter Pearce, that, along with colleagues from BACP’s research and professional standards departments, wrote the National Curriculum for Counselling for Depression (CfD) (NICE recommended, evidence based person-centred counselling for depression) available as part of the government's IAPT programme. As part of this team Ros and colleagues provided and evaluated the first round of training in CfD nationally. Ros remains a supervisor and assessor for Metanoia's CfD Practitioner training.

Institute Roles

• Research Supervisor on the Doctorate programme
• Joint Lead and Primary Supervisor on Metanoia School-Based Counselling Service (Here 4 You)

Recent Publications

• Pearce, P., Sewell, R. and Cromarty, K. 2017. School and education settings. In: Pattison, S., Robson, M. and Beynon, A. (eds.) Handbook of counselling children and young people. (Second Edition) London: BACP and Sage Publications (in press)
• Pearce, P., Sewell, R. and Proud, G. 2017. Groupwork. In: Pattison, S., Robson, M. and Beynon, A. (eds.) Handbook of counselling children and young people (Second Edition) London: BACP and Sage Publications (in press
• Beecham, J., Pearce, P., Sewell, R. And Osman, S. 2017. Cost-effectiveness of school-based humanistic
• Counselling for psychological distress in young people: pilot randomised controlled trial. Submitted for Peer Review British Journal of Counselling and Guidance
• Pearce, P., Sewell, R., Cooper, M., Osman, S., Fugard, J. B. and Pybis, J., 2016. Effectiveness of school-based humanistic counselling for psychological distress in young people.
• Psychology and Psychotherapy, Theory, Research and Practice
• Pearce, P., Sewell, R. and Cromarty, K. 2014. School and education settings. In: Pattison, S., Robson, M. and Beynon, A. (eds.) Handbook of counselling children and young people. London: BACP and Sage Publications, pp 415-426
• Pearce, P., Sewell, R. and Proud, G. 2014. Groupwork. In: Pattison, S., Robson, M. and Beynon, A. (eds.) Handbook of counselling children and young people London: BACP and Sage Publications, pp 212-228
• Pearce, P. and Sewell, R. 2014. 'Tenuous contact': New theory about adolescent process. In: Pearce, P.,
• Sommerbeck, L., Pearce, P. and Sommerbeck, L. (eds.) Person-centred practice at the difficult edge. Ross-on-Wye, England: PCCS Books.
• Pearce, P. and Sewell, R. 2014. Tenuous contact. Therapy Today, 25(6), pp 28-30
• Sewell, R. 2014 National Curriculum for Supervision Training, BACP