Certificate in Clinical Supervision

Philosophy of the Course

The Certificate in Clinical Supervision is rooted in a relational approach to supervision, exploring the diverse landscape that supervision now engages with. It offers participants the opportunity to develop their own unique style as supervisors while considering the many challenges that arise in contemporary supervision practice.

Designed for qualified professionals, this course is suitable for counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, consultants, social workers, probation officers, mental health workers, and others in the helping professions. It is aimed at practitioners who have been post-qualified for at least three years, regardless of their field of work or theoretical orientation. By bringing together professionals from different backgrounds, the course fosters dialogue on both shared principles and distinctive perspectives in the theory and practice of supervision.

Aims of the Training Programme

• To provide participants with the theoretical basis and practical skills in supervision so that they can practice independently or in professional associations as supervisors for a range of practitioners within the helping professions. This standard is equivalent to that required by other professional associations for the accreditation of supervisors.
• To create a semi-structured learning experience that provides models or frameworks of working knowledge and skills and reflective/reflexive practice, which can support a collaborative, coherent and cohesive approach to your best supervision practice.
• To provide an open, creative, relational approach which supports the participants of the course to particularly to develop a stance of sharing and exchanging many areas of knowledge and expertise. This also includes the diversity of professional backgrounds, contexts and theoretical orientations providing a richness of experience, critical challenge and throughout the training.

• Accreditation:

  The course meets both UKCP requirements for supervision training and the BACP Counselling Supervision Training Curriculum. On successful completion of the Certificate in Clinical Supervision, you can be nominated to the UKCP Directory of Supervisors through your membership organisation. NB. In order to be placed upon the UKCP Directory of Supervisors on completion, you need to be a UKCP registrant.

  If you are a BACP-accredited therapist, this programme can be used to support your application directly with BACP to become a BACP-accredited supervisor.