Coping with Cancer offers a confidential clinical counselling and psychotherapy supervision service for qualified and trainee counsellors and psychotherapists, as well as others working in a caring profession.
- Competitive rates, with further discounts for trainee counsellors or psychotherapists
- Group supervision also available
- Experienced, qualified supervisors who work within the BACP's Ethical Framework
- Purpose built therapy rooms
- Central location just outside Leicester city centre. Free parking
- Some evening sessions available
- Benefits the local community - income made from our supervision service helps fund our free counselling service for local people affected by cancer.
For further information, please contact Angela on 0116 223 0055 or email angela.varnham@c-w-c.org.uk
Clinical supervision for those working in a caring profession (non counsellors or psychotherapists)
Workers who are involved in a caring profession, if they are working empathically with a client's distress, often experience parallel distress and emotional disturbance within themselves. The emotional overload that may ensue is dependent on many factors: the type of personality of the worker, experience, emotional maturity, caseload ,the amount of pressure and stress they are under at work and home. This is why good quality and regular supervision with a trained clinical supervisor is so important.
Supervision helps to contain, evaluate and work through the emotional needs of the worker. If this is overlooked this will lead to decreased functioning in the worker and could lead to a fragmentation in the team or to inappropriate interactions between the worker and their client.
What is Supervision?
Supervision is offered in a non-judgemental and accepting environment where reflection on practice is encouraged through exploration and evaluation of the workers relationship with the client and lays the foundations for the worker to begin to develop and learn confident ways of relating to their client. This allows, through a parallel process a deeper, more meaningful connection with their client. In a supervisory relationship there needs to be a monitoring of ethical practice. This can only be achieved if the worker knows there is a safe place to explore their worries and dilemmas.
To ensure that supervision is a transformational process it needs to have a contractual structure which encompasses the needs of the three people within that alliance. Supervision is confidential but the supervisor and the worker need to be aware that they comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 and, where the law states, when confidentiality may to be breeched.
Supervision should encompass the different learning styles of the worker, which will lead to a deeper interaction and understanding of their work and how they relate to different people. As a worker builds up trust with the supervisor the needs of the worker should be better understood and so enable the distress and stresses to be contained and worked through appropriately.
We offer both group and individual supervision. For more information, please get in touch.