Counselling supervision is essential to protect the client, and to improve your skill set and ability to assist your clients. Counselling supervisors serve as mentors and provide guidance, information and emotional support.
Counselling supervision is used to, among others:
- Review counsellors’ professional practice
- Manage counsellors’ caseloads effectively
- Develop counsellors’ therapy and professional skills
- Create awareness of counsellors’ own responses to their counselling work
- Promote counsellors’ self-care and resilience
- To deepen counsellors’ skillset and knowledge, so they can become better practitioners
It is widely acknowledged that counsellors benefit from having regular professional supervision sessions. This is true for both beginning and more experienced counsellors. The Australian Counselling Association (ACA) recommends one hour of supervision for every 10 hours of client contact. A minimum of 10 hours supervision is required to maintain ACA membership.
If you want to ensure that you establish and run an effective and successful counselling practice, maintain good work-life balance and prevent burn-out, supervision is key.
Finding a good counselling supervisor can be hard. A great many supervisors are available.
Marc de Bruin has been working as a mental health professional since 2005. Previously, he built a career as barrister and solicitor in his former home country, the Netherlands. Marc holds a Master of Counselling from the University of the Sunshine Coast, is a level 3 Registered Counsellor with the ACA and ARCAP and is also registered with the ACA College of Supervisors. Marc’s legal and business background, combined with many years of counselling practice with thousands of clients and a transpersonal (even spiritual) worldview, make him a valuable partner in supervision conversations. Marc has been trained in, and utilises the “Rise Up” model of Supervision, developed by ACA’s CEO Dr. Philip Armstrong.
If you are looking for authentic, honest, straightforward, to-the-point and strengths-based counselling supervision “with a twist” to greatly improve your counselling business practice and counselling skills, contact Marc through the content form below, via phone or via the social media links provided.