Full Circle Counselling Supervisory Service

What is Clinical Supervision:

Clinical supervision is a formal process of professional support and learning that enables staff who work with vulnerable people to reflect on their work, develop their skills, and maintain safe, effective, and ethical practice.

It provides a structured space where the supervisee meets with a more experienced colleague (the supervisor) to:

• Reflect on practice: discussing cases, decisions, and emotional responses.
• Ensure quality and safety: monitoring adherence to professional and ethical standards.
• Develop professionally: gaining feedback, new perspectives, and guidance for career growth.
• Support well-being: reducing stress, preventing burnout, and maintaining resilience.

Functions of Clinical Supervision:

It is often described as having three overlapping functions:

1. Formative (educational): developing skills, knowledge, and professional competence.
2. Normative (managerial): ensuring accountability, quality of care, and adherence to policies.
3. Restorative (supportive): providing emotional support and safeguarding practitioner well-being.

In short: with supervision, businesses gain quality, safety, and stability; without it, they face risk, cost, and reputational harm.

Who are we:

We are a small team of qualified supervisory counsellors who have lots of experience working face to face with vulnerable clients.

Who is it for:

We offer clinical supervision to any business or charity that works with vulnerable clients and to qualified and training counsellors and psychotherapists.

About our Clinical supervisors:

All counsellors are qualified, DBS checked, ICO registered and are a member of a counselling body such as the B.A.C.P. or N.C.P.S

All our Clinical supervisors hold a level 6 supervision qualification.

When and where:

Supervision is best placed conducted monthly or twice monthly if a trainee counsellor.

We can offer supervision either face to face or remotely via Microsoft Teams or Zoom.

Face to face sessions are offered in our Winton office or we can come to you.

(* there may be a travel charge applied.)

Costs:

£65.00 per session (60 minutes in duration) or £90.00 (90 minutes in duration) for clinical supervision

Trainee counsellors are charged £37.50 for 45 minutes twice a month.

Groups of three £65.00 (60 minutes in duration or £90.00 (90 minutes in duration.

How to contact us:

Online contact form, email: fullcirclecounselling@ymcabournemouth.org.uk or telephone us on 01202 830102 (please leave a message and we will get back to you).