Certificate in Clinical Supervision Including
Online and Telephone Working
Enrolment is now open
- Details and joining links below
- Please ensure you meet the enrolment criteria before joining (details below under ELIGIBILITY)
- You can enrol on this training using the checkout link on this page (details below under PRICING)
TRAINING COURSE DETAILS
The Counselling Tutor Certificate in Clinical Supervision including Online and Telephone Working leads to a professional qualification in clinical counselling supervision.
This training gives you the tools, and knowledge, to be able to work professionally and safely with supervisees, in both a face-to-face setting and online using digital technology and telephone.
Upon graduation, you can submit your qualification to your professional body and offer supervision in a face-to-face setting as well as online.
The training aims
- Gain a professional qualification that you can use in service of others
- Enhance your knowledge and understanding of supervision
- Become skilled in the technology, practice, and ethics of online supervision delivery
- Progress your career and professional standing
- An ideal route for those therapists who choose to apply for an accredited supervision status
This training follows the guidance set out in the BACP Counselling Supervision Training Curriculum published by BACP Professional Standards.
SUITABILITY
Have you considered training as a clinical counselling supervisor?
Or, perhaps you are already a supervisor but wish to update and expand your knowledge to cover supervising online?
Perhaps "now" feels like the right time to take that next step in your professional journey and make an investment in yourself and your practice.
If you are a qualified therapist, or supervisor, with over 2 years of practice experience, and you feel ready to stretch yourself and be inspired, then this training may be a perfect fit for you.
(please see eligibility criteria below)
WHY UPSKILL NOW?
There has been a massive explosion in the numbers of counsellors who have upskilled to work online due to social distancing.
Online work has become quite predominant, with thousands of therapists and agencies offering blended delivery including working remotely and by telephone.
Ethical good practice suggests - online practitioners should get supervision from a supervisor who is trained in the medium of working.
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) states in its Online and Phone Therapy (OPT) Framework (2021, p. 13) that its members must have:
7 Ability to source and make use of appropriate supervision for OPT
i. An understanding of how to source a supervisor with knowledge and experience of OPT
ii. An ability to make use of online/phone supervision, e.g. by:Engaging with supervision that parallels the type of therapy offered e.g. phone, online platform, email
Acknowledging in supervision the particular phenomena raised in blended therapy e.g. phone and in the room, online and in the room, phone and online.
Using supervision to reflect on and discuss the impact OPT may be having on the client and/or practitioner using supervision to support and develop own OPT practice.
PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY
Becoming skilled in this important area of clinical supervision may therefore represent an opportunity to develop your practice.
Gaining the competence to supervise both face-to-face and online opens new professional and personal development opportunities.
Blended service delivery (face-to-face and online) has now been widely adopted as the delivery method going forward as it offers clients choice and convenience.
This training course covers both traditional face-to-face supervision, as well as up-to-date online and telephone working, with supervisees who offer online or telephone services.
This training will support you in expanding your ability as you broaden your skillset and gain confidence, and real-world experience, within a safe learning environment.
ELIGIBILITY AND ENROLMENT CRITERIA
This training is suitable for practitioners who…
- Hold a formal, recognised qualification in counselling or psychotherapy at diploma level or above
- Have been in practice for a minimum of 2 years post-graduation (or have over 400 hours of practice experience)
- Are a member of a professional body and work within an ethical framework
- Attend regular supervision according to the requirements of their professional body
- Undertake regular Continuing Professional Development in line with their professional body requirements.
Further requirements
COURSE DELIVERY
This flexibility means the training can fit around a busy work, home, life balance.
BLENDED LEARNING
- Video lectures presented by Rory Lees-Oakes
- Downloadable slide packs, transcripts, and sound files
- Practical case discussion applying the material to practice, and looking at real-world applications
- Resources and downloads
- Tasks to reflect on
- Additional learning and access to related specialist lectures
- Suggested reading and viewing
- Live teaching, including tutors demonstrating supervision practice
No matter what your base modality, the Counselling Tutor online supervisor training will give you the structure, skills and competencies to clinically supervise counsellors safely and ethically.
8 modules and 40 lessons guide you through everything from setting your supervisory mindset, creating your contracts and practice paperwork, and delivering clinically sound supervision.
The course is underpinned by the Shohet and Hawkins Seven-Eyed Model of supervision developed by Peter Hawkins and Robin Shohet.
INTAKE DATES FOR September 2022
We will have 3 separate cohorts, or intakes, starting in September 2022.
You choose the one that suits you best
- Cohort A (Saturdays) Starts Saturday 17th September - (Limited spaces available)
- Cohort B (Tuesdays) Starts Tuesday 20th September (Limited spaces available)
- Cohort C (Saturdays) Starts Saturday 24th September (Limited spaces available)
Live tutor-led training takes place online via Zoom.
Refer to the handbook to see what is covered at the live tutor-led events.
To download a handbook please CLICK HERE
Look at the table below in the pricing section to see what dates best fit you.
PRICING AND ENROLMENT OPTIONS
The following payment plan is offered.
Initial deposit £200 followed by 5 monthly payments of £200
How to Enrol
To enroll in this training, first, ensure you meet the eligibility criteria, then select the cohort, or intake, from the options below.
NOTE: Places on each training cohort are limited.
Places are given on a first-come-first-served basis. If a cohort is sold out, you will be notified during checkout and offered alternate options.
Select the cohort that suits you
Cohort A - (Limited spaces available)
Training for Cohort A is a mix of self-directed learning and live tutor-led events.
Self-directed learning takes place at a time that suits you, in-between the live events, and you will access the learning inside the Counselling Tutor learning platform.
Tutor-led events will take place every 2nd Saturday starting on the 17th September 2022 and finishing on 17th November 2022.
The live events run from 10 am to 4 pm
You will see supervision demonstrated by the tutors and you will then practice with a peer.
A payment plan is offered for this cohort
Click here to enroll for Cohort A
SEPTEMBER COHORT A
Starts 17th Sept 22
- Live Events Dates 17 September
1st October
15th October
29th October
12th November
26th November Convenient & flexible payment option available during checkout
SEPTEMBER COHORT B
Starts 20th Sept 22
- Live Events Dates 20th September
4th October
18th October
1st November
15th November
29th November Convenient & flexible payment option available during checkout
Cohort B - Weekday flexibility (Limited spaces available)
Training for Cohort B is a mix of self-directed learning and live tutor-led events.
Self-directed learning takes place at a time that suits you, in-between the live events, and you will access the learning inside the Counselling Tutor learning platform.
Tutor-led events will take place every 2nd Tuesday starting on the 20th September 2022 and finishing on 29th November 2022.
The live events run from 10 am to 4 pm
You will see supervision demonstrated by the tutors and you will then practice with a peer.
A payment plan is offered for this cohort
Click here to enroll for Cohort B
Cohort C (Limited spaces available)
Training for Cohort c is a mix of self-directed learning and live tutor-led events.
Self-directed learning takes place at a time that suits you, in-between the live events, and you will access the learning inside the Counselling Tutor learning platform.
Tutor-led events will take place every 2nd Saturday starting on the 24th September 2022 and finishing on 3rd December 2022.
The live events run from 10 am to 4 pm
You will see supervision demonstrated by the tutors and you will then practice with a peer.
A payment plan is offered for this cohort
SEPTEMBER COHORT C
Starts 24th Sept 22
- Live Events Dates 24 September
8th October
22nd October
5th November
19th November
3rd December Convenient & flexible payment option available during checkout
Assessment and Placement
After live session 6 of the training, you will have 90 days to complete parts 1 and 2 of the assignments.
- Assignment 1 is a 2000-word essay.
- Assignment 2 is a transcription of a recorded session.
You will be supported through the assignments by the tutor team so you don't have to do this alone.
Our team is neurodiverse-friendly. If you have any challenges such as dyslexia, ADD and ADHD, then please do let a tutor know and you will be supported.
An in-depth assignment briefing in week 6 will cover all aspects of both assignments including word counts for each section, how to record and transcribe using free tools, and how to reference.
You will have the opportunity to ask questions and get additional support where you need it.
Tutor observations also form part of the formative assessment of the course.
Peer practice sessions observed by tutors are for developmental purposes and working towards fitness to practise.
Supervision Placement
The final part of the assignment – 20 hours of placement supervision – needs to be submitted within 12 months after the final live session.
You will need to find placement supervisees to work with to gain your placement hours. Counselling Tutor does not supply supervisees; however, we will give guidance on where to find supervisees.
Our team will help as much as we can using our resources.
COURSE PRESENTERS
To become a great supervisor requires a robust understanding of the theoretical principles, underpinned with support and confidence building through real-world experiential practice. You will undertake this journey under the expert guidance of our kind and patient tutor team who serve with a passion to make a difference in the world.
Our tutors are counsellors, as well as highly experienced supervisors, and each holds a formal teaching qualification as well as a certificate in online and telephone working.
This means you get expert guidance, feedback, and support as you build your competencies, theoretical knowledge, and practical experience.
Our team is neurodiverse-friendly. If you have any challenges such as dyslexia, ADD and ADHD, then please do let a tutor know and you will be supported.
The balance of self-directed learning, tutor-led session, and experiential training with your course peers gives a rich and varied learning journey that is supportive, engaging, and enjoyable.
You will be joining a counselling family of like-minded peers where you can both give and receive support.
Kenneth Kelly
Kenneth – or Ken – Kelly is a practising counsellor and a clinical supervisor.
Ken completed a post-graduation certificate in online and telephone counselling in 2012.
He also holds a teaching qualification and authored the textbook Basic Counselling Skills: A Student Guide.
In his position as Co-Director at Counselling Tutor, Ken focuses on online training provision and specialises in outcome-based online learning.
Rory Lees-Oakes
Rory Lees-Oakes is Co-Director at Counselling Tutor and author of Counselling Theory in Practice: A Student Guide.
He spent over a decade lecturing in counselling. Rory is a qualified counsellor, clinical supervisor and lecturer.
In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious Silver Plato award for outstanding use of technology in education. He is also a Fellow of the Pearson Teaching Awards.
An avid drinker of tea, he’s more likely to be found in a tea room than a bar.
Christine Shore
Christine is a qualified counsellor, teacher, lecturer and clinical supervisor. She completed a post-graduation certificate in online and telephone counselling in 2020. Christine has extensive practice experience in several settings, including working with EAPs, care homes, in the workplace and with the constabulary. She has a busy private practice.
Christine is a qualified reiki practitioner and also has a history of experience in one to one work with individuals of all ages in learning support, advice, guidance, education and management. She has carried out phenomenological research into humour in counselling.
Sally-Anne Armitage
Sally-Anne is a BACP accredited counsellor, qualified lecturer and supervisor.
She currently works with police and private clients.
Sally is a passionate therapist, spending much of her free time immersed in rich counselling discussion and research.
Sally has completed a Master’s Degree, which cemented her specialism in trauma and PTSD. She has past experience working for EAPs, in colleges and with offenders.
Sally thrives on interaction, including working remotely in her practice, achieving a certificate in online working.
Nora Allali-Carling
Nora is an experienced Counsellor, teacher, trainer and clinical supervisor.
Nora has spent more than twenty years teaching and training in Education and currently teaches in Further Education in London.
Nora has a private practice in Surrey where she offers faith-based and culturally sensitive counselling.
In addition to her private practice, Nora has worked for an NHS GP practice, St Christopher’s Hospice and family counselling services.
Nora has published articles on grief, loss and bereavement and is currently completing her MSc in Neuroscience of Mental Health.
COURSE MODULES & TOPICS
INTAKE DATES FOR SEPTEMBER 2022
We will have 3 separate cohorts, or intakes, starting in September 2022.
You choose the one that suits you best
- Cohort A (Saturdays) Starts Saturday 17th September
- Cohort B (Tuesdays) Starts Tuesday 20th September
- Cohort C (Saturdays) Starts Saturday 24th September
Live tutor-led training takes place online via Zoom.
Refer to the handbook to see what is covered at the live tutor-led events.
To download a handbook please CLICK HERE
Look at the table below in the pricing section to see what dates best fit you.
PRICING AND ENROLMENT OPTIONS
The following payment plan is offered.
Initial deposit £200 followed by 5 monthly payments of £200
How to Enrol
To enroll in this training, first, ensure you meet the eligibility criteria, then select the cohort, or intake, from the options below.
NOTE: Places on each training cohort are limited.
Places are given on a first-come-first-served basis. If a cohort is sold out, you will be notified during checkout and offered alternate options.
Select the cohort that suits you
Cohort A - (Limited spaces available)
Training for Cohort A is a mix of self-directed learning and live tutor-led events.
Self-directed learning takes place at a time that suits you, in-between the live events, and you will access the learning inside the Counselling Tutor learning platform.
Tutor-led events will take place every 2nd Saturday starting on the 17th September 2022 and finishing on 17th November 2022.
The live events run from 10 am to 4 pm
You will see supervision demonstrated by the tutors and you will then practice with a peer.
A payment plan is offered for this cohort
Click here to enroll for Cohort A
SEPTEMBER COHORT A
Starts 17th Sept 22
- Live Events Dates 17 September
1st October
15th October
29th October
12th November
26th November Convenient & flexible payment option available during checkout
SEPTEMBER COHORT B
Starts 20th Sept 22
- Live Events Dates 20th September
4th October
18th October
1st November
15th November
29th November Convenient & flexible payment option available during checkout
Cohort B - Weekday flexibility (Limited spaces available)
Training for Cohort B is a mix of self-directed learning and live tutor-led events.
Self-directed learning takes place at a time that suits you, in-between the live events, and you will access the learning inside the Counselling Tutor learning platform.
Tutor-led events will take place every 2nd Tuesday starting on the 20th September 2022 and finishing on 29th November 2022.
The live events run from 10 am to 4 pm
You will see supervision demonstrated by the tutors and you will then practice with a peer.
A payment plan is offered for this cohort
Click here to enroll for Cohort B
Cohort C (Limited spaces available)
Training for Cohort c is a mix of self-directed learning and live tutor-led events.
Self-directed learning takes place at a time that suits you, in-between the live events, and you will access the learning inside the Counselling Tutor learning platform.
Tutor-led events will take place every 2nd Saturday starting on the 24th September 2022 and finishing on 3rd December 2022.
The live events run from 10 am to 4 pm
You will see supervision demonstrated by the tutors and you will then practice with a peer.
A payment plan is offered for this cohort
SEPTEMBER COHORT C
Starts 24th Sept 22
- Live Events Dates 24 September
8th October
22nd October
5th November
19th November
3rd December Convenient & flexible payment option available during checkout