How many clients should a counsellor see in a day? Short answer: there isn’t a one-size-fits-all number. Our ethical duty is to safeguard the quality of therapy and our fitness to practise. The BACP Ethical Framework doesn’t set a fixed limit; instead, it asks us to ensure our wellbeing is sufficient to sustain the quality of […]
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Blogging for Counsellors Why create a counselling blog? Blogging for counsellors helps give clients (and other professionals) an indication of what counselling areas you specialise in and it demonstrates what you know. Blogging helps build your writing skills. It allows time for reflection. It increases your knowledge of the counselling process, different areas of
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Putting off writing a clinical will Creating and writing a clinical will has been something I’ve always intended to write but never got round to doing it. Every week, I’m guilty of always transferring ‘writing my clinical will’ onto my weekly ‘to do’ list. However, a colleague, Roslyn Byfield, has been actively encouraging all counsellors
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Client’s Counselling Journey The majority of clients who approach me to enquire about my services have not engaged with a counsellor before. They are unsure about the counselling process and what counselling involves. I thought it would be useful to share
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Over the last few years I had noticed that counselling was changing and online counselling (e-therapy, e-counselling) was becoming more popular. I was curious of online counselling and as a private practitioner I thought it would be good to offer this service in addition to my face to face work. I carried out research and
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Ethics in counselling is paramount so if you are a counsellor that wants to use twitter for business, you will need to think about how to use twitter both ethically and professionally. Following on from my ethical guide to using social media, I have devised a twitter guide for counsellor’s to assist you tweet in
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