Do School Counsellors need a Union?
26th February | Catherine Manners & Richard Bagnall-Oakeley | Online Seminar
School Counsellor Network
The Iron Mill College School Counsellor Network presents Do School Counsellors need a Union? This is an online seminar.
School counselling is the most prevalent source of mental health support for young people in the UK. Its history spans over 60 years and access to school counselling is a statutory requirement in three of the four nations.In spite of this, school counsellors have no professional recognition, guaranteed rates of pay or security of tenure.This seminar will consider the views and experiences of members of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union, the only union for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK.
Considering the history of school counselling, recent developments in the field and the very real problems and challenges that school counsellors face, we will explore the question, Do School Counsellors Need a Union?
Come along and listen to the speakers and share your own views and opinions.
Free to attend, register here
Dr Marilyn McGowan
Dr Marilyn McGowan is the co-ordinator of the School Counselling Network run by the Iron Mill College where she also tutors and works as Development Manager. She is school counselling lead for the PCU and a member of their executive committee. A school counsellor for over thirty years, her doctorate focussed on the contribution school counselling can make to education.
Richard Bagnall-Oakeley
Richard is an integrative psychotherapist working with children, young people and adults for over 20 years. He has worked for many years in primary schools in Tottenham for the Hope In Haringey schools counselling service. He also supervises school counsellors in several settings, including on the child psychotherapy training at Terapia.
He is a founder member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union, and have served on the PCU Executive Committee since 2016; He was Chair and then General Secretary from 2017-2020. Before Richard became a psychotherapist he worked on adventure playgrounds, and was involved in various grassroots political campaigns – the central importance of play, and the significance of social and political issues, continue to inform his work as a therapist.
Catherine Manners
Catherine Manners is a psychotherapist and PCU member, who specialises in working with young people from an IFS and humanistic lens. She runs a school counselling service in an independent school and is also in private practice. She is also a supervisor to trainee and qualified counsellors.
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