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MyiraKhanCounselling
@Myira_Khan
MBACP Accredited #Counsellor #Supervisor | Coined #WorkingWithinDiversity | TedX: https://t.co/3Vu11bBbLh | Founder @growtoglow_flow | Founder @MCAPN_CO_UK
Sep 8, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
For all 'BAME' organisations, organisations who state they work with 'BAME' communities and/or organisations/networks for 'BAME' people, one of the most powerful ways to acknowledge the lived experiences of oppression & dynamic of being 'othered' is to stop using the term 'BAME'. The term 'BAME' is oppressive itself & reflects a projected identity onto minoritised communities instead of its true dynamic which is of minoritising, othering & oppressing Black & Brown people. For minoritised groups to use the term 'BAME' is to repeat internalised oppression.
Sep 22, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I invite @BACP to share the Governance process of Motions & Resolutions - what the vetting process & criteria is for a Motion or Resolution to make it eligible for voting on - so how Board made decisions. This transparency would support understanding of why some are/not included. It's important for all members to know that Motions/Resolutions have to comply with Governance/Charity regulation to be eligible, rather than @BACP Board subjectivity. However separate to that are the @BACP responses, which is a reflection of the Board/organisational position.
Sep 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
There are so many problems & implications with this @BACP Motion. Along with many already mentioned: 1) this motion fundamentally changes the professional standard across the organisation - what does MAPS have to say about it? 2) it undermines BACP's own accredited courses (1) 3) it wipes out a huge % of members 'work' & what they have been trained to do, according to PS 4) it means some Board members are not fit to practice LT - as some qualified to L4 - so how can they support this motion, justify being on the Board or say representing members??(2)
Sep 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Delivering another workshop tomorrow on Working withIN Diversity. So pleased that many counselling services, counsellors and organisations are open to learning about intersectionality, identity & power dynamics in therapeutic spaces, process and relationships #counselling #CPD I love delivering training. Today is all about #workingwithindiversity and exploring the identity of counsellors & clients in the counselling room and relationship, especially when working with clients from ethnic minority & marginalised communities #counselling #CPD Image
Sep 16, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
So pleased to be able to bring my workshop - Working withIN diversity - to another cohort of counsellors. Exploring identity, intersectionality, power, privilege & oppression. #workingwithindiversity #intersectionality #counselling Image Exploring positions of oppression and power. Something which exists in the counselling/therapeutic professions & practice. Can be experienced as microaggressions, criticising or dismissing an 'other's' experiences, work, success, projects or progress. Professional envy is real! Image
Sep 10, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Looking forward to delivering this one-day workshop/training to a national counselling service today! #counselling #therapy #training Image When we say 'working with', what we are actually doing and being in, is a Relationship. So both my idenity and the identity of the other person are present and in relationship with one another #relationships #intersectionality #diversity Image
Sep 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The phrase 'Working with Difference and Diversity' - often taught as a module on training courses. But 'difference' implies a comparison, difference from what? What's the starting reference? Whiteness. So difference from Whiteness is to 'other' all non-White clients. Difference means a relationship BETWEEN one person and another, yet the counsellor, positioned as neutral focuses on the cultural diversions from the neutral/normative position of White counsellor.
Aug 16, 2020 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
My next Setting Up in Private Practice workshop is next Saturday 22nd August. Email myira@myirakhancounselling.co.uk to book your place! #SupportingPrivatePractice #counselling #SupportingYou Setting Up in Private Practice
Saturday 22nd Aug.
Covers all the key areas to help you successfully and confidently set-up your #privatepractice 👍🏼 Image
Aug 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Reminder of upcoming workshops! Email myira@myirakhancounselling.co.uk to book your place on any of them. Limited spaces on each date. Image
Aug 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
A survey is being sent out to anyone interested in joining an INclusive walking group, which aims to be faith and culturally-inclusive and meet the needs of walkers from marginalised and minority faith and ethnic communities. Please DM me with your email address if interested. .Just been on @BBCLeicester with @jo_bostock talking about our INclusive walking group - meeting the needs of minority & marginalised communities - to confidently & collectively go on beautiful & enjoyable walks! If interested DM me 👍🏼 @RamblersGB @countrywalking @BBCCountryfile
Jul 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I'm about to go live on-air @BBCLeicester to talk about counselling and the need for more POC to enter the profession AND for the profession to offer culturally-appropriate training #counselling #therapy For people who want to know more about training as a counsellor - see our counselling courses delivered at @LCPCatNo12
Jul 16, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
If someone feels lack in their own life, then someone else's success may be felt as if it's something taken away or now unavailable to them. That the 'pie' is small & not enough for everyone to have a slice or as much as they wanted. This can leave them feeling envious. The response can be to feel envious of THEIR perception of the other person's success or what they think they have. Envious attacks towards others can be subtle, in the form of questioning their choices or what they are doing. This is to destroy, attack or diminish their efforts.
Jul 13, 2020 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
Did you miss this last time? Another opportunity to attend this workshop on Setting up in Private Practice.
Sat 22nd August, 10am-4pm.
All you need to know about confidently setting up your practice. Includes access to templates for GDPR, contracts, social media, marketing & more Image Places booking up! Opportunity for support in setting up your private practice, creating a visible profile, getting your legal responsibility, GDPR & contracts in place, & creating your social media, branding & marketing plan! & post-workshop network group for continued support! Image
Jul 7, 2020 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
Being qualified to work in private practice and setting up/running a private practice are two different skill-sets. Counselling training prepares you for the first, ie. the client/clinical work, but rarely prepares you for the 'business' side of the practice. Image I'm regularly asked by many newly qualified & established counsellors to supervisee them. Many approach me because I support practitioners to establish, launch and run their private practice, alongside supporting their clincial practice. #counselling #SupportingPrivatePractice
Jul 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This! 👇🏼 For all professional bodies that register counsellors & therapists, you need to make training on culture, ethnicity, privilege and power mandatory on counselling and therapy training courses.
@BACP @UKCP_Updates @BABCP @ncs_media @BPSOfficial @BritPsyCouncil @BPApsychUK 📣 For all professional bodies and training institutions - you are the gatekeepers to this profession! We need to work together to make radical and necessary shifts in our training and profession to offer the social justice, which we claim to stand for!
Jun 28, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Being able to participate in any activity, hobby, interest or sport, without thinking of how you will be treated, perceived or stated at, out of suspicion or curiosity, or a sense of 'you don't belong here' and never feeling the 'odd one out' is a privilege #WhitePrivilege To teach and talk about structural inequalities in society, to understand & work with our client's lived experiences, is to understand these internal feelings of not belonging, lack of access and inclusion, being treated & related to as 'not the norm' or unusual... (2)
Jun 27, 2020 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Spending today putting together all the slides, handouts and worksheets, to help those attending the 'Setting up and Running a Successful Private Practice' Workshop. There's so much to cover! I'm so excited for this event! #TherapistsConnect #CPD #SupportingPrivatePractice I've intentionally made this workshop very interactive and engaging. I love it when I leave workshops with the tools, techniques and frameworks for how to implement the learning. So I now do this for all of my own workshops! #CPD #SupportingPrivatePractice #GrowthHacks #lifehacks Image
Jun 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
What is the one tip you would give to someone starting/launching their private practice? It's always great to hear what helped other counsellors and therapists! 😊👍🏼#TherapistsConnect Some great tips here! Keep them coming in! What would you like to have been told when you launched your private practice? What makes your service successful?#TherapistsConnect #privatepractice #counselling
Jun 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Inclusivity is not the same as understanding a person's lived experience because of their identity. Inclusivity sits as a gatekeeper to access or denial of therapy. Once past the gate you still need to acknowledge a client's world, frame of reference & experience (1) You may get 'diverse' clients accessing your service but that's just one of many barriers clients have had to overcome, just to get through the door. Once in the client's seat is their experience being understood through their lens, their experiences, their identity? (2)
Jun 6, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
We need to do some 'housekeeping' within our own profession. The systemic & structural inequalities don't just live 'out there'. Barriers to training, lack of support on courses, lack of integral cultural training being embedded across all training courses as standard (1) Lack of jobs & access to work opportunities and promotions, lack of visible role models, lack of mentors & leaders, lack of funding, lack of diversity on teaching courses (2)