D r  C a r y l  S i b b e t t  (PhD)

Current roles include: 

• BACP Senior Accredited Supervisor;

• BACP Registered Senior Accredited Counsellor / Psychotherapist; 

• Art Psychotherapist (HCPC Registered); 

• Teaching on a Level 5 Post-Qualifying Diploma in Trauma-Informed Counselling Children & Young People (CPCAB) & co-design of curriculum;

• Teaching on a Level 6 Post-Qualifying Certificate in Creative Supervision of Practice Across the Age Range (CPCAB) & co-design of curriculum.

• Teaching on the core teaching team of the MSc Art Psychotherapy at the Belfast School of Art, Ulster University. I designed the course, curriculum & practicum components, after having founded Master's level Art Therapy training in NI and led the training since 2002.

• Member of the BACP's School and college counselling expert reference group.

• Vice Chair of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT), the UK professional body for Art Therapists / Art Psychotherapists.

• Committee member of BAAT NI, the NI regional group of BAAT.

• Life member of the Northern Ireland Group for Art as Therapy (NIGAT).

Kairos - An opportune time and space where 

creative transformation is possible. 

"Kairos reigns where creative purposes
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Past roles include:

• Senior Lecturer in Art Psychotherapy, UU.

• Founded Art Psychotherapy qualifying training in Northern Ireland. Designing the MSc programme from the late 1990s, I led its initial CPSM / HPC approval and University validation and subsequent HCPC approvals and re-validations. I led the programme from its establishment in 2002 in Queen's University, later in the BHSCT, and then in Ulster University until I retired as a Senior Lecturer & Course Director of the MSc Art Psychotherapy. 

• A past Deputy Chair of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), having also served as a Trustee for nine years.

• Lecturer in Education, QUB, teaching education, art therapy, counselling.

• Member of the Executive Committee of the BACP's Children, Young People and Family Division.

• Member of the steering group of the BACP's Children and Young People Practice Research Network.

• Chair of the Allied Health Professions Research Forum for Northern Ireland.

• Chair of the NI Counselling Children & Young People Training Consortium.

• Member of an expert group guiding tender specification for Independent Counselling Service for Schools – Department of Education NI

• Member of the central Advisory Committee of the Allied Health Professions (ACAHP) to the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety Northern Ireland.

• Contracted as a member of the Arts Therapies Benchmark Group (of the Health Professions Council working with The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) which created the Arts therapy. Benchmark statement: Health care programmes (2004).

• Contracted as a member of the Arts Therapies Working Group (of the Health Professions Council working with The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) which created the  Standards of Proficiency - Arts Therapists (2003).