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-designer of curriculum. I co-mapped the course to BACP CYP competences and curriculum and to BAAT and HCPC guidelines.

• Teaching on a Level 6 Post-Qualifying Certificate in Creative Supervision of Practice Across the Age Range (CPCAB); & co-designer of curriculum. I co-mapped the course to BACP supervision competences and curriculum and to BAAT and HCPC guidelines.

• Member of the BACP's School and college counselling expert reference group, a BACP priority workstream. 

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

• Deputy Chair of BAAT NI, the NI regional group of BAAT.

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

• Owner & founder of Kairos Consultancy in NI.

Kairos - An opportune time and space where 

creative transformation is possible. 

"Kairos reigns where creative purposes
are to be achieved"

Past roles include:

• Senior Lecturer - lecturing in Art Psychotherapy.

• Founded Art Psychotherapy MSc level qualifying training in Northern Ireland. Designing the MSc programme from the mid/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 another University until I retired as a Senior Lecturer & Programme Leader of the MSc Art Psychotherapy in Autumn 2019. Since then the training has changed and been led in a different direction.

• 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, special needs, 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).