Biography
Dr Caryl Sibbett (PhD)
HCPC Reg., Reg. Member MBACP (Snr Accred),
PhD, MD (h.c.), MEd (Guid. & Couns.), BA, DipCouns, CertACE, FHEA, FBACP.
Regional Representative for Art Therapy on the Advisory Committee of the Allied Health Professions (ACAHP) to the Department of Health NI / Minister of Health.
Senior Accredited Supervisor (BACP).
Clinical Supervisor for arts therapists, counsellors, psychotherapists, other practitioners, clinical leads & CEOs in diverse statutory, third sector & private settings.
Art Psychotherapist HCPC Registered.
Senior Accredited Counsellor / Psychotherapist (BACP).
Teaching - I am a Core Tutor, teaching on several trauma-informed post-qualifying courses:
Post-Qualifying Diploma in Trauma-Informed Counselling / Psychotherapy with Children and Young People - this course attracts counsellors, art therapists, play therapists etc, I co-designed the course & curriculum & I mapped it to BACP's CYP Competences, HCPC standards etc.
Post-Qualifying Certificate in Creative Supervision of Practice Across the Age Range - this course attracts counsellors, art therapists, play therapists etc. I co-designed the course & curriculum & I mapped it to BACP's Supervision Competences, HCPC standards etc
I am a Ret'd Senior Lecturer (Art Psychotherapy) UU, & Lecturer (Education, special needs, counselling, art therapy) QUB.
I founded & led Master's level Art Therapy / Art Psychotherapy training in Northern Ireland in the early 2000s in Queen's University Belfast. I evolved the course & led it in the Belfast HSC Trust until 2016. I evolved it again as a trauma-informed pluralistic training. I later established & led it in another university until Aug. 2019. Since then the course was changed (no longer pluralistic or trauma-informed), reduced & moved in a different direction. Although I subsequently taught on it, various staff left, & in Autumn 2023 most staff including myself left citing ethical reasons.
Fellow of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Vice Chair of the British Association of Art Therapists.
Doctorate in Medicine (MD honoris causa): Riga Stradins University, Latvia.
Artist.
My practice is trauma-informed & pluralistic, & also informed by ecotherapy principles.
I am security cleared through AccessNI.
I am registered with the Information Commissioner‘s Office (ICO)
and comply with data protection requirements.
Current activities include:
Appointed as Regional Representative for Art Therapy on the Advisory Committee of the Allied Health Professions (ACAHP) to the Dept of Health NI. (Mar. 2024 - )
Appointed as an External Quality Advisor (for counselling, psychotherapy, psychological trauma courses), Chester University. (Sept. 2023 - )
Elected Vice-Chair of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) (Jul. 2021- ).
Elected Vice-Chair of BAAT NI, the NI national/regional group of BAAT (Mar. 2023 - ).
Elected member of BAAT NI Committee. BAAT NI is a Regional Group of BAAT. (Feb. 2021- )
Core Tutor lecturing on: Post-Qualifying Diploma in Trauma-Informed Counselling / Psychotherapy with Children & Young People (CPCAB level 5) (2013 - ).
Core Tutor lecturing on: Post-Qualifying Certificate in Creative Supervision of Practice Across the Age Range (CPCAB level 6) (2017 - ).
A BAAT NI Committee representative on the AHP Non HSC Professions Forum (Mar. 2021– ).
Invited member of the Steering group for the Pluralistic Practice Network (Oct. 2019 - ).
Full Member: British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT)
Full Member: British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
Life Member: Northern Ireland Group for Art as Therapy (NIGAT)
Past professional activities include:
Elected Deputy Chair of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) (Nov. 2017–Dec. 2020).
Elected Interim Deputy Chair of BACP (May 2017-Nov. 2017).
Elected as Trustee on Board of Governors of BACP, Nov. 2011–2014, re-elected Nov. 2014-2017, re-elected Nov. 2017-2020).
Director, BACP Enterprises Ltd.
Elected as Council member of BAAT (2018-2019).
Director: Arts Therapies NI (C.I.C.)
Joint Co-ordinator of the BAAT Regional Group 20 (Northern Ireland) (2017-2018)
Editorial Review Board Committee Member: CATA-ACATJ (Canadian Art Therapy Association: Journal)
Member of the Allied Health Professions Federation NI (2014–2016).
Associate Fellow: Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick
Appointed as Chair of the Counselling Children & Young People Training Consortium (NI), a group of key stakeholders / service providers of counselling services in NI (2010-2013).
Member of the Mental Health, Ageing & Learning Disability Translational Research Group
Lecturer: Queen's University Belfast (2002-2012)
Member of the Executive Committee of the BACP Counselling Children & Young People division
Chair of the Counselling Children & Young People Training Consortium (NI)
Member of the Executive Committee of the BACP Counselling Children and Young People division (2010-Nov. 2011).
Invited onto the national Steering group of the BACP CYP PRN, Children & Young People Practice Research Network (2010-2012).
Invited member of the BACP Children and Young People Stakeholders Reference Group (2010–2013).
Appointed in 2008 as the first co-ordinator of BAAT NI, the BAAT Regional Group (20) for NI.
Contractual partnership as Registrant Assessor with the Health Professions Council (2005-2006).
Elected as Chair of the Allied Health Professions Research Forum for Northern Ireland (2007-2010).
Elected member of the central Advisory Committee of the Allied Health Professions (ACAHP) to the Department of Health NI (2003-2009). ACAHP was a statutory Advisory Body whose function was to provide advice to the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety NI (DHSSPSNI) on the planning and provision of Allied Health Professions’ services in NI.
Elected as Council member of BAAT (2005-2006).
Invited as a member of the Arts Therapies Benchmark Group of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, a small group contracted by the HPC, to author:
- QAA (2004) ‘Arts therapy. Benchmark statement: Health care programmes’. Phase 2, QAA.Invited as a member of the Arts Therapies Working Group of the Health Professions Council & the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, a small group contracted to author:
- HPC (2003) ‘Standards of Proficiency - Arts Therapists’.Elected Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Committee Member of the NI Group for Art as Therapy (NIGAT).
