South East Suburbs, Melbourne, VIC
Clinical Supervision
Clinical Supervision for Counsellors
Deepen your Clinical Practice and Professional Wellbeing
Hawkins and Shohet (2010) note that "good enough" supervision holds a dual purpose: managing cumulative stress to prevent burnout, while enabling you to learn and flourish.
I believe your "good enough" is enough. Striving to grow doesn't mean being perfect - it means deepening your reflective self. Let’s work together to strengthen the practitioner you already are and the one you are striving to become.
Individual Clinical Supervision
For counsellors at all stages of practice, including new graduates and private practitioners.
Clinical supervision is a space to pause, reflect, wonder and sometimes untangle the things that feel a little tricky. Together, we can create a safe, compassionate and collaborative space to explore:
- Tricky Ethical Dilemmas: Those uncomfortable grey areas where there isn't always a clear textbook answer. Let's slow things down, explore the different perspectives and work out what feels ethically sound for you and your client.
- Relational Dynamics: Exploring what is happening beneath the presenting issue, including the subtle interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics that can contribute to clients feeling stuck.
- Clinical Presence: Finding the balance between bringing your clinical knowledge and intuition while remaining deeply curious, compassionate and client-centred.
- The Inner Critic: Imposter syndrome doesn't necessarily disappear with experience. We can notice those inner critical voices, explore what they might be trying to protect, and create space to trust your growing clinical wisdom.
- Sustaining Your Practice: Counselling can be deeply rewarding, and holding space for other people's distress can also take a toll. Supervision provides an opportunity to notice what you're carrying, consider what you need, and support a sustainable and meaningful practice.
My intention is to create supervision that is safe enough for vulnerability, curious enough for exploration and challenging enough to keep your practice growing.
An Extra Note for New Graduates and Newer Practitioners
Welcome to your new career!
It takes time to grow our counselling expertise beyond study and student placements. Transitioning into the workforce or private practice can be exciting, rewarding and, at times, a little overwhelming.
I offer a tailored, non-judgemental space where we can:
- Pace your reflections and challenges: Having the guidance and support you need, when you need it, while working collaboratively at a pace that feels right for you.
- Develop your emerging clinical identity: Deepen your self-knowledge, expand your counselling framework and explore the unique clinician you are becoming.
- Look beyond the minimum requirements: Consider your professional development and wellbeing needs beyond registration requirements, particularly when you don't have a team around you to learn and reflect with.
You don't have to have everything figured out. Becoming a counsellor is an ongoing process of learning, reflecting, questioning and discovering how you want to practise.
Clinical Supervision for Supervisors & Leaders
For those supporting, supervising and leading others.
Supervising and leading others can bring its own complexities. You are holding responsibility for your team, your clients, your organisation and often the wellbeing of the people you supervise.
Supervision provides a space to pause, reflect and explore what is happening within and around your leadership role. Together, we can explore:
- The Mirror Effect & Boundaries: Notice the relational and parallel processes that can emerge when supervising others, and explore how these might be influencing your relationships, boundaries and decision-making.
- Deepening Your Presence: Explore your own internal processes, assumptions, values and vulnerabilities, so you can bring your authentic self to your leadership while remaining thoughtfully aware of your role.
- When a Supervisee Seems Reluctant: Rather than rushing to fix or change a supervisee who appears guarded or disengaged, explore what might be happening beneath the surface and how safety, curiosity and trust might support the relationship.
- The Manager/Supervisor Dilemma: Explore the complexities of holding both managerial and clinical supervision responsibilities, including how to navigate boundaries, expectations, accountability and power.
- The Bigger Picture: Consider workplace culture, organisational dynamics, power, unspoken expectations and the broader context that influences how you and your team work together.
- Sustaining Your Leadership: Holding responsibility for others can be demanding. Supervision provides a space to notice what you are carrying, reflect on your own needs and consider ways of supporting a healthy, compassionate and sustainable workplace culture.
My intention is to create a supervision space where you can be curious about your leadership, explore the complexities of your role and have somewhere to bring the things that aren't always easy to talk about elsewhere.
Group Supervision for Counsellors
"Learning takes place through social participation." — Michael Carroll (2009)
Affordable PACFA-Registered Group Supervision
Group supervision can be a wonderful companion to individual supervision, offering a space to learn with and from others while building connection, safety and a sense of community.
I believe group supervision works best when we create a space grounded in respectful curiosity, empathy and active listening. A space where different perspectives are welcomed, questions are encouraged and we can learn from each other's experiences.
Group supervision is a space where we can:
- Build collective wisdom: Share experiences, ideas and perspectives with colleagues and discover how much we can learn from each other.
- Explore ethical dilemmas together: Bring those tricky grey areas to the group and consider different perspectives, possibilities and ways forward.
- Strengthen professional connection: Create supportive networks for private practitioners who may not have a team around them, or strengthen connection and reflective practice within existing teams.
To support a deep and reflective supervision space, I offer:
- Small, closed groups of 4–5 counsellors.
- Small, closed groups of 4–5 supervisors for supervision of supervision.
- A six-month commitment structure, reviewed and renewed together.
My intention is to create a group where you can bring your questions, challenges and curiosities, knowing that you don't have to navigate your practice alone.
👉 Contact me to secure your spot for the upcoming term!
External Team Group Supervision
An external space for teams to pause, reflect and think together.
Sometimes teams need a space outside the organisation and management, to talk about the work they do, the relationships they navigate and the things that can be difficult to explore within their usual workplace structures.
External team group supervision offers an opportunity to step back from the day-to-day demands and consider both the individual practitioner experience and the wider team context.
Together, we can explore:
- Reflective Practice: Make space to think more deeply about clinical work, professional relationships and the experiences that stay with us.
- Team Dynamics: Notice the relational and parallel processes that may be emerging within your team, and consider how these might influence the way we work together and support clients.
- Ethical and Clinical Complexity: Bring those tricky situations where there isn't an obvious answer and explore different perspectives with curiosity and compassion.
- Psychological Safety: Create a space where colleagues can ask questions, acknowledge uncertainty and bring vulnerability without fear of judgement.
- Organisational Context: Consider how workplace culture, roles, power, expectations and organisational pressures can influence both individual practice and team relationships.
- Supporting Sustainable Practice: Make space to notice what the team is carrying and consider what might support wellbeing, connection and sustainable clinical practice.
My intention is to create an external supervision space where teams can slow down, think together and develop a deeper understanding of both their clinical work and the relationships that shape it.
Because sometimes stepping outside the workplace is exactly what helps us see what's happening within it.
