Are you looking for support in your professional practice to help you grow and develop as a professional? As professionals, we can encounter intense, complex, thought-provoking, or ethically challenging scenarios that leave a lasting impact on our personal experiences, and vice versa. Professional Supervision is a beneficial tool that unpacks these experiences and offers a safe place to debrief, explore and grow our professional selves.

I offer Professional Supervision to allied health and youth workers, therapists, counsellors, practitioners and clinicians. I am trained in providing supervision through postgraduate training and have experience in a range of fields over my 20-year career. I have specialist expertise in the field of sexuality, and am a qualified and practicing Sexologist and Occupational Therapist. I have worked previously as an Advanced Health Improvement Practitioner. My practice approaches include behavioural change therapy, allied health functional and mental health assessment and brief intervention talking therapy.

Supervision is $150.00 per hour, including GST. Supervision can be either privately funded or organisation-funded. It can be provided online anywhere in Aotearoa via Zoom. Contact me using the 10-minute complimentary consultation to discuss your particular needs.

My supervision service utilises a Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Approach, Strengths Approach and Reflective Practice. I offer supervision which supports bicultural practice and upholds the expectations of practising in Aotearoa New Zealand under Te Tiriti o Waitangi. My approach focuses on asking the right questions to help you arrive at the correct answer for yourself, rather than assuming I know the best solutions to address issues, problems, and challenges. It is about growing you as a person and as a professional.

Please note I make the distinction between Professional Supervision and Clinical Supervision through the following definitions:

Professional Supervision is focused on developing the practitioner’s skills, understanding, abilities and ethical requirements of practice in your profession. The focus is on how you perceive, think, and feel, and how you want to develop your practice as a Professional. It provides the opportunity to debrief, reflect on your experiences and plan towards personal development in your profession. The guiding principles of Strengths practice include: Power ‘With‘ – collaborative process, Social Justice – reflecting on equality, Strength’s Emphasis, and Self-Determiation – practitioner goals (practitioner-directed practice). You are the driver of what gets discussed and reflected on.

Clinical Supervision is focused on developing the practitioner’s clinical role and practice, with a focus on quality control and assessment of the supervisee’s knowledge, roles, attitudes, beliefs, and skills. This focus is primarily on your competence to complete the role and manage specific caseload/client issues. Often provided by a senior Clinician of the same profession as you and follows a more authoritative, competency check approach.

Therefore, people from various professions benefit from Professional Supervision. Often, questions from someone outside the same professional ‘box’ can be the most useful for internal enquiries and growth. Professional Supervision is guided by a supervision agreement that clarifies expectations, frequency, mode, objectives, and responsibilities.

There is no shared agreement or single definition of supervision, and across disciplines, various definitions exist. But there are some common understandings about what it is. Davys & Beddoe, 2021, p.56 refer to these understandings in the following way below:

Read more here for an example of Supervision requirements for occupational therapists practising in Aotearoa New Zealand

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