Supervisors

My supervision style is rooted in a relational/psychodynamic approach, emphasising the unique dynamics of each supervisory relationship. I integrate my training as a Relational Transactional Analyst with contemporary psychotherapy theories to create an intersubjective space where both conscious and unconscious factors are explored. Key aspects of my approach include: Balancing Challenge and Support: I prioritise a supportive environment that also challenges supervisees, tailored to their developmental level and learning needs. Reflective Practice: I encourage supervisees to engage in self-reflection and consider transference and countertransference dynamics to enhance understanding of client interactions. Contractual Structure: A clear supervision contract is central, providing a safe container for exploration while addressing ethical and developmental considerations. Focus on Intersubjectivity: I explore the relational dynamics between client and therapist, mirrored in the supervisor-supervisee relationship, fostering deeper insights into clinical work.     

State: NSW, TAS 
City or Town/Suburb: National
Phone: +61 405 019 508
Email: bmctherapy@protonmail.com
Website: www.bradmclean.com.au
Services: individual supervision, group supervision, Balint groups and reading groups
Modalities: Psychodynamic, relational and integrative
Professional Associations: PACFA, ITAA, IARRP

I see supervision as a collaborative space to explore learning, growth, and awareness of yourself as a practitioner. It’s a space to reflect and be curious about ourselves in the work we do. Underpinned by existentialism and phenomenology, in practice I aim to foster healing through authentic encounters using a meta-perspective of dynamics in the client-therapist and therapist-supervisor relationship. My curiosity is motivated by understanding the human condition – which looks different to every supervisee I work with, and is the reason I love supervision!

State: QLD
City or Town/Suburb: Brisbane, Lockyer Valley and surrounds 
Phone: 0432 898 440
Email: somersetfamilytherapist@gmail.com
Website: 
Services: individual supervision offered both online and face to face
Modalities: Existential
Professional Associations: The ACA (Australia Counselling Association)

 My approach to supervision is explorative and focuses on content in process and embodied knowing (including Focusing). I draw on a thirty-year career across a range of settings as a therapist: family therapy, family violence, mental health, trauma-informed practice, counselling with refugees, work with children, play and art therapy, couples therapy, aged care and supervison (of students and therapists). I have completed the CEP supervision training and attend continuing CEP group development for supervisors. I am a musician and improvisor.

State: TAS
City or Town/Suburb: Hobart
Phone: 0438 249 867
Email: ajoyb@bigpond.com
Website: 
Services: Group & individual supervison – face-to-face, online (skype or zoom), telephone
Modalities: Existential-Phenomenological supervision, Focusing, arts-based exploration
Professional Associations: PACFA, ASOS

Supervision is such an integral and vital part of our support system as therapists. It’s our sounding board; a place of continual learning. I work in a Soul Centred psychotherapeutic approach with both groups and individuals, creating a space where supervisees can explore their worries and concerns as well as the many complexities and dynamics that often arise as part of the ongoing work with a client, and truly be listened to. Soul Centred Psychotherapy is a humanistic-psychodynamic modality that focuses on the human experience and all its complexity. I work in a reflective, curious and relational way. The sessions are rich and educational. They help and assist the supervisee to feel resourced, centred and supported before stepping back into the chair with their client.

State: VIC
City or Town/Suburb: Caulfield South
Phone: 0413 054 378
Email: indy@dreamengine.com.au
Website: lindyspanger.com.au
Services: Group and Indvidual supervision. Face-to-face and Zoom
Modalities: Soul Centred Psychotherapy
Professional Associations: Clinical Member of PACFA, Clinical member of the ASCP

Having space to pause, reflect and discuss thoughts and feelings freely is imperative for anyone, particularly in a helping profession. I love working in the supervision space, and I work with a range of disciplines including counsellors, psychotherapists, youth workers, social workers, support workers, support coordinators and mental health practitioners. I have extensive experience in working with youth and families and have a passion for education – working for over a decade in the Department of Education and in the tertiary education space, providing supervision within Master of Social Work Courses. I am authentic and intuitive and I am passionate about working with supervisees to explore their own worldview, biases and the influence our belief systems have on our work. I support and challenge supervisees through reflection to explore and evolve their own professional identity in a safe and clear space. 

State: VIC
City or Town/Suburb: Ringwood and Virtual
Phone:0402 916 758
Email:supervisionwithalex@gmail.com 
Website: 
Services: Individual supervision, group supervision, organisational group supervision – online and face-to-face
Modalities: Existential, person centred, strengths-based
Professional Associations: AASW (Australian Association of Social Workers)

Having a place to freely discuss thoughts, feelings and attitudes widens the horizons of a practitioner at all stages of our professional lives. Each clinical situation is unique and presents its own challenges. I believe Supervision to be a working alliance between the supervisor and therapist in which the therapist can discuss their work and reflect on themselves as clinicians. My intention is to be mindful of relational skills that emphasise presence, alliance, compassion, collaboration and context-informed authenticity. My work is grounded in existential and contemplative traditions that recognise the deep understanding of our embodied relationship with social, environmental, developmental, relational, spiritual, and cultural aspects of our experience as therapists. I offer supervision to counsellors, psychotherapists, allied health professionals and yoga therapists, recognising the unique perspectives we bring to our work, and try to identify and illuminate our fields of growth.

State: NSW
City or Town/Suburb: Byron Bay
Phone: 0409 909 930
Email:sflynn@stillmotion.net.au
Website: salflynn.au
Services: Individual supervision, group supervision, face-to-face, zoom
Modalities: Existential, Embodied practice, Mindfulness
Professional Associations: Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA: Clinical Member 22705); International Association of Yoga Therapists (Clinical); Australian Association of Yoga Therapists

Supervision is an interruption to our work life. It stops us and wakes us up to our work practices. I use narrative-based supervision to facilitate this interruption and help individuals and groups create new stories. Narrative-based supervision is a collaborative and reflective space. It centres practitioners and clients as the experts of their lives. My role is to provide a safe and supportive space that allows for rich discussion, exploration, and creating awareness of the experiences, knowledge, and skills of each supervisee and their clients as key to understanding what they are facing. Narrative-based supervision is a place to think about your work and story your professional identity.

State: VIC
City or Town/Suburb: Melbourne, Berwick
Phone: 0413 544 482
Email: nicole@definingstories.com.au
Website: defining stories.com.au
Services: Individual supervision, group supervision, face-to-face, zoom, telephone
Modalities: Narrative Practice & Therapy
Professional Associations: Australian Counselling Association

My passion and commitment for counselling and supervision arose out of 15 years combined training and practice. Prior to completing the Centre for Existential Practice’s Wheel of Supervision training course, I attained a Masters and Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Human Services from La Trobe University, an Advanced Diploma in Applied Science (Naturopathy) and a Certificate in Dance Movement Therapy. This eclectic background, including a career as a dancer, has allowed for insight and a felt sense of what it takes to be present. An experience of burn-out further informed my understanding of the hidden cost in the caring professions.  Having worked in community health, public health and the private sector I hold an overview of the personal, professional and organisational layers that can impact the practitioner along with ethical, legal, competency & confidentiality issues. I invite meaningful enquiry from supervisees exploring these dimensions

State: VIC
City or Town/Suburb: East Melbourne
Phone: 0402 407 925
Email: Suzanne@suzannehurley.com.au
Website: www.fertileground.com.au

Services: Individual and small group supervision, face to face, Skype/Zoom, phone
Modalities: Person centred, Humanistic, Feminist Framework, Process Experiential, Emotion Focused, Movement-based Processing
Professional Associations: Clinical Member PACFA, ANZICA, DTAA

Supervision as a reflective practice is the primary focus of my work with supervisees.  I believe supervision provided in a solid relational frame is the foundation for ongoing personal and professional growth. I’ve been a practicing psychotherapist for over 10 years and a supervisor since 2012. My practice as a therapist and supervisor is predominantly influenced by existential, psychodynamic, and humanistic philosophy and theory. I have also studied psychosomatic psychotherapy and Focusing which provide supervisory perspectives that are different again. In supervision I offer a supportive and safe environment where therapists of any level of experience can come to holistically explore their practice with clients through a multi-faceted lens and also reflect on themselves as clinicians. I offer supervision to therapists, counsellors, nutritionists and other allied health professionals and I work to create a space in which personal and professional clarity and growth can flourish. 

State: NSW
City or Town/Suburb: St Leonards, Sydney
Phone: 0419 468 072
Email: holder05@bigpond.net.au
Website: www.bluehealer.net.au

Services: Individual and Group Supervision, face-to-face and Skype
Modalities: Existential, Psychodynamic, Humanistic
Professional Associations: Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA), Jung Society

I have a private supervision practice in inner city Ultimo and online. I have worked as a psychotherapist for 27 years and as a supervisor for 22 years during which time I’ve developed a passion for the healing and supporting work of supervision. I offer individual supervision to a diverse clientele including new counsellors finding their way, experienced psychotherapists, case workers and social workers, chaplains, ministers and pastoral carers as well as group supervision. My psychotherapeutic and supervision background is in Emotionally Focused and Existential approaches and my approach in supervision is holistic, reflective and supportive. In a collaborative process I endeavour to tailor to the skills, level of experience and modality of the supervisee.

State: NSW
City or Town/Suburb: Sydney – Ultimo
Phone: 0412 004 764
Email: jogotherapy@gmail.com
Website: 

Services: Individual supervision face-to-face and online and f-2-f group supervision
Modalities: Existential, Emotionally-Focused, Focusing and Mindfulness
Professional Associations: PACFA, ARCAP

Reflective Practice is at the heart of my supervision which is informed by an Existential approach, encompasses Focusing where appropriate and which respects other modalities. My background is in Social Work and I am an accredited Mental Health Social Worker with extensive experience in the area of sexual assault, domestic violence and PTSD, having managed the Sexual Assault Service at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for 14 years. Having also had lived experience of the environment and challenges of working at street level in youth homelessness, substance abuse and HIV/AIDS, I am able to bring both compassion and realism to my supervision practice in these areas. I am passionate about the empowerment of women and providing supervision that optimises the growth and development of the individual and/or the group, starting with clearly negotiated ways of working between us and the exchanging of feedback. 

State: New South Wales
City or Town/Suburb: Sydney (outer western suburbs) and Central Coast
Phone: 0408 260 604
Email: anniecrowe@hotmail.com

Services: Face-to-face individual and group supervision – for people in management and sole workers. Also by phone and skype.
Modalities: Existential and Focusing-informed 
Professional Associations: Australian Association of Social Workers

My supervision involves essentially a process-orientated approach informed from psychodynamic and exisitential models but also includes cognitive, emotional and humanistic inputs. The work is always tailored to the experience and skill level of the supervisee. It is my view that, as therapists, we are the main “tool” in the room and it is ourselves who enable a safe therapeutic space for clients to talk. This requires the therapist to understand not only what is going on in the room between themselves and their clients, but also what is going on within themselves. Supervison assists greatly in this aspect of the work. My work with supervisees assists in identifying the process or transferencial aspects of the therapy. Through this work the supervisee is able to identify issues that may be causing blockages in the therapy.

State: Victoria
City or Town/Suburb: South Yarra, Melbourne
Phone: 0414 410 298
Email: geoffrey.newbegin@gmail.com
Website: 

Services: Individual Supervision: face-to-face, skype, telephone
Modalities:Psychodynamic, Existential
Professional Associations: APHRA

I am an experienced person-centred supervisor engaging a contemplative approach. I mainly supervise pastoral and spiritual care practitioners. My doctorate: ‘Supervising from a Contemplative Stance’ at La Trobe University, School of Psychology and Public Health explores what a contemplative approach contributes to supervisors, spiritual care practioners and public health. I have published articles and facilitated workshops on supervision overseas and locally

State: VIC
City or Town/Suburb: Caulfield South
Phone: 0432 381 219
Email: dunganlynette@gmail.com
Website: 

Services: Individual Supervision, Supervision of Supervision: face-to-face, zoom/google meet
Modalities: contemplative stance, spiritual care, pastoral, compassionate care
Professional Associations: AAOS (Australasian Association of Supervision)