Supervision is an essential part of professional growth for health and social service agency practitioners. I believe in the professional supervision process being enabling, useful and relevant for supervisees who are front line workers, managers and/or leaders. I work collaboratively to create a supervisory environment that is respectful, strengths based and solution focused, with a focus on sustaining professional wellbeing in the context of team, organizational and institutional dynamics and challenges.
I enjoy assisting practitioners to achieve culturally safe, high quality, ethical practice standards and to seek the best outcomes for clients and organizations. Encouraging practice that promotes critical reflection and analysis, linking theory to practice and advocating for continuing professional development.
I support culturally competent, responsive service delivery consequently awareness of te Ao Māori and matauranga Māori concepts, models and frameworks is the never- ending learning journey along with an increasing knowledge and understanding of models and frameworks from other cultural and ethnic groups in Aotearoa.
I can offer Supervision kanohi ki te kanohi (face to face) or Zoom. You are very welcome to contact me.
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Social Work reflective practice.
ACT
CBT
Managing complex work situations and team dynamics.
New graduate development.
Fieldwork placements.
Mental Health.
Child and Adolescents.
LGBTQ.
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Currently the Lead DBT therapist at Te Whare Mahana and private practice . Available by videoconferencing or in person in Takaka. 25 years of social work DBT, somatic experiencing, narrative family therapy, supervision, self-care, psychodynamic, integrating Whanau Ora and other therapy practices, art therapy, leadership, parent and child/adolescents . Help you shine, learn, be effective and take care of yourself
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Adults, Advanced Social Work Methods (e.g. Resistant Clients/Addictions/FV), Advocacy in Social Work, Biculturalism in Practice, Care and Protection, Casework, Child Abuse Detection and Prevention, Clinical, Clinical Practice Issues, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Collaborative Approach, Conflict Resolution, Continuing Professional Development, Counselling, Couple Therapy, Cross Discipline, Culturally Safe Practice, Dads, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Ecological Model, Ethical Practice, External, Family Focussed, Feminist Approach, Fieldwork (student), Find a Supervisor, Group, Holistic Supervision Approach, Management & leadership, Mentoring, Mindfulness Strategies, Narrative Approach, Nelson Marlborough, NGOs/Community Agencies, Online Supervision, Personal Development, Practitioner, Professional, Project management, Reflective, Reflexive Practice, Relational Approach, Safe Practice, School, Strengths Based, Stress Management, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Systemic Family Therapy, Theoretical Perspectives, Trauma Grief Loss, Trauma Therapy, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness, Workplace Organisational & Team Dynamics, Youth Work
My study at Te Wānanga in 2017 allowed development and consolidation of my own bicultural model of Kaitiakitanga and supervision interweaving Te Āo Maori values. The story of my ancestors of English and Tahitan descent help me to consider a bicultural journey as way to reflect on how we are to engage in relationships. Āta, Ako and Āhurutanga are the tenets to my model. I draw upon their lessons of careful deliberation, reciprocal learning, in developing a safe space. Growth, mana and transformation are central to the supervisory relationship and reflective practice core to this.
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My supervision approach is based on strength based relational practice and acknowledges the inherent value, opportunities and challenges/risks of working within human services.
I believe self care, and professional development are essential aspects of social work practice as are the opportunities to reflect, enquire and make changes.
My approach encompasses appreciative enquiry, motivational interviewing and solution focused. I believe supervision is a doorway to possibilities, action and hope. It requires integrity, curiosity, clarity, openness from both the supervisor and supervisee.
I offer sessions with individuals and within group/peer supervision.
I appreciate working within cross cultural and multidisciplinary contexts.
I have a personal experience of neurodiversity so believe I can offer insight into this in a professional/work context
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Adults, Advocacy in Social Work, Best Practice, Care and Protection, Casework, Clinical Practice Issues, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Collaborative Approach, Continuing Professional Development, Counselling, Crisis Management, Cross Discipline, Culturally Safe Practice, Disability, Ethical Practice, External, Facilitative Approach, Family Focussed, Fieldwork, Fieldwork (student), Group, Health & Disability, Holistic Supervision Approach, Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPPT), Management & leadership, Marginalised Groups, Mental health, Mentoring, Migrant Refugee Communities, Mindfulness Strategies, Motivational interviewing, NGOs/Community Agencies, Online Supervision, Peer, Personal Development, Play Therapy, Practitioner, Professional, Reflective, Reflective Practice, Reflexive Practice, Relational Approach, Risk Management, Safe Practice, Sand-tray Work, School, Social Service Profession, Solution Focussed Social Work, Solution Focussed Therapy, Statutory Work, Strengths Based, Stress Management, Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, Transformative Practice, Trauma Grief Loss, Voluntary Sector, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness, Worker Safety & Boundaries, Workplace Organisational & Team Dynamics
Supporting Social Workers to enhance systemic practice, work with complex family dynamics, help clients to think relationally and further skills in working with more than one family member at a time. Using an attachment and developmental lens to enhance relationships between parents/caregivers and children. Extending skills in the management of suicide risk, self-harm and other mental health concerns, particularly for adolescents. Supporting professional development and healthy workplace relationships.
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Best Practice, Canterbury Otautahi, Casework, Clinical, Clinical Practice Issues, Collaborative Approach, Continuing Professional Development, Counselling, Crisis Management, Cross Discipline, Ethical Practice, External, Family Focussed, Find a Supervisor, Mental health, Migrant Refugee Communities, Narrative Approach, NGOs/Community Agencies, Practitioner, Professional, Relational Approach, Risk Management, Sand-tray Work, School, Solution Focussed Therapy, Strengths Based, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Systemic Family Therapy, Theoretical Perspectives, Trauma Grief Loss, Trauma Therapy, Women's Issues, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness, Workplace Organisational & Team Dynamics
Strengths-Based & Reflective Supervision. Child-Centred Approach, Self-Care, Safety Planning, The Recovery Model.
I am passionate about helping students and new graduates explore their new-found passion within Social Work with an emphasis on Self-Care and Theory to Practice.
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I am passionate about empowering social workers to provide the highest quality of reflective practice they can. I have a great deal of experience in working with complex and vulnerable clients and feel I could be helpful in providing supervision for those also working with these challenges. I personally enjoy providing couple and family therapy and would love to help social workers eager to improve their practice in this area.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Addictions, Advanced Social Work Methods (e.g. Resistant Clients/Addictions/FV), Best Practice, Biculturalism in Practice, Care and Protection, Casework, Child Abuse Detection and Prevention, Clinical, Continuing Professional Development, Couple Therapy, Crisis Management, Cross Discipline, Ethical Practice, Evidence Based Practice, External, Family Focussed, Fieldwork, Fieldwork (student), Find a Supervisor, Group, Holistic Supervision Approach, Marginalised Groups, Mental health, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Strategies, Motivational interviewing, Narrative Approach, NGOs/Community Agencies, Online Supervision, Personal Development, Professional, Reflective, Reflective Practice, Risk Management, Social Service Profession, Solution Focussed Social Work, Solution Focussed Therapy, Strengths Based, Stress Management, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Systemic Family Therapy, Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, Task Centred, Workplace Organisational & Team Dynamics, Youth Work
