Empowering Social Work Practitioners to make positive decisions that will benefit their client and whanau health and wellbeing. Enhance self-care and professional development according to their skills and abilities to further and strengthen their practice. Strengthen professional boundaries, Culturally safe practice and manage complex situations. Knowledge of different cultures that will not impede on client and whanau values. Balancing work and personal life, leadership and professional development. Integrating theory and practice.
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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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Reflective practice where the supervisee is encouraged to explore matters from different perspectives, empower the individual professional to find alternatives to handling a situation, leadership and management development, time management and efficiency within the work space, supporting safe and high quality practice, supporting analysis and creative and innovative ways to solution findings, risk management.
As an experienced Social Worker working in leadership I would like to support other Social Worker’s with their clinical practice and/ or in their leadership and management development.
Outside of my work life I enjoy and believe in an active and healthy lifestyle. I offer supervision via Skype or face to face at a location convenient to you. I am based in rural Hamilton
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Advanced Social Work Methods (e.g. Resistant Clients/Addictions/FV), Bay of Plenty Waiariki, Best Practice, Canterbury Otautahi, Care and Protection, Casework, Clinical, Clinical Practice Issues, Collaborative Approach, Continuing Professional Development, Coromandel, Crisis Management, Ethical Practice, Evidence Based Practice, Facilitative Approach, Family Focussed, Fieldwork, Fieldwork (student), Find a Supervisor, Hawkes Bay, Holistic Supervision Approach, Management & leadership, Manawatu Whanganui, Mental health, Mentoring, Mindfulness Strategies, Nelson Marlborough, NGOs/Community Agencies, Online Supervision, Otago, Personal Development, Practitioner, Professional, Reflective, Reflective Practice, Risk Management, Safe Practice, Social Service Profession, Solution Focussed Social Work, South Canterbury, Southland, Statutory Work, Strengths Based, Stress Management, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Tai Tokerau Northland, Tairawhiti Gisborne, Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, Taranaki, Task Centred, Taupo, Waikato, Wellington Wairarapa, West Coast, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness, Worker Safety & Boundaries, Workplace Organisational & Team Dynamics, Youth Work
In supervision I encourage reflective practice to explore ethical, boundary and practice issues whether the supervisee is young in their career or well established.
Choosing a new supervisor can be difficult, I’m happy to meet and discuss what supervision might look like over a coffee with no obligation to continue.
Areas of experience and interest:
-Mental Health
-Community and residential work
-Leadership and managing teams
-Faith based NGO’s
-Working with refugees
-Trauma informed care
-Peer supervision
-Social services working in the education sector
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Adults, Advanced Social Work Methods (e.g. Resistant Clients/Addictions/FV), Canterbury Otautahi, Casework, Clinical, Clinical Practice Issues, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Collaborative Approach, Crisis Management, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Ethical Practice, External, Fieldwork, Fieldwork (student), Find a Supervisor, Management & leadership, Mental health, Migrant Refugee Communities, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Strategies, NGOs/Community Agencies, Personal Development, Professional, Reflective, Reflective Practice, Safe Practice, School, Social Service Profession, Solution Focussed Social Work, Strengths Based, Stress Management, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Trauma Grief Loss, Trauma Therapy, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness, Working with Wairua & Spiritual Elements, Workplace Organisational & Team Dynamics, Youth Work
My specific issues are in the field of Mental Health, Addiction and Trauma Informed Practice. I am presently providing workshops for the Mental Health Education and Resource Center (MHERC) in Trauma Informed Practice and Self Care & Professionalism in the social and health sector. I have the capacity to work with groups, peers and clinical staff and use reflective and trauma informed practice models of support and models.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Addictions, Adults, Board/Committee Governance - planning & management, Canterbury Otautahi, Casework, Clinical, Clinical Practice Issues, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Community Development, Continuing Professional Development, Crisis Management, Cross Discipline, Disability, Evidence Based Practice, External, Family Focussed, Find a Supervisor, Group, Health & Disability, Management & leadership, Mental health, Mentoring, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Strategies, Motivational interviewing, NGOs/Community Agencies, Occupational Health & Safety, Online Supervision, Peer, Personal Development, Professional, Project management, Reflective, Reflective Practice, Reflexive Practice, Safe Practice, Social Policy, Social Service Profession, Solution Focussed Social Work, Strengths Based, Stress Management, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Trauma Grief Loss, Trauma Therapy, Voluntary Sector, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness, Worker Safety & Boundaries, Workplace Organisational & Team Dynamics
General structured supervision
Professional development and learning
Personal well-being and stress management
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