Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers
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Through working together our goals and objectives will be achieved
I encourage a reflective practice and sound work processes including a strengths based approach working with core Social Work values to enhance the Social Workers practice and professionalism.
My approach is trauma informed, helping to identify the effect of this for the supervisee and client.
I also use mindfulness to ameliorate the effect of vicarious trauma.
I welcome the whole person, work and home life, your emotional, physical, relational, spiritual being. I encourage and strengthen your way of being.
People say that they feel accepted, free to talk, hear themselves think. Hopeful for what they could do, who they are. Engaged, learning new things by readings and podcasts they get. I’m on their side, I’m for them, I’m interested in what they can do.
I can do online, phone or face-to-face in the Bay of Plenty.
It is my passion to assist and empower social workers and care professionals to make the best decisions they can. Reigniting a love of what they do and navigating around and threw, any walls to that.
A particularly interest in promoting the utilization of therapeutic opportunities through the social Work role.
Encouraging self care for optimal outcomes as well as sustainability. Debunking the glorification of ‘busy’, through self monitoring and tools for boundaries.
Expertise in rapport building and working directly with children and youth in mental health, advocation, therapeutic and community roles.
Reflective practice and exploring where the professional and personal boundaries meet and cross, finding ways that each are complimented by the same journey, yet kept ‘safe’ from each other.
Working with team dynamics and managing complex situations.
Leadership and management development.
Managing work/personal life balance.
Child focused practice. Integrating theory and practice.
Not just culturally safe practice, but empowering through culturally encouraging and affirming practice, especially working cross culturally, with Maori.
Strengths-based and solution focused as an underlying thread throughout.
Pinehill, Northshore Auckland; Female; Face to Face only
BSW & MSW; Master Degree in Social Psychiatry that involved assessed components related to supervision; PhD in Social work education that included regular monthly external professional supervision as part of integrative method of teaching learning social work that was a focus of my research; Erica Stern’s IPR supervision process; John Heron’s Peer supervision; Teaching a postgraduate course with David Epston called Reflecting on Practice; within Master of Social Practice course; NZ Coaching and mentoring centre – organised and participated in the Peer Supervision course three times (in three different settings) and participated in peer supervision groups (still participating)
Strengths based; Integrative; IPR (Interpersonal Process Recall); Peer, individual and group supervision; Reflective teams; Managing challenging situations with grace and integirity; Exploring how personal, professional, political and spiritual are related and how they reflect in professional practice; Cultural respectfulness; Ethical dilemmas
Animal assisted work and whole people learning including embodiment practice
My experience and interests are providing professional supervision for people working in adult services including mental health, addictions and physical health.
I provide a safe, supportive, reflective approach encouraging people to raise to the challenge of being the best social worker they can be.
I am keen to work with people of any gender, race, religion or ability. My main interest is to support and empower men to create positive change for themselves and those around them. I strongly encourage male involvement in the social service industry and I enjoy accessing opportunities to enhance clients’ non-oppressive leadership capabilities. I work collaboratively using client centred, strengths based, reflective and solutions focussed methods to disentangle and analyse issues and create effective solutions. I am available for in-person or on-line individual sessions.
» Read moreI use both my Social Work training and my Psychotherapy experience to provide clinical supervision. I enjoy supporting supervisees to reflect on their practice, learn and grow in their clinical work. I have lived experience of having a disability as I am blind and use a guide dog. This adds another perspective to the way in which I work with people.
I invite people to contact me and meet up in order to get a sense of how I work and whether you think this would enhance your practice.
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.
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
» Read more14 years social work experience in care and protection, school social work, child and adolescent mental health, and foster care. I am very passionate about the social work as a profession and have also provided field work education to a number of social work students. As professional supervisor my aim is to provide a supervision space where supervisees can feel safe and supported to share and learn from their practice through reflection on practice. The supervision relationship is a joint venture that provides a learning journey for both supervisor and supervisee.
Reflective and strength based practice to support and empower social workers and care professionals to provide the best outcome for their clients.