Kia ora
I am passionate about supporting practitioners to achieve best practice within their mahi, as well as managing personal well being and encouraging professional growth.
I facilitate a reflective learning process that empowers practitioners to explore issues from various perspectives and make the best decisions they can. I also incorporate strengths-based and solution-focused approaches to build resilience, assist problem solving and achieve desired outcomes.
I have a particular interest in child focused practice – ensuring voices of tamariki are heard and their rights are upheld.
I am able to provide face to face and online (zoom) supervision.
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Advocacy in Social Work, Best Practice, Care and Protection, Child Abuse Detection and Prevention, Clinical, Clinical Practice Issues, Continuing Professional Development, Cross Discipline, Ecological Model, Evidence Based Practice, External, Family Focussed, Fieldwork (student), Find a Supervisor, Neuro-Sequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT), NGOs/Community Agencies, Online Supervision, Practitioner, Proctor’s "Three Key Functions" of supervisio, Professional, Reflective, Reflective Practice, Safe Practice, Social Service Profession, Solution Focussed Social Work, Solution Focussed Therapy, Strengths Based, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Tai Tokerau Northland, Task Centred, Theoretical Perspectives, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness, Worker Safety & Boundaries
I contextualize supervision as a conscious and thoughtful experience, one that is imbedded in a cultural context exploring theories of social and cultural differences. Focusing on mentorship, leadership, cultural humility and mutual learning through the process of creativity , supervision can become the platform to explore the complex issues that social workers face such as
Race, class, gender, sexuality and disability intersect.
There’s no human endeavour that can’t be improved with a little creativity, and social work is no exception. While social workers can draw upon any number of talking therapy and talking supervision, there are times when talk isn’t helpful or can’t be summoned.
As an Arts Therapist and Social worker I a hold full conviction that creativity and arts can open a back door to the psyche, soul and body. Allowing Supervisees to draw from that which they cannot be put into words, thus catalysing subsequent therapeutic conversations, and self exploration.
We will explore supervision in a way which involves the multifaceted ways of communicating, This can aid the process of connecting implicit traumas of the self into explicit knowledge , thus informing our social work practice by exploring the multilayers of trauma that social workers can experience as a result of our own and that of the work we engage and our clients traumas. In and become exposed.
Creative arts therapies Social Work Supervision can involve the use of the arts—visual art, music, dance and movement, drama, and poetry.
I am available to do online supervision- tele health. Spanish and English speaker
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I operate within a number of theoretical and practice orientated frameworks including strengths and a relational approach.
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Advocacy in Social Work, Care and Protection, Casework, Clinical, Clinical Practice Issues, Conflict Resolution, Continuing Professional Development, Disability, Ecological Model, Ethical Practice, External, Find a Supervisor, Group, Health & Disability, Justice, Online Supervision, Otago, Peer, Professional, Reflective Practice, Relational Approach, School, Social Service Profession, Solution Focussed Social Work, Solution Focussed Therapy, South Canterbury, Southland, Statutory Work, Strengths Based, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Task Centred, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Theoretical Perspectives, Trauma Grief Loss, Voluntary Sector, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness, Youth Work
I strive to provide a space so supervisees can reflect on their practice, processes, challenges, insights, struggles, achievements and learnings when managing complex cases. Empowering and facilitating best practice so supervisees can be prepared to make the best decisions in their field of practice in relation to risk and safe practice. Encouraging work/life balance.
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I offer a reflective and supportive service, where I bring strong interpersonal skills. I hold value to listening with intent to understand, providing empathy and guidance to facilitate growth in professional practice and personal well-being. I use Davys and Beddoe’s (2010) Reflective Learning Model of supervision as my primary approach to support reflexive practice.
I provide an organic therapeutic approach, which is open and honest, driven by the learner, facilitated by myself as the supervisor; to support professional resilience, help to define new ways forward in your mahi and to enhance effectiveness as a social worker. I offer support to understand application of theory to practice, ensure accountability in terms of adhering to ethical and safe practices, support to nourish well-being and plan professional development pathways.
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Advocacy in Social Work, Best Practice, Clinical, Ecological Model, External, Facilitative Approach, Fieldwork (student), Find a Supervisor, Health & Disability, Migrant Refugee Communities, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Strategies, NGOs/Community Agencies, Online Supervision, Professional, Reflective, Reflexive Practice, Solution Focussed Social Work, Strengths Based, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Tai Tokerau Northland, Trauma Grief Loss, Trauma Therapy, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness
I 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.
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Adults, Advocacy in Social Work, Casework, Clinical, Clinical Practice Issues, Collaborative Approach, Conflict Resolution, Continuing Professional Development, Counselling, Couple Therapy, Disability, Ethical Practice, External, Family Focussed, Find a Supervisor, Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPPT), Marginalised Groups, Mindfulness, Online Supervision, Otago, Personal Development, Reflective, Reflective Practice, Relational Approach, Safe Practice, Stress Management, Supervisor, Supervisors Listing, Women's Issues, Work/Personal Life Balance/Wellness, Worker Safety & Boundaries, Workplace Organisational & Team Dynamics
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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I assist practitioners to develop their self-care techniques that they utilize during their work to ensure they are ready and able to perform their duties to their highest standard at all times.
I provide both ongoing supervision and annual self-care supervision for practitioners in the helping professions.
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