Clinical Practice & Psychology Supervision

I do not want supervision to feel like you are sitting across from an authority figure trying to prove you are competent. I am not better than you. I have just been doing this longer and have more experience in a few areas.

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You are also paying me, so I work for you. My job is to make sure you get value for money, leave the session feeling clearer and feel confident about what you are doing next.

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You should be able to tell me that you have no idea what to do, that you made a mistake, that you dislike a client or that an intervention went nowhere. If you fail one of your AHPRA hurdles, I see that partly as my failure too. My job is to help you get over the line and feel confident doing it.

The presentations I commonly work with include:

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anxiety, depression, stress, low self-esteem, trauma, ADHD, burnout, grief, anger, relationship and sexual issues, work and life dissatisfaction, other neurodivergent concerns, schizophrenia, compulsive behaviours, bipolar disorder and psychosis.

I run my own private practice and have worked across Medicare, NDIS, WorkCover and private clients. I have worked in larger practices like Blokes Psychology, hired rooms from other clinicians and now work from home, so I have seen a few different ways of doing it.

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We can talk about fees, referrals, cancellations, reports, GP communication, boundaries and difficult clients, but I can also show you the actual systems and processes I use. I have run webinars on everything from how to do your first session through to setting up your own private practice, so you do not have to work all of it out from scratch.

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My work is underpinned by Buddhist psychology, which was also the focus of my PhD. That does not mean I am trying to make clients Buddhist or that every session involves meditation. It gives me a broader framework for understanding suffering, habits, attention, avoidance, attachment and why people keep getting caught in the same patterns.

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I also draw from CBT, ACT, Schema Therapy, mindfulness-based approaches, client-centred therapy, couples work and family therapy. I see these as different tools that can sit within a broader understanding of the person, rather than competing models where you have to choose one.

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I see my clients as being on a level playing field with me. They are not there to passively receive “medicine” or one unit of CBT. I see our role as helping people think through problems they have not been able to solve on their own, because even kings need counsel.

Sometimes you have done the formulation, tried the obvious interventions and the client is still not moving. We can pull the case apart, work out what you might be missing and decide what to actually do next.

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I tend to see things a little differently from some psychologists. Part of that comes from my background in naturopathy and Buddhist psychology, and part of it probably comes from being dyslexic and naturally looking at problems from different angles.

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I tend to look at the whole person, notice connections and ask the questions that help shift how the problem is being understood. I am more interested in helping you think clearly than telling you which manual to follow.​

Supervision works best when you come with questions, cases or something you actually want to think through. You do not need to have everything organised perfectly, but it helps if you have thought about what would make the session useful.

 

I usually start by revisiting our last session. We look at what has happened since we last spoke, whether anything was actioned, and whether you have had any further thoughts about what we discussed. From there, we work through whatever feels most important that day.