We need a place where a helper’s experiences can be thought about.
Professional Supervision for psychologists, social workers, counsellors, peer support workers, youth workers, community workers, and anyone in the helping profession.
Supervision can provide a space to pause and think about your work – not only in terms of what you are doing, but how you are experiencing it.
Supporting people in distress often brings up uncertainty, frustration, responsibility, and emotional strain. Having somewhere to reflect on this can make the work feel more sustainable, and at times, more meaningful.
Supervision may be clinical or non-clinical in focus.
For practitioners in advocacy, casework, or support roles, supervision may centre more on boundaries, role complexity, or navigating organisational demands while trying to remain responsive to the people you support.
For therapists, this might involve thinking together about therapeutic challenges, engagement, risk, or ethical tensions that arise in the work. It may also be focussed on technique and process or clinical formulations.
I also offer reflective supervision for teams and organisations, creating a space to think together about client work, team dynamics, cultural considerations, and the systems that shape service delivery.
What will supervision look like?
Supervision with me is a space to think carefully about the work. This may be one-on-one, or group based.
We will attend not only to the material you bring, but to process — what is unfolding in the relationship(s), what is being enacted, avoided, repeated, or defended against. We will think about the interaction of your role as the helper (transference and countertransference) within the material, not just as abstract concepts, and consider how your own subjectivity is inevitably present in the room.
I am interested in how our work is shaped by the broader world. That includes the social, political, and cultural forces that structure both your client’s life and your own. We may examine how power, migration, class, race, gender, organisational systems, and institutional pressures enter the world of your profession. This may sometimes be subtle pressures, sometimes forceful pressures.
What will we be doing?
- Attending to process issues and relational dynamics
- Working with transference and countertransference
- Developing and refining psychodynamic or psychoanalytic formulations
- Thinking through risk, enactments, impasses, and ruptures
- Applying psychoanalytic techniques and concepts
- Exploring group processes and group analytic ideas
- Reflecting on the emotional impact of the work
- Engaging with theory, including readings and media
What supervision don’t I do?
At this stage, I do not do:
- Board-approved supervision for provisional psychologists or those undertaking registrar programs
- Immigration, NDIS, or Workcover document review
- Neuropsychological assessments and reports
- Medico-legal assessments and reports
- Forensic assessments and reports
Contact me now to discuss your needs and hopes for supervision.
Kane Solly Psychology 