Clinical supervision is an essential component of reflective practice for human services workers. It supports ongoing health and wellbeing, deepens professional competence, and helps practitioners navigate the considerable challenges of working in the mental health and alcohol and drug sectors.
PsychMaps offers clinical supervision grounded in over 25 years of experience across frontline clinical work, senior management, and the mentoring of practitioners at every career stage.
Supervision for Practitioners
For clinicians and frontline workers, supervision can focus on:
- Sustaining health and wellbeing in and outside the workplace
- The art of assessment and clinical formulation
- Building rapport and the therapeutic alliance
- Treatment planning and reviewing progress
- Using psychometric tools effectively
- Working with trauma and developmental factors affecting clients
- Relapse prevention
- The role of personality and attachment in longer-term substance use and mental health concerns
- Managing therapy-interrupting behaviours
- Transference and countertransference
- Navigating difficult workplace relationships
Supervision for Managers
For human services managers, supervision can address:
- Balancing performance management with mentoring
- The transition from clinician to team leader
- Managing a client load alongside managerial responsibilities
- Project management challenges
- Building the capacity of clinical teams to respond to complex presentations
Who We Supervise
PsychMaps provides supervision to psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, nurses, case managers, care coordinators, intake officers, group facilitators, health promotion workers, managers, and support workers.
Services We Have Supported
PsychMaps has provided clinical supervision to staff of services including:
- Knox Social and Community Health Service
- Eastern Area Community Health Service
- Stepping Up Consortium
- Plenty Valley Community Health Service
- Wurli-Wurlinjang Health Service
- Nursing and Midwifery Health Program
- Outstation North
- Defence Indigenous Development Program
- Queensland Injectors Health Network
Frameworks We Draw On
Supervision can be tailored to each practitioner’s preferred frameworks. PsychMaps commonly draws on:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Schema Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Somatic and body-based approaches
- Interpersonal Neurobiology and Attachment Theory
Location and Telehealth
Supervision is available in person at 165-167 Drummond St, Carlton VIC 3053. Telehealth supervision via Zoom or phone is also available, including for practitioners and services located outside Melbourne.
How to Get Started
Please email PsychMaps or call 0401 431 931 to discuss your supervision needs.