Allied Health Clinical Supervisor Database

Hey I'm Abby (They/Them) I identify as agender or gender diverse. I have a lived experience as Queer & Neurodivergent & have experienced Anxiety, Panic Attacks & PMDD (Oophorectomy & hysterectomy) & the incremental trauma associated with being part of minority groups. I value authenticity, transparency, empathy, freedom creative expression, a sense of humour & loyalty. I have a strong sense of justice & am an advocate for human rights, equality & better health outcomes for FNP, Trans & Gender Diverse, Homeless, LGBTQIA+ Mental Health Communities. I am passionate about Interoception- Felt Safety , Sensory Modulation & creating Safe Sensory Environments. I love live music & aerobics, dogs, travelling, the Desert & being in nature, bright colours & creative projects & laughing with my friends.

I am a Registered Music Therapist clinician in the greater Melbourne suburbs. Since 2006, when I delivered a paper on the importance of professional supervision at the AMTA National Conference, I have engaged in my own supervision. My interest led to supervision certification and now providing clinical supervision.

I have over twenty five years experience in a variety of social welfare and health agencies as a Project Worker, Clinician and Manager, both here and in the UK . I have a particular interest in Social Work Education, Supervision & Training with a focus on Cross Cultural and Intersectional work. I am an active member of the AASW as a member of the Victorian CPD committee and for several years convening the VMHSW (Victorian Mental Health Social Workers Practice Group). Last year I was on the Working group reviewing The AASW Practice Standards & have previously served on the Board of Studies at Monash University Social Work Course. I have until recently been an active member of both The Victorian Mental Health Interprofessional Leadership Network and the Moreland Reconciliation Working Group.

Passionate and skilled social worker who always thrives to update his own knowledge and skills while helping others to grow emotionally and professionally

22 years experience as a social worker In community services industry for over 30 years Passionate about many aspects but in particular, womens health, family violence- esp the perpetrator space, crisis support and management.

My name is Clare and I am a qualified mental health social worker based in Melbourne, my pronouns are she/her. I have twenty eight years experience as a mental health social worker, having worked in a variety of settings in Australia and in Glasgow, Scotland. I am very passionate about the important role social workers play in the mental health service system and keen to promote strengths based, human rights and social justice based practice. I am an AASW member and have completed individual and group supervision training facilitated via the Bouverie Centre, with Jane Wexler and Dr Fiona Gardener from La Trobe University. I believe supervision is an essential component of excellent social work practice. I draw upon single session thinking to support supervisees to make the most of the time we have together.

I have over 35 years' experience as a senior social worker/leader working in public mental health settings. I have spent over 20 years managing a team and providing individual and group supervision.

I am a registered and Mental Health Endorsed Occupational Therapist, working since 2010 and have experience in public mental health, community health, and private mental health. I am passionate about meeting people where they are at and supporting them to progress towards their goals in an agreed approach that maintains safety and a positive regard for the person and their inner healer. I have specific interest in body-based approaches to therapy and have completed private studies in psychotherapy. I value personal and professional growth and life-long learning for myself and have been honoured to support other mental health clinicians with their professional supervision and development since 2016. I enjoy music, movement, and balcony gardening to support my own well-being and use free-association journaling to process my own elements of inflexible thinking and reveal my own mind.

I am a MH OT working in trauma using EMDR.

Highly experienced and skilled professional supervision of mental health practitioners, particularly Occupational Therapists. Based in South Australia where my clinical private practice is located, I work both in my clinic setting and online using my Zoom platform. Professional Supervision includes clinical skill development, guidance on professionalism, support for the development of your own practice profile, as well as mentoring and coaching for your bigger picture plans. With wide experience in various mental health clinical settings including my long standing private mental health practice, as well as extensive experience as a clinical supervisor manager and mentor for many professionals over the years, my strengths based and client (that is you!) focussed approach is collaborative, valued and helps guide your professional practice and plans into the future. Particular areas of my current clinical work: Medicare (anxiety, depression, PTSD, BPAD and other mental health conditions and adjustment disorders); NDIS sessional work with people with more severe complex and enduring mental health conditions; medicolegal functional capacity assessments for workcover, insurance matters, NDIS with a mental health lens. Clinical approach: combining OT approaches based in function and meaningful activity with CBT, more recent third wave practices such as ACT, CFT, MBCBT and also Narrative therapy. Current interest and training in DNA-V model.

I have been a mental health clinician for more than 35 years and in that time have supervised individuals from a range of professional backgrounds from students through to senior leaders in a variety of organisations. I am a strong advocate for the importance of good quality supervision and employ a variety of approaches depending on the individual needs of the supervisee.

I am an experienced Occupational Therapist working in both public mental health and private practice.

Hello! I'm an Occupational Therapist and mental health worker, coordinator, trainer. I have worked in Area Mental Health and Wellbeing Services, Alcohol and Other Drugs, and Non-clinical Mental Health roles with a wide range of ages from young people to older adults (primarily 15+; no or very limited CAMHS experience). I am passionate about inclusion, choice and human rights. I have experience and interests in Motivational Interviewing, Dual Diagnosis / Integrated Care, and am open to supervising across Allied Health disciplines. I have had roles in service development, consultation and workforce development and cross-service initiatives.

I have worked within the community mental health sector for over 15 years. During this time I have worked in roles providing direct MH practice, project management, and leadership positions within community, clinical and NDIS programs. Recently, I have started my own private practice 'Occupational Therapy In Mind' providing OT support and supervision/coaching. Outside of work I enjoy time with my young family, connecting with friends and getting out of the city to the beach/country!

A dedicated psychotherapist and accredited mental health social worker, with 20+ years’ experience in delivery of evidence-based therapeutic interventions, clinical supervision, and operational leadership roles within mental health and education. I have a particular interest in working with infants, children, adolescents and their families and am trauma-informed and client centered in my approach. I have training and experience in a range of therapies including EMDR, FBT, CBT and CBT-E, DBT, COS, Narrative, Schema and Strengths and Solution-focused models. I have also completed post-graduate health management studies and Brene Brown's 'Dare to Lead' and current Masters studies in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. I have lived and worked in indigenous communities and am passionate about working with LGBTI+ clients.

My career as an Occupational Therapist started over 20 years ago in New Zealand, I have subsequently worked in Australia and the U.K in an array of inpatient, community, private, government based and corporate health care settings. My current work includes expert witness medicolegal, focused psychological strategies, clinical education, and professional supervision. In addition to my work role, I am a mum to 2 energetic primary schoolers and a boisterous Labrador. I love getting out in nature, travel, connecting with others and getting creative in the garden or with the occasional upcycling project. Being recovery orientated and supporting professional growth is at the heart of my practice where I value a curious approach, evidence informed clinical reasoning and time and space for reflection. My speciality interests and areas include trauma, substance use, disability, ethics in healthcare, workplace health and risk management, women’s health, psychological safety, and emerging interventions. I consider myself a lifelong learner am an endorsed mental health Occupational Therapist and have received pilot endorsement in Professional Supervision from OT Australia.

I am an experienced Exercise Physiologist working within the public mental health sector across various sites in Melbourne's Northern suburbs. I have a background in diabetes care, as well as being an AEP, I am a Credentialed Diabetes Educator (CDE) and I enjoy combining my strong knowledge of chronic disease management with my health and behaviour change skills to create positive change for the cohort we are working with.

I am an Accredited Exercise Physiologist (AEP) and have been practising since 2009. I have extensive industry experience in a range of settings including academic, private hospital, public health, and private practice.

I am an accredited mental health social worker (AMHSW) who has worked within hospital settings, area mental health, community mental health services, and private practice. With 8 years of experience in the field, I have developed expertise in a range of mental health presentations within individuals, as well as interpersonal concerns of couples and families.

I am a passionate occupational therapist, believe strongly about excellent and accessible mental health care for people in our community. I am also dedicated to supporting the building, learning and development of the occupational therapy workforce.

Hi, I'm Kristen from Thriving OT & the Trauma Informed Care OT. I am a passionate advocate for mental wellbeing, perinatal health, family mental health, mindfulness, yoga, and evidence-based practice. I also have lived experience as a carer of family members with physical and mental health difficulties. I'm a registered occupational therapist & endorsed mental health clinician with over 17 years experience, a trauma informed yoga therapist, mindfulness & self-compassion teacher, university educator, trauma informed supervisor, coach & Mum.

I have been a social worker for over 25 years and a clinical family therapist for over 10 years. I have a wide breadth of experience working with children, young people and their families in areas including child protection Federal Circuit Court of Australia, Non government agencies and for the last few years as the family therapy lead at ELMHS/ Youth Monash Health.

I have been fortunate to benefit from clinical supervision for all my career, initially in my first OT role in a psychiatric inpatient unit for children; a long time ago now where we wrote up child psychotherapy sessions verbatim and presented in group with a child psychoanalyst. I graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Gestalt Therapy in 2001 adding to my approach in clinical work and supervision: client led dialogue, relationship and awareness. With experience as a supervisee, I consistently offered supervision, completing formal education with the Melbourne University Centre for Psychiatric Nursing Research and Practice in 2004. I am passionate about clinical supervision and recognise the value to all clinicians. I continue to advocate for the embedding of clinical supervision in all health practice. I participated in the state-wide expert Advisory Group on clinical supervision from 2013-2014; preceding the Victorian Allied Health Clinical Supervision Framework. I attend Balint supervision, a method where accredited facilitators utilise a structured approach in a group setting. The Balint approach is person centred, imagining and working with the experiences and feelings of all involved. My style is to work with the Supervisee’s agenda, co-creating the focus during our time together and utilising a reflective practice style with a focus on support, education and practising effectively in organisational and professional settings.

I am a passionate mental health OT who has spent my entire 13 year career working in various clinical settings, supporting clients recovery, regardless of their age, personal circumstances or complexity. I have a particular interest and experience supporting clients with multiple and complex needs, from a personal perspective or from the service system perspective. I particularly enjoy working with clients who live with personality disorders and those who live with psychotic illnesses. I am also extremely passionate about developing the professional and personal capacity of the OT mental health workforce in order for them to deliver high quality, sustainable services to mental health care consumers.

I am an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AMHSW) with over 18 years of experience working within the mental health sector. I currently work within both private practice and forensic mental health services (Forensicare). I specialise in the fields of trauma, forensic mental health, risk assessment, suicide & self-harm prevention & the provision of SW supervision and clinical training.

I am an Accredited Social Worker (AASW) and the Founder and Director of Lived Experience Solutions (LEXs), based in Perth and providing online supervision to social workers and allied health practitioners across Australia. My supervision is reflective, external, professional, and culturally responsive, shaped around the realities of complex human service work. AASW Accreditation is a credential held by social workers who meet the Association's standards for qualifications, supervised experience, and ongoing professional development. Maintaining it means I am bound by the AASW Code of Ethics and Practice Standards, and that I undertake continuing professional development and my own professional supervision each year. I hold myself to the same expectations of reflective practice and accountability that I bring to supervising others. My practice is grounded in lived and living experience, as a long-term family carer, a migrant from a multicultural background, and someone bereaved by suicide. That grounding informs how I hold supervision: as a space where culture, identity, power, and use of self can be reflected on honestly, without being treated as separate from the work.

I am an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with over 20 years of experience working in health, community and human services fields. This includes working in disability, youth justice, child protection and mental health. My clinical interests are working with young people in out of home care, trauma, perinatal mental health and gentle parenting.

I have worked as a Mental Health Social Worker in Public Mental Health Services since 1997 in both clinician, senior clinician, Team leader and clinical educator roles. Most of my roles have been in community settings. I have supervised clinical staff whilst in these roles. My roles have largely been specialist roles in the areas of transcultural psychiatry, adult, youth, complex care and now education. I am currently employed as the statewide mental health social work educator and feel passionate about supporting social workers professional development and work with consumers and families. My areas of interest range from transcultural mental health, adult, youth, complex needs, family work and clinical education.

I have been an allied health professional and supervisor for over 20 years. Originally trained as a music therapist in the late 90s, I have worked clinically in several areas, including neurorehab, adult & child disability, paediatric hospital and general and forensic mental health. I developed a clinical interest in mental health in the mid 2000s, and subsequently studied for a Masters of Mental Health. As a graduate student studying music therapy, I realised that supervision was something extremely important and valuable to allied health professionals, and so I have pursued my interests in both supervision and mental health throughout my career. My professional interests include interdisciplinary supervision, mental health support for professionals, and training for supervisors. The values that underpin my work in supervision and professional development are integrity, authenticity and collaboration. My practice is ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability and neurominority affirming. Every effort is made to understand supervisees as individuals, accommodate their needs and be a good ally.

I am Patrycja (Patricia) Toczek, a qualified accredited Mental Health Social Worker with 15 years’ experience in the clinical mental health field and trauma-orientated practise. I am a professional member of the Australian Association of Social Workers and Australian Association of Family Therapists. I have extensive clinical practice experience in public mental health and private mental health setting working with adults in different clinical settings with a diversity of clients and their families experiencing a variety of complex issues including: impact of mental illness, co-existence of other co-morbidities including: drug & alcohol, disability, psycho-social and broader systemic issues.

Hi, I’m Rachel! I'm an Occupational Therapist with around 20 years’ experience in mental health practice. Over the years I’ve worked in senior clinical roles within youth or adult area mental health services, in private practice, and in university teaching. I’m a co-founder of The Social Confidence Collective in Melbourne, where I support young people aged 15–25 through individual mental health and OT support, therapeutic groups, and where I also provide training, supervision and consultation to professionals.

I am a passionate occupational therapist and clinical educator who, since 2006, has worked in a diverse range of educator, leadership, clinical and project worker roles in a variety of adult mental health services and state-wide workforce development settings. I am driven my an unwavering dedication to enhancing mental health care and a commitment to support the development of the mental health workforce through quality supervision and education. I am a mum to two active young boys and dozens of plant babies, my interests include environmental sustainability and design, and my recreational pursuits include music, eating out, going to the gym and spending time in and near water.

I’m an occupation-centred occupational therapist with a strong passion for inclusive practice. I support fellow OTs to grow in confidence, stay true to themselves, and strengthen their clinical skills through thoughtful, reflective supervision. My approach is grounded in narrative clinical reasoning and open, non-prescriptive exploration—where supervision feels organic, not formulaic. With a PhD in social inclusion, I proudly work as a 'pracademic'—bringing academic insight into real-world, evidence-informed practice. At the heart of my work are values that matter deeply to me: respect, empathy, integrity, and authenticity. I believe in genuine partnership, and I’m committed to walking alongside others with curiosity, humility, and purpose.

I am a registered and endorsed Mental Health Occupational Therapist, practicing since 2013 across the public and private sectors. Working predominantly with neurodivergent teens and adults, I value meeting clients and their families where they are, and supporting them to build ways of living that enhance their quality of life. I am passionate about working holistically with my clients and their support networks in a manner that is affirming and champions a person's self-determination. I am also currently a passionate supervisor of occupational therapists both internally and externally across a breadth of experience. I bring my lived experience as a parent, caregiver, and member of the LGBTQIA+ community to all areas of my clinical and operational practice. Outside of work, I enjoy creative pursuits such as reading and knitting, and spending time with family and friends (particularly where board games are involved!) I am forever adding new hobbies to my list of interests, and enjoy the process of lifelong learning in all areas.

I am an experienced Mental Health Occupational Therapist who has worked in clinical practice for the past 8 years. Mental health for me was where I feel most comfortable and found a place where I could develop my clinical skills and my identity through my work in this area. Supervision now has become an area I am passionate about and motivated to create better experiences for supervisees.

Hi there! My name is Sonya (she/her) and I am an occupational therapist who has worked in mental health since 2007. I am a senior occupational therapist and co-director at The Social Confidence Collective . I also teach prospective OTs within mental health subjects at ACU in Melbourne. I really value connecting with OTs and workers from other disciplines. My areas for interest include youth mental health (which I have worked in since 2009) both individually and in groups, how to work in more neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed and culturally responsive ways. I feel comfortable working with workers in clinical settings, as well as those who work in schools and other educational settings, youth organisations and other community organisations. I have experience supervising OTs, as well as psychologists, music therapists, social workers, housing workers, youth workers and counsellors. I blend theory and practice together in a reflective way, and I always place you, the supervisee, as the expert. Supervisees have let me know that they enjoy working me. I know what it's like working while being a parent, and especially value working with supervisees who grapple with the various life roles they have, to also still show up as the best versions of themselves at work.

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Clinical Supervisor and Bilingual Psychotherapist, I am particularly interested in providing supervision to Mental Health Professionals who identify as people of color. I am also interested in supporting Social Workers to apply for their Mental Health Accreditation.

I am a music therapist clinician and supervisor with long experience working across several areas in mental health in Victoria.