Lucy O'Hanlon
About me
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.
My experience
13 years clinical experience including:
- inpatient units (youth and adult)
- CCU (Community Care Unit)
- PARC (Prevention and Recovery Care Unit)
- Clinical Case Management
- Complex Needs Care Coordination
- NDIS Psychosocial OT - Functional capacity assessments, SDA/SIL assessments, goal oriented OT work
- Sensory assessment and intervention support
- Supervision of OT's and OT students for over a decade
My training
Bachelor of Occupational Therapy - Monash University (2010)
Lifelong professional development events pertaining to personality disorders.
Lifelong professional development events pertaining to quality clinical supervision.
My approach to supervision
I value fostering a psychologically safe relationship and environment as this is required to support supervisees to be open, honest and vulnerable. This is what leads to effective reflection, action planning and overall professional growth and development.
I am structured in my approach whereby I support supervisees to critically reflect on the factors contributing to their clinical scenarios both from a client perspective and the overall service system the OT is working within.
Supervision with me also always contains a wellbeing/self-care/sustainable practice focus, whereby the supervisee is supported to reflect on the impact of their work on them and to develop sustainable and safe work practices.