Professional Clinical Supervision and training
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Supervision is a working alliance between two professionals where the supervisees offer an account of their work, reflect on it, receive feedback and receive guidance if appropriate. The object of this alliance is to enable the worker to gain in ethical competency, confidence and creativity so as to give the best possible service to clients”. (Inskipp and Proctor , 2001) |
Supervision is a career long necessity for a clinician's professional development, reflective practice, to maintain professional ethics and to provide a quality service.
It comes with being human to have blind spots, to have our emotions triggered and for this to affect our behaviour. That is often why people seek therapy, to get help with seeing and doing things differently. Likewise, therapists can get stuck when working with their clients which is why regular supervision is so important.
This is particularly so for therapists who work with relationships and more than one person in the room. The power of strong emotions and behavioural patterns between people in a family system can be very challenging for the therapist. It has been conceptualised that when a therapist begins work with a family, a family/ therapist system forms. It is not uncommon for difficulties in a family system to be replicated in the family/ therapist system, which in tern, can be replicated in the family/ therapist/ supervisor system. This multi-systemic analysis highlights the complexity of human systems and the rigorous thinking the field of family therapy is renowned for. As a supervisor, I also attend supervision of supervision with a senior family therapist to maintain best practice standards.
As an accredited supervisor of the Australian Association of Family Therapy, I support mental health professionals training to become clinical family therapists and meeting the requirements for clinical membership, and also provide clinical supervision to professionals wanting to develop skills when working with complex families and in systemic family therapy formulation and intervention.
Since 2015 I have been providing Systemic Family Therapy supervision / training / consultation. I have been contracted by various agencies:
- The Child and Family Counselling Team of Catholic Care Northern Territory
- The Child and Family Counselling Team from NSW Community Health, Goonellabah.
- The Youth and Family Mental Health Teams from the NSW Health, Northern NSW Local Health District
- Primary and secondary School Counselling Team of the Catholic Schools Office - Diocese of Lismore
These services are also available via Skype or video conference.
Please contact me to discuss your supervision needs.
It comes with being human to have blind spots, to have our emotions triggered and for this to affect our behaviour. That is often why people seek therapy, to get help with seeing and doing things differently. Likewise, therapists can get stuck when working with their clients which is why regular supervision is so important.
This is particularly so for therapists who work with relationships and more than one person in the room. The power of strong emotions and behavioural patterns between people in a family system can be very challenging for the therapist. It has been conceptualised that when a therapist begins work with a family, a family/ therapist system forms. It is not uncommon for difficulties in a family system to be replicated in the family/ therapist system, which in tern, can be replicated in the family/ therapist/ supervisor system. This multi-systemic analysis highlights the complexity of human systems and the rigorous thinking the field of family therapy is renowned for. As a supervisor, I also attend supervision of supervision with a senior family therapist to maintain best practice standards.
As an accredited supervisor of the Australian Association of Family Therapy, I support mental health professionals training to become clinical family therapists and meeting the requirements for clinical membership, and also provide clinical supervision to professionals wanting to develop skills when working with complex families and in systemic family therapy formulation and intervention.
Since 2015 I have been providing Systemic Family Therapy supervision / training / consultation. I have been contracted by various agencies:
- The Child and Family Counselling Team of Catholic Care Northern Territory
- The Child and Family Counselling Team from NSW Community Health, Goonellabah.
- The Youth and Family Mental Health Teams from the NSW Health, Northern NSW Local Health District
- Primary and secondary School Counselling Team of the Catholic Schools Office - Diocese of Lismore
These services are also available via Skype or video conference.
Please contact me to discuss your supervision needs.
Steve Marriott provides counselling and psychotherapy services to individuals, couples, families, children and adolescents who live in the Northern Rivers of NSW, or online.
