Professional Supervision & Coaching

Professional Supervision

You need a moment to pause in your busy week, you're feeling overwhelmed and you wish you could find the time to reflect on what you've done and reset where you want to go. Create the space to work better through regular supervision which celebrates your achievements, identifies dilemmas and creates a clear path for action every month.

Supervision can be used by all professions to develop ongoing awareness of and responsiveness to your practice environment. Supervision is increasingly used across legal, administrative and social services to proactively build a strong foundation for ongoing professional development. It ensures that ethics and best practice remain front of mind and is a gentle support to help you learn and grow from experience.

Areas of focus may include:

Your profession and career development
Space for reflection and personal development
Business development, strategic planning and sustainable growth
Team dynamics and interpersonal communication
Identifying change and opportunities
Emerging roles and new areas of practice
Maintaining your own wellness, preventing stress and burnout
Maintaining the wellbeing of your staff and their capacity for change
Debriefing incidents or interpersonal issues

Supervision Collective Aotearoa

I am a co-founder of this membership organisation for professional supervisors around New Zealand. It is a community of practice, where we meet and share resources and learnings, plus support each other in the growth of this important role. If you are interested please ask me about it or click here for more information.

Supervision is a process of in-depth reflection by practitioners on their work in order that they continue to learn from their experience and develop their skills.

Davys and Beddoe, 2021

Clinical Supervision

As a registered occupational therapist and trained clinical supervisor, I am able to support professions across the health sector to meet practice requirements. My expertise is in mental health, healthcare leadership and strategic change.

Having held the position of Professional Advisor at a large DHB and chair of the Occupational Therapy Board (the profession's regulator), I am aware of the range of issues which can present, from new graduate to experienced staff. I have supervised a variety of specialties and professions for 20 years.

In addition to the above, areas of focus are:

Clinical or practice-based reflection
Client-focused outcomes
Code of ethics
Competency for registration requirements
Consideration of the changing wider health context and impact on your role

I think the most helpful thing for me over a difficult transition and leadership period was having someone to talk to. Medical professionals are not taught leadership or management skills and mentoring on these topics fit the bill for me.

Anna – Lead Doctor

Working-Well Coaching

As a trained coach, I will help you to develop and work towards specific personal goals and achieve your potential. You will learn about your motivators and values and how these can be used with your existing strengths to overcome perceived challenges.

My approach follows a structured series of sessions based on your individual needs. This structure enables you to look at where you have come from, what the current reality is and where you would like to be in the future (your goal).

Working-Well Coaching is time limited to focus on goal achievement and produce results, specifically in the workplace.

Instead of asking yourself 'Who do I want to become?', ask 'Which of my various possible selves should I start to explore now?'

Herminia Ibarra

Personal Coaching

What does the life you want to live look like?

How will you know when you’ve got there?

Personal coaching is ideal for:

Taking stock of where you are and setting a new direction
Contemplating a change of career
Working on personal development goals such as communication or personal fitness
Preparing for or adjusting to a return to the workforce following parental leave
Finding that creative spark and actually following it through
Surprising friends and family with a new achievement or skill
Taking the time to discover the meaning and purpose in your own life

We have been told changing career direction is dangerous, or see peers finishing a career when we are just beginning a new one. But we have been busy accumulating life and leadership experience. This unique advantage is not a liability. It takes time to develop personal and professional range.

David Epstein - Range

Accountability Coaching

You already know what you need to do, so why can't you just do it?

When people first became self-employed, we often think: being my own boss is going to be great! (and it is!). We have the technical skill and the passion to make it work BUT we don't realise the impact that only being accountable to ourselves can have on our productivity.

Without someone externally holding me to account, all those ideas which I looked forward to working on in my own time suddenly seemed less urgent. Perhaps you've found the same thing?

Accountability coaching isn't a different type of coaching, but an approach that can used inside the various sessions I already offer, or as a short-term boost to productivity.

I will commit to: