Supervision-on-Supervision Group
Supervision is its own clinical and professional practice. We are responding to supervisee development, ethical practice, relational dynamics, professional identity, risk, boundaries, power and the quality of the supervisory relationship, and more.
This group provides a reflective space for supervisors to examine their supervision practice with other practitioners who hold similar responsibilities.
Reflective supervision for supervisors
Supervisors are often expected to provide clarity, support and professional judgement for others, while also holding the complexity of the work themselves.
A supervisee may bring questions about client risk, ethical uncertainty, therapeutic process, documentation, boundaries, workplace systems, confidence, shame, burnout or professional identity. The supervisor is then required to listen at several levels: to the client material, to the supervisee’s clinical thinking, to the supervisory relationship, and to the broader systems around the work.
Supervision-on-supervision offers a place to slow this down.
It supports supervisors to reflect on how they supervise, how they use authority, how they respond to uncertainty, how they manage difficult dynamics and how they continue developing their own supervisory judgement.
What we may explore
Supervisory practice and identity
Reflecting on your approach to supervision, including your values, theoretical influences, strengths, limits, preferred style and ongoing development as a supervisor.
The supervisory relationship
Examining alliance, trust, rupture and repair, role clarity, contracting, expectations, boundaries and the relational dynamics that shape the supervision space.
Power, authority and responsibility
Considering how power operates in supervision, including how supervisors give feedback, hold limits, support autonomy, address concerns and use authority ethically.
Clinical and ethical consultation
Thinking through complex client material, ethical dilemmas, risk, documentation, scope of practice, referrals, confidentiality and professional decision-making.
Supervisee development
Reflecting on supervisees’ different stages of development, including confidence, dependence, autonomy, skill consolidation, defensiveness, avoidance, over-responsibility and professional identity formation.
Parallel process and use of self
Noticing how client dynamics, supervisee dynamics and supervisory dynamics may echo one another. This may include reflecting on the supervisor’s emotional responses, assumptions, blind spots and invitations into particular roles.
Feedback and difficult conversations
Exploring how to provide feedback that is clear, respectful and useful, including how to raise concerns about practice, boundaries, ethics, risk or professional conduct.
Systems and context
Considering the broader systems around supervision, including agencies, private practice, EAP work, universities, regulatory expectations, organisational culture and professional standards.
Sustainability as a supervisor
Reflecting on the emotional and professional demands of supervision, including responsibility, isolation, complexity, vicarious load and the need for ongoing reflective support.
Why group supervision?
Supervisors often hold significant responsibility while having limited spaces to reflect on their own supervisory practice.
A small supervision-on-supervision group offers the benefit of collegial consultation, shared reflection and exposure to different supervisory perspectives. It provides a structured space to consider not only what is happening in the client work, but what is happening in the supervision itself.
The aim is to support ethical, reflective and relationally attuned supervision practice.
Facilitated by experienced supervisors
The group is facilitated by experienced supervisors with backgrounds in counselling, clinical supervision, trauma-informed practice, reflective supervision and professional education.
It is a space for supervisors who want to keep thinking carefully about the responsibility, influence and relational depth of the supervisory role.
Who this group is for
This group may suit you if you are a counsellor, psychotherapist or allied practitioner providing supervision and would value consultation around:
supervisory identity and practice
ethical and clinical decision-making
supervisee development
feedback and difficult conversations
risk, documentation and scope of practice
power, authority and boundaries
rupture and repair in supervision
parallel process and use of self
systems influencing the work
sustainability in the supervisor role
The group is suitable for supervisors working in private practice, agencies, schools, community services, EAP settings, universities and other professional contexts.
Format
Online small-group supervision
4 x 90-minute sessions
Capped at 6 participants
For supervisors across Australia
Fee
$399 per person for a block of 4 x 90-minute sessions, including GST (equivalent to $66.50 per hour)
Dates
TBA
We are currently finalising the supervisor and schedule for this specialist supervision group. Expressions of interest are now open, with the first group expected to commence in October 2026. Register your interest and we'll let you know as soon as dates and the facilitator are confirmed.