Meet your professional development requirements & enhance your practice skills
We offer supportive and evidence-based clinical supervision services to practitioners working within counselling, psychotherapy, teaching, social work and community/youth work in North Brisbane, QLD
Our approach
Supervision as a Developmental Process
Supervision exists for three reasons:
- To protect clients
- To improve the ability of practitioners to provide value to their clients, and
- To monitor the self-care of the practitioner.
Effective supervision is both supportive and challenging. The supervisee grows both professionally and personally. Supervision helps practitioners increase awareness of their practice, and can therefore be a protective factor against vicarious trauma.
Supervision is available for both trainee and experienced practitioners who are working within counselling, psychotherapy, teaching, social work and community/youth work.
What is Professional Supervision?
Working under supervision means that a practitioner uses the services of another more experienced and qualified practitioner to support reflection in their work with clients.
Importantly, supervision considers both the ethical professional development, and the personal development of the practitioner.
Who needs Supervision?
All practitioners in ‘people helping’ roles, regardless of experience, need supervision. Supervision and mentoring assists the practitioner with the development of skills, meaning, personal health and professional growth.
Supervision as a supportive relationship
Meet Tanya Genito – Founder of Total Wellness Therapies, Mood In Mind – Psychotherapist, Mental Health Social Worker
Tanya is a Psychotherapist and Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with over 20 years experience providing counselling, psychology strategies and psychotherapy. Tanya has experience working across a diverse range of sectors including drug and alcohol, housing, community/youth, education and private practice.
Tanya is passionate about offering quality professional supervision and brings over 10 years experience providing supervision to a range of practitioners including social workers, counsellors, youth workers and community workers across the community, education and drug and alcohol sectors.
The quality of the relationship between the Supervisor and the Supervisee is an important, although complex, one. The elements that Tanya believes are necessary within supervision are:
- Warmth
- Trust
- Genuineness
- Ethical boundaries
- Confidentiality, and
- Respect
Within her private practice, Tanya’s area of specialisation is working with adults who have experienced relational trauma in their lives. With a breadth of experience working with issues such as grief and loss, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, substance abuse, anger management, and trauma, Tanya is experienced in a range of techniques including motor-sensori, CBT, mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, and neuro-psychotherapy. Tanya’s practice framework draws on relationship, humanistic and strength based perspectives.
Additionally, Tanya is experienced in and trained to Level 3 Gottman Method Relationship Counselling. She is experienced in working with traditional couples as well as non traditional, ENM and Poly and Kink relationships.
Supervision for Brisbane-Based Mental Health Practitioners
If you would like to speak with Tanya about professional supervision or mentoring, please reach out – we look forward to connecting with you.