Blog Archive
Types of Supervision: Clinical Supervision for Counsellors
In the arena of Professional Supervision, I function in two types of supervision. Clinical Supervision and Pastoral Supervision. In this blog I’m going to briefly introduce clinical supervision. The term ‘Clinical Supervision’ refers to conducting professional supervision with practitioners who work in a clinical space. Generally, the term clinical refers to practitioners such as counsellors, […]
What is Professional Supervision?
Professional Supervision is a collaborative and professional relationship formed between supervisor and supervisee for the purposes of supporting the supervisee in their interactions with clients, families, students, parishioners or anyone they help in their work role. “Supervision is working with someone who is as interested and concerned about your life and work as you are.”- […]
How to recover from burnout.
I often get asked questions like: 1. Will I ever fully recover from burnout? 2. What does it take to recover from burnout? 3. How long will it take to recover from burnout? My normal answer is: 1. Yes. 2. A lot of hard work. Reviewing what’s important to you, setting boundaries, increasing self-compassion and […]
Give up and take up
Self-care is about looking after yourself in all areas of your life – physically, emotionally, socially, spiritually, professionally and intellectually – and that’s way easier said than done. Because, for example, to look after ourselves socially, we have to start setting boundaries and learning to say no. If we’re going to choose to look after […]
The COVID Tales
Saturday night 18th June 2021 was a super special night for me and many SA businesses and something I’m very proud to share with you. We all know the challenge and let’s be honest (complete weirdness) that 2020 and the COVID-19 season was/is… especially for businesses. In the midst of the COVID-19 initial lockdowns photographer […]
Incongruent living is exhausting
“Incongruent living is exhausting.” – Brené Brown As I’ve been reading ‘The Gifts of Imperfection’ by Brené Brown recently, I was led to reflect on this quote. Here are some brief thoughts: I call myself a people-pleaser-in-recovery! Maybe that’s why I resonate with this quote. For so many years I lived each day subconsciously making […]
Hope for 2021
How great is today?! A new year! A fresh page! I feel a sense of excitement and anticipation about what will be written on this new page! This new year! This new day! A date is just a date… and yet we give it so much meaning, heck, I’m all for new… New hour New […]
You are enough… whether things go well or not.
“You are not defined by the outcome of the situation.” I was just having a forum conversation with some fellow business women and I was reminded of my authenticity mantra. Brené Brown talks about the importance of developing an authenticity mantra so that when we feel threatened, in shame, out of our depth, judged, worried or overwhelmed […]
6 lessons learned from climbing Mt Lofty
On the 31st December 2019 I achieved a goal that I had set for 2018… yes you’re reading that correctly. The goal I achieved was to climb Mt Lofty in Adelaide SA. It’s classified as a Hard Hike and is 7.8km return; up and down very steep terrain. Many people do this hike, it’s a tourist […]
Keeping it simple this silly season!
You don’t have to make things more complicated than they are. It’s only 5 weeks until Christmas and this time of year often comes with more social gatherings than normal. Social gatherings can ignite the disease of “keeping up with the Joneses”. Going to a social event can be stressful especially if you have been […]
Burnout prevention… It’s possible
It’s not the first time you’ve heard me say it… burnout. is. preventable. This is an innate truth and revelation that I received when I went through my own burnout experience. Discovering that what I was going through was actually preventable was the biggest aha moment of my journey. And that’s why I’m passionate about […]
Make Your Own Self-Care List
You know one thing I always say to people about self-care is that it’s different for everyone. There is no 3-step process to getting better by using self-care. It’s a long, often slow process to firstly figure out some ideas about what you could do that would make you feel happy (or cared for), then […]