Supervisors in Wellington

Ally is a skilled supervisor who practices using a client-centred style, seeing and affirming the client as the expert of their own self and giving validation to their experiences. She lists amongst her specialties training, facilitation, mediation, mentoring, supervision of both clinical and students, and group work.

Andra focuses on creating safer spaces for relational healing that honour diversity and inclusiveness and fostering individual and collective empowerment, connection, integration and growth. She places a strong focus on individual agency and choice, cultural humility, invitational language, self-awareness and compassion.

Andra is a passionate, authentic and empathic clinical social worker working from a person-centered, strengths-based approach with efficient use of various eclectic therapeutic modalities, such as attachment theory, narrative therapy, the neurobiology of trauma, somatic and sensorimotor psychotherapy, mindfulness, body-based and compassion practices. She brings over 10 years of experience in the helping fields, ranging from counselling, supervision, teaching in post-secondary education, child protection, community mental health, concurrent needs and case management, as well as crisis intervention, family violence, and sexual harm prevention and intervention.

Belinda works with people in a non-judgemental, person-centered flexible way exploring their whole body responses to life issues.

Working with adolescents, adults and the elderly, Belinda's experience spans a wide range of life issues and people of different cultures.

An experienced counsellor, group worker and supervisor since 1987, Bev has extensive training in the psychodrama method and group work, and is an AANZPA accredited TEP-trainer, educator and practitioner - and the director of the Wellington Psychodrama Training Institute.

Bev has worked extensively with migrant and refugee groups, was the founder of the Home Tutor Language Project and trained and worked as a volunteer counsellor with refugees as survivors.

Bev has worked as a supervisor of individuals and small groups regularly since 1990 and has also trained people as supervisors.

Bev's supervision can assist you to:

• address the personal and interpersonal aspects of your work;
• enhance personal and professional effectiveness;
• manage workload and stress;
• pursue ongoing professional development;
• explore current and future directions.

She has experience in working with people from a wide range of professional groups to reflect on their work, and she sees this as an important form of ongoing professional development. Bev uses a range of approaches in her supervision practice and can see the real value of thinking systemically, opening out an issue or situation and exploring it in depth and from different perspectives.

Brent has many years' experience providing supervision to multiple agencies and individuals, including lawyers, counsellors, addiction counsellors, stopping violence providers, community workers, residential home care workers and community outreach workers.

Carmen trained in psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural therapeutic modalities. She works from an inclusive and holistic perspective, believing that people are the experts in their own lives and ultimately have the inherent resilience to overcome strife. Carmen sees the role of the therapist as being that of assisting individuals with gaining insight into the obstacles to their self-fulfilment. Together, the therapist and client then embark on a journey to develop appropriate tools and strategies to change unhelpful behaviours and to cope with difficulties.

Celia brings over 20 years' psychotherapy, counselling and supervision experience to Vitae. She works with individuals, couples and families in her practice and is an ICEEFT (International Centre for Emotionally Focused Therapy) certified supervisor and therapist. Celia is experienced in both short and long-term therapy and has worked in various educational and mental health settings including university counselling, school guidance counselling, youth specialty and eating disorder services. Celia has experience in providing professional supervision to counsellors, psychotherapists, health professionals, community workers and educators.   

Clare works intuitively through relationships with her clients, and provides clinical and professional supervision.

Claire takes a partnership approach to her work with clients. This approach also allows her to work distinctly from an understanding of their perspective and needs. Amongst her areas of specialty are support with work or personal stress, coping with change, development or performance, managing conflict and communication.

Alongside her significant experience, Claire brings enormous enthusiasm, integrity, and insight to her work and takes enormous fulfilment from seeing others succeed.

Deon has been providing supervision for over 10 years. He is a client and solution-focused professional, committed and adaptable in providing support to a diverse range of clients. Deon works collaboratively with clients, identifying goals, strengths and potential solutions to problems which cause emotional turmoil; seeking to improve communication and coping skills; strengthen self-esteem; and promote behaviour change and optimal mental health.

Diane has experience as a counsellor and supervisor in a range of settings within the private and not-for-profit sectors, including 9 years in her own private practice. She has experience working with a diverse range of individuals, couples and families, with a background working with children and youth for the past 35 years. She works collaboratively with clients, exploring possibilities for change where necessary.

Fiona has been providing supervision for the past 10 years. Her experience in many therapeutic models and approaches means that she is easily able to adapt to your learning style and assist you with tools for your work. She has worked with many age groups and people from all walks of life and many ethnicities.

Gay specialises in working with Māori whanau, including rangatahi and tamariki. She has particular skills and knowledge related to working with people affected by violence and abuse, and struggling with their cultural identity. She also works with people presenting with a range of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety and grief.

Iwi - Te Atiawa
Hapu - Ngāti te Whiti, Ngāti Puketapu

Heather’s clinical career has been as a speech-language therapist (SLT) in child health, education and disability. She has worked with families and other services supporting children.

Alongside this role Heather has always acted as a clinical supervisor for people in a wide range of clinical and service roles. This includes community workers, social workers, case managers, physios, OTs, Psychologists, speech-language therapists, team leaders and managers. Heather is also trained in running supervision workshops.

Heather offers confidential and supportive professional supervision utilising a range of supervision approaches.

Facilitating social justice through community partnerships and multi-tiered communication strategies, Heidi has extensive bicultural and cross-cultural experience, and is specialised in family and domestic abuse and trauma.

In addition, she is skilled in professional supervision, professional training, media production, tertiary education, mental health arts facilitation, project management and public/community art production.

As a supervisor, Heidi works holistically, using a range of modalities to help people explore professional practice through the lens of values, culture, purpose, wellbeing, and relationships. Her practice models include clinical supervision (based on NZ Department of Corrections framework); bicultural, Pasifika and cross-cultural approaches; traditional therapeutic models and theories (motivational interviewing, CBT, attachment, strengths-focused, trauma-informed); and a range of other creative therapies and wellbeing strategies (mindfulness, meditation, karakia).

Kay has been supervising social workers, support workers and people from other disciplines who work alongside families for a number of years.  Her approach is respectful and empathetic and invites collaboration and choice with a focus on identifying current strengths and developing new ones. She believes that people are the experts of their own world/life and can grow and change with support and guidance.

Her clinical areas of specialty include general adult mental health, infant and maternal mental health, working with family issues, anger, conflict, relationship issues, separation, parenting, and grief and loss - incorporating relational/trauma informed principles.  

Liz is a registered social worker with many decades of experience providing supervision, support and professional development for managers, professionals and front-line practitioners in a range of government and non-government agencies and communities.

Her supervisees come from a range of professional and cultural backgrounds. They work with children, young people, families and whānau, and individual adults and older people, and are employed in national and local roles across the social, health, education, justice and wider government and community sectors.

Liz has specialised professional supervision experience in the areas of people and programme leadership; family and whānau support; child protection (physical and sexual abuse and neglect); youth justice; family violence; mental health; homelessness; youth development and end-of-life care.

Liz's supervision practice is embedded in appreciative inquiry and solution-focused strength-based approaches. Of English, Irish and Scots descent, she is married to Tainui kaumatua Tau Huirama and is nana to eight mokopuna.

Liz provides professional supervision that aims to be responsive, perceptive, creative, purposeful and empowering. She offers a safe space to reflect on your practice context, your professional practice and your personal wellbeing and how these weave together. Liz is committed to helping you to discover what works best in your practice by connecting you with yourself through reflection and with others through thoughtful action. Liz has worked in a wide range of roles and settings and brings this diversity of experiences to support you in your role.

Madeleine works as a people skills consultant and has been providing professional supervision mostly in health, mental health and leadership. Madeleine is also an accomplished workshop facilitator and long-time trainer of negotiation and influencing skills and managing difficult conversations. She has been teaching resilience and stress management all her professional life. She has a special interest in raising resilient children in an overindulgent world.

Maria is an experienced people leader with nearly 12 years' management and professional leadership expertise. She is also a senior lawyer with over 25 years' legal practice experience.

Maria's strengths are working with people using a reflective learning technique to enable them to grow and develop in their professional lives (at whatever stage). 

She has previously worked as a barrister, a trainer of legal graduates and as a lawyer and senior manager in government departments.

Marie is experienced in both short- and long-term therapy, and has worked in various settings including university, addiction services, hospital and family violence agencies. Marie has worked extensively with both Māori communities and Pasifika and migrant peoples. She also brings experience working with Māori world views and indigenous practices.

Marilyn is a senior business consultant, workplace supervisor, group and workshop facilitator, project manager and analyst with over 20 years’ experience in a wide variety of delivery environments (public, private and not-for-profit). She brings an awareness of system-wide implications and related organisational impacts to the work she does. 

Marilyn has worked as a group facilitator and supervisor for over 15 years, and has extensive training in psychodrama and action methods. She has provided supervision for not-for-profit organisations, mainly in the mental health and addictions sector. Through her company Phoenix Facilitation, she also delivers training to those interested in improving their group facilitation skills, and is an experienced group worker in many settings.

A passionate and motivated counsellor with many years of experience working in short term therapy, facilitation, supervision and tutoring. Martin also has wide experience working in the health sector.

Areas of specialty

• Career transition
• Coaching
• Conflict resolution and mediation
• Effective communication
• Enhancing productivity
• Leadership skill and capacity development
• Managing change and loss (work and life)
• Organisational relevance
• Profitability
• Team development
• Registered ACC coach

Martin coaches those seeking change. His coaching involves personal (including career) growth or work performance, wellbeing, relationships, and management/leadership.

He has a strong background in both the public and private sectors and was formerly a commercial lawyer/partner. Since 2006, he has been a fulltime professional coach.

Monique has over 30 years' experience across a range of different organisational contexts, including local and central government departments, iwi organisations, community groups/NGOs, and more recently in the family violence sector.

She is skilled working with both individuals and groups as a facilitator, mediator and supervisor.

Her experience includes working with historic or present trauma, responding to distressing events, conflict, supporting the development of indigenous programmes for Māori providers at grass-roots levels, developing strengths-based prevention programmes, and working with organisational policy and strategy to develop effective processes.

Her organisational approach focuses on creating value by enabling you and your team to do your best work, achieve clarity of purpose, design solutions, develop high-performing teams and get into the flow. She also provides Ahikura supervision.

Natalie has provided clinical supervision and mentoring to health professionals for over 10 years. She also has experience in senior management, service development and improvement projects. Natalie’s supervision style is reflective and focused on what individuals want to achieve, being aware of the wider context within which they work.

Peter likes to provide a collaborative approach based on the relationship between the client and therapist/supervisor and supervisee. He integrates talking, interactive art and education into sessions, and uses a transactional analysis framework to help people identify and change the thought and behaviour patterns that are keeping them from feeling their best. 

Phil has been providing clinical supervision in the Wellington region for over twenty years. He has supervised individuals and teams over a wide range of disciplines, such as counsellors, social workers, youth workers, residential services teams, foster parent teams and others.

Currently offering in-person sessions in Paekakariki, and online and over-the-phone in other regions.

A qualified clinical psychologist and narrative therapist with over 25 years' experience, Richard assists adults, young people, children, couples and families from a wide range of communities address their issues and concerns.

Richard's preferred method is narrative therapy because of its commitment to work respectfully, collaboratively and effectively.

*An additional cost may apply and approval may be required prior to booking.

Robyn provides supervision of people working in the allied health professions in both physical and mental health. She has experience in supervising people from a number of different disciplines including students, social workers, counsellors, community workers, teachers, nurses, field officers, pastors and industrial chaplains.

Sandra has been a supervisor of student and qualified counsellors for over 20-years providing both individual and group supervision. Her key strengths are empowering people, networking and community development.  Sandra has the ability to lead, she has a good understanding of people and believes she is able to assist others in reaching their optimum potential.

Shar uses a number of creative modalities including interactive drawing therapy, focusing, dream work, some psychodrama and some energy and body-centred work. She also makes use of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and emotionally focused therapy (EFT). Working with implicit and explicit communication Shar invites clients to pay attention to the non-verbal aspects of their communication. In supervision she asks her supervisees to pay attention to the transferences and counter-transferences inherent in all relationships. Shar works within a resource-based, client-centred model.

An experienced general counsellor using a strengths-based approach, Sharman is particularly interested in how our mind affects our body and vice versa, and the way workplace issues impact on our personal wellbeing.

With over 16 years' experience in mental health and community A&D services, Siddartha provides professional supervision.

*An additional cost may apply and approval may be required prior to booking.

Silvia provides individual and group supervision as well as workshop facilitation services. She is a practitioner with more than 23 years experience.

Steve has experience in clinical supervision for counsellors and professional supervision for workplace coaching, relationship management, change management and performance.  

Using a client-centred, strengths-based approach, Sue helps clients explore their concerns and become equipped to choose healthy responses in order to achieve wholeness, resolution of issues and 'closure' on matters that may have held them back. As a placement supervisor Sue supervises other counsellors.  

Susie has over 20 years' experience in providing clinical supervision to health professionals. To assist clients' professional practice Susie provides, in summary, the following types of supervision in a caring way - restorative (supportive i.e. a space to debrief, brainstorm, review personal process related to work issues); normative (administrative related i.e. standards of practice, ethics, safety) and formative (training/education related i.e. theory, assessment, strategies).

Tim provides a confidential and supportive environment to review your work and to help you to develop and continue to develop professional and personal self-care. Tim provides positive support and supervision for staff coaching, training, staff development and workplace relationships including constructive feedback and support about decisions and your work.

Toni has a strong belief in the importance of the supervisor-supervisee connection and relationship and works from the perspective of the whole person and exploring barriers to effective practice. Toni has a particular interest in the dynamics of abuse and supervising people involved in supporting survivors of abuse and workplace bullying.

Toni also has extensive experience as a counsellor working with individuals, relationships, family, Family Court (mediation and domestic violence), students and employee assistance programmes. She is trained in person-centred and experiential therapy, narrative therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. Toni has worked in bicultural and multicultural contexts, including experience with tangata whenua, Pacific peoples, and people from Arabic and Muslim cultures.