Australia
Philosophy of Supervision; I describe supervision as a shared space for supervisor and supervisee to reflect on clinical practice and work collaboratively for the best interests of clients. The space provides safe, non-judgemental and ethical support and is an invitation to explore clinical material creatively, bodily and psychodynamically, so that understanding about client work will be holistic and integral. The space also explores self-care of the supervisee to ensure competence as a safe practitioner.
Approach to supervision; psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment-based, self-psychology concepts, embodied,
Supervision training: The Advanced Supervision Course, the Arts and Science Supervision Alliance (PACFA accredited). 2022
Individual or groups: Offering individual-based and embodied group supervision. I offer reading materials for practitioners if required and relevant to support the clinical work.
In-person or online; both
Clinical experience of the supervisor ; A master degree in dance movement psychotherapy, Goldsmiths, University of London (graduated in 2015).
Since I qualified as a dance movement psychotherapist in 2015, I have clinically worked in primary schools, special needs schools, a pupil referral unit, a prison, NHS mental health hospitals and charities in the United Kingdom and Japan. I facilitated movement-based group psychotherapy groups for teens with neurodiverse backgrounds and psychotic episodes at an NHS psychiatric hospital.
In Japan, I facilitated a dance movement psychotherapy group for women who were socially isolated for a number of years. I also worked at a psychiatric hospital for older people (60+) who were socially institutionalised for a long time. I learnt to become culturally-informed as a practitioner.
After I moved to South Australia in 2020, I worked mainly with NDIS participants at a clinic for about 3 years. I began working privately since 2023 at a private clinical space, seeing children, young people, adults and couples. I specialise now in working with people with complex trauma including preverbal trauma, body dysphoria, body image, neurodiverse backgrounds.
In 2021, I began to teach psychotherapy and dance movement therapy subjects at a private institution.
I currently supervise dance movement therapists, art psychotherapists, psychotherapists, counsellors, and social workers.
I am currently undertaking a research project funded by HEMF and researching preverbal trauma and its bodily impact on fostered /adopted children.
Website: Clinical Supervision | Dance Movement Therapy Moving Circle
