Professional Supervision Training
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Quality supervision supports us to deliver the best client services possible.
Supervision can be an optimal, even transformative learning experience that helps us build clinical and practice wisdom.
It is a uniquely tailored, professional development process that supports clinical and professional skill development, reflection and the essential skills of self-care and personal well-being.
As the Transformative Supervision Model below conveys, supervision is not always a positive experience. If supervisors and workplaces are unaware of best-practice principles, there is a risk that supervision can be a benign, or even toxic experience.
Introduction to professional and clinical supervision training with Michelle
“Michelle is an exceptional presenter who fosters a strong sense of psychological safety and trust among her participants.
I came away with a wealth of reflections—both on how I lead others and how I lead myself.”
PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISION TRAINING OPTIONS
Michelle is highly regarded for her supervision training and has a range of options for building supervisory skills and supporting workplaces to offer best practice supervision.
These programs can be delivered in-house to your workplace, online or in person, or for individuals, you can attend with participants from many other organisations from all over Australia and New Zealand.
Details of programs are outlined below and if you have any queries please click the button below to email Michelle directly.
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Professional Supervision Training
2 day program for supervisors
This popular 2-day training program, is suitable for both experienced and new supervisors.
It’s an in-depth exploration of practical frameworks and tools to guide supervision practice. This program elevates supervision from a cursory run through one’s caseload to ensuring supervision is a rich, empowering and energising learning experience, covering the range of professional learning, from clinical, professional, organisational and personal.
The training emphasises ways to build an engaging, supervisory relationship, informed by values, self-awareness and emotional intelligence ensuring the development of psychological safety, where learning can flourish. A 12 month embedding program is included to support your learning.
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Getting the Most out of Supervision
1 day program for supervisees
Getting the Most out of Supervision 1 day program for supervisees
This full day session provides the practical frameworks and skills to assist supervisees to drive their supervisory sessions and develop their capacity to be self-directed lifelong learners.
The session provides practical skill building opportunities for supervisees at various levels of experience. It assists them to prepare an agenda for supervision, understand and articulate their own learning goals, learning needs and learning preferences and builds their capacity to be reflective learners.
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Advanced Supervision
1 day advanced program for supervisors
This one program is only available to those who have completed Michelle’s 2-day Professional Supervision program.
It provides a deeper exploration of the core skills of supervision and an opportunity to reinforce, consolidate and extend learning.
This program is customised to the learning goals and needs of the participants, which you will be able to communicate in your registration form or prior to the workshop via email. This will allow you to share how you are going with the development of your supervisory skills and share where you are keen to further develop your skills.
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Thrive & Revive in Supervision
1 day program for supervisors who want to bring genuine well-being practice into their supervision
This program compliments Michelle's professional supervision and advanced supervision programs but neither are required for attendance.
The program equips participants with the knowledge, frameworks and practical skills to make professional well-being a genuine and valued strand of supervision. Rather than a one-off conversation, practitioner well-being becomes an ongoing, purposeful dimension of supervisory practice.
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Key Principles of Supervision
Training for Managers
An in-house customised program for managers on the key principles of Professional and Clinical Supervision to support workplace learning.
This program assists managers to build the workplace capacity around supervision, enhance supervision policies and procedures and optimise the learning culture to support best practice professional and clinical supervision in the workplace.
Additional Supervision Resources
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Transformative Supervision - Guide
This evidence-based guide explores what high-quality supervision looks like, why it matters, and how to build supervision that strengthens learning, professional wellbeing and workplace culture.
Whether you are a supervisor, supervisee or senior leader, it provides practical insights and frameworks to help you strengthen supervision capability.
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Best practice supervision surveys
Are you and your workplace engaged in supervision aligned with best practice?
As supervisory experiences can vary wildly from toxic to transformative, these insights surveys aim to highlight ways the workplace/supervisors/supervisees can build their supervisory skills and optimise the supervisory experience aligned with best practice.
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Webinar recording: Elevating Supervision: What's changing, and what's next?
Within this 45 minute webinar Michelle explores:
✓ How organisational commitment, culture, and context combine to create a truly effective foundation for supervision.
✓ What the emerging data is telling us about supervision's impact on wellbeing, performance and psychological safety
✓ Concrete ways leaders and decision makers can lift supervision from “tick‑box” to transformative – for supervisors, supervisees, and whole teams.
✓ Why wellbeing belongs at the heart of supervision, and how supervision conversations can embrace the value of this.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS’ FEEDBACK …
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"As always amazing work, very motivating, thank you."
Meiny Erasmus | 2026
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"I have implemented your 5 questions in every supervision session I have had since your workshop and started the very next day. It has significantly changed the sessions, I am not working so hard to problems solve and the supervisees visibly walk away with increased confidence and reassurance after coming up with their own options, solutions and are so enjoying this new reflective lens."
Psychologist (Board Approved Supervisor with 30 years experience) | 2025
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"I feel incredibly fortunate to have attended the Professional Supervision Training with Michelle Bihary. Michelle is an exceptional presenter who fosters a strong sense of psychological safety and trust among her participants. I came away with a wealth of reflections—both on how I lead others and how I lead myself.
- Nina Johnson MACP | Senior Physiotherapist | NSW Health
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"I highly recommend Michelle’s 2-day Professional Supervision training for all allied health clinicians. The process was smooth from start to finish, with a resource pack (workbook, her book Leading Above the Line and some goodies) provided well in advance, and an optional 12-month embedding program plus extensive follow-up resources...I didn’t just leave with more confidence and practical tools for being a good supervisor, but also insights on how to be a better supervisee. "
Your OT Tutor - August 2025
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“Michelle’s training reignited my love of learning and shifted my focus to concentrating on strengths to assist my team to grow. By role modelling these ideas in the training, I was able to quickly implement them into my own practice. Her generosity with the resources she has developed has meant I have been able to explore what works for myself and each individual team member. I am so grateful to be on a clearer and more confident path to providing effective and transformative supervision”
-Ryan J. Wallace, Occupational therapy Educator
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“Michelle offered a thoughtfully presented and thought-provoking two day seminar on supervision, perfectly timed with expanding my Occupational Therapy private practice. The tools, discussions, and presentation were professionally delivered and very engaging. Michelle exemplified her material throughout the seminar. She showed us just how powerful and effective supervision can be in supporting individual team members to bring their best to their clients, to the business but more importantly, to themselves.”
-Miranda Bruyn | Business Owner/Consultant Occupational Therapist - Occupation Matters
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“I found the Supervision course very enriching with information, that not only helped me to supervise but as a supervisee for myself. Michelle Bihary has so much experience and knowledge in leadership, and supervision, that can support many areas of work or workplaces to support their staff and themselves in their growth and learning goals. I highly recommend this course.”
-Melissa Walker-Tate | Occupational Therapist - Connecting Together Ltd. | Dec 2021
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“Thanks for a fantastic two days, I can’t wait to reflect on Supervision and work on making it a really positive learning experience for myself and supervisees in the future. You’ve got an amazing and interactive presentation style and kept me thinking throughout the entire two days. ”
-Tess Feery | Speech Pathologist and Director - Flying Start Children’s Therapy
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"It was bloody fabulous & I feel completely refreshed going into a supervisory role after having some previously horrible experiences"
- Elyce Mitchell
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“Two incredible days with Michelle Bihary (and an awesome group of allied health professionals!!) exploring principles, techniques and tools for high quality professional supervision. I loved learning from Michelle - her generosity of self, knowledge and resources resulted in the best training I have attended in a loooooong time... perhaps even ever!! 5/5 stars - highly recommend! ”
-Participant Professional Supervision 2 day training
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"I have been supervising for over six years now but I have found that the recent Advanced Supervision course I attended has really helped consolidate my supervision skills to another level. Michelle was able to expertly tailor the course to the attendee’s learning needs. and She was able impart highly relevant and practical knowledge an"d skills that I can apply at my next supervision sessions."
- Jocelyn Cefai | IPC Health
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"I walked away with a new energy around supervision and with a lot of new ways to support people. It was just exceptional."
- Professional Supervision online course participant 2024
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"As an ESSA Accredited Exercise Physiologist (AEP), I found Michelle’s 2 day course ‘Professional Supervision’ extremely beneficial for my own development and my capacity to deliver effective supervision to maximise the learning of my supervisees"
- Andrew Rivellese | Senior Exercise Physiologist | Ability Action
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The content was great and Michelle, you are an amazing presenter and the balance between presentation and break out rooms was perfect! Thank you for a great learning experience!
- Professional supervision public program participant, 2025
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"I really appreciated the effort you went to in putting it in language I understood when it started getting a bit too clinical. I am walking away with so many incredibly valuable practical strategies that I can easily implement in supervision sessions. Thank you. "
Anna McGee | Rural Financial Counsellor
