Supervision & Professional Coaching
Supervision that sustains great practice
Supervision is more than a requirement. It is a supportive, reflective space for learning, growth, and wellbeing. High-quality supervision helps sustain a meaningful career and supports everyone to realise their potential.
Our supervisors facilitate safe, thoughtful conversations that help make sense of challenges, strengthen practice, and support thriving at work. In complex and changing workplaces, a skilled supervisor acts like a coach on our side, offering a tailored relationship that backs growth and development.
Exceptional supervision:
Listens deeply to our individual priorities and experiences
Builds on our existing strengths and skills, aligned to values and career goals
Encourages ongoing reflective practice and lifelong learning
Develops self-awareness and effective interpersonal skills
Supports practical strategies for burnout prevention and self-care.
Michelle’s core principles
Supervisors who are part of Michelle’s team are experienced professionals. Warm, wise, lifelong learners who are deeply committed to their own learning and development. They have all completed Michelle’s professional supervision, leadership and self leadership training and have knowledge of evidence based contemporary leadership principles and frameworks.
During supervision sessions, they draw on the key principles of supervision and leadership outlined in Michelle’s training, books and resources. If Michelle’s core values and training resonate with you, you will feel well supported by any of her recommended supervisors.
“Supervision is an investment in yourself, your practice, and your career.
With the right support, you can feel more capable, more connected, and more sustainable in your work.”
Supervision at its best
Supervision provides
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- cover the four domains of professional learning: clinical, professional, organisational and personal.
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– step back from day-to-day reactive pressures to reflect and see situations with a different focus, reduce overwhelm and reactivity, clarify goals and priorities, challenge assumptions and untangle confusions.
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– strengthen your professional skills and decision making abilities.
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– proactively create a sustainable life-work balance (yes life should come first!!) by reducing stress, preventing burnout, and safeguarding your wellbeing.
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– explore pathways and opportunities that align with your values and purpose to develop your potential.
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– ensure high-quality care and leadership.
Who we support
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Supervision offers a safe and supportive environment to pause, reflect, and deepen practice skills and knowledge. Through guided reflection we explore challenges, celebrate successes, strengthen clinical reasoning, and build confidence in complex situations. Ultimately supervision enhances both professional growth and the quality of care provided to clients.
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For leaders and managers, supervision provides a confidential and constructive space to navigate the pressures of balancing staff wellbeing, team performance, organisational demands and self-leadership. It supports the building of resilience, sharpening people-leadership skills, and fostering emotionally intelligent workplaces that enable both individuals and teams to thrive sustainably.
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Professionals navigating career shifts or role changes can use supervision as a grounding and clarifying process. Whether stepping into a new leadership role, considering a change in direction, or redefining professional identity, supervision helps explore values, strengths, and aspirations, creating clarity, confidence, and purposeful next steps.
Areas we can support you with
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If your goal is to gain clarity in your role, strengthen accountability, and enhance performance your supervisor will support you to unpack challenges, explore workplace dynamics, and navigate organisational expectations. The goal of supervision is to make you feel more grounded and confident in your responsibilities. You will learn how to identify learning opportunities within day-to-day experiences and turn challenges into valuable insights that foster growth, resilience, and professional integrity.
A supervisor will also work alongside you to build the skills needed for strong communication, collaboration, and healthy professional boundaries. Supervision provides a supportive space to reflect on practice, refine approaches to feedback, resolve conflicts, develop teamwork, and strengthen awareness of ethical responsibilities. Supervision will also support you to be a life-long learner and thrive in your role with improved well being, confidence and effectiveness.
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Supervision provides the opportunity for you to clarify career pathways, strengthen professional identity, and build confidence for the future.
Whether planning a transition, stepping into leadership or specialist roles, or simply exploring what’s next, our supervisors will work with you to identify opportunities, set meaningful goals, and create strategies for long-term fulfilment and progression
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Through supervision, our supervisors will help you cultivate the personal responsibility and resilience of self-leadership and strengthen decision-making and problem-solving skills. The relationship will also support greater adaptability and resourcefulness and foster autonomy that is grounded in values and purpose. This will enable you to meet challenges with clarity, confidence, and integrity and feel empowered leading others.
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Supervision provides a supportive space to deepen self-awareness and emotional intelligence through reflective exploration of the intrapersonal and interpersonal skills. This may include fostering relationship skills or exploring personal triggers and responses.
Our supervisors will help you manage stress and conflict constructively and strengthen emotional regulation, enhancing both professional effectiveness and wellbeing.
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Supervision helps protect against burnout and compassion fatigue by supporting healthy boundaries and life-work integration (because life should always come first 😊). Through reflective practice and tailored self-care strategies, our supervisors will guide you to sustain your wellbeing, maintain long-term passion for your work, and preserve the energy needed to thrive in demanding professional environments.
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Our supervisors will help you to enhance your clinical and reflective practice skills while ensuring safe, ethical, and effective client care. They will support you to build confidence in managing complex or challenging cases and encourage ongoing development grounded in evidence-based practice. This will strengthen both competence and professional growth
Why work with Us
Choosing to work with us means partnering with supervisors who share the values and strategies developed by Michelle Bihary, while bringing their own diverse experience and expertise to support your growth.
Our supervisors have been selected as they are passionate about helping supervisees clarify goals, strengthen professional identity, and expand their skills in a way that feels relevant and empowering. If you are looking for a warm, strengths-focused approach tailored to your individual needs, alongside practical strategies that build resilience, fosters professional effectiveness, and sustain long-term growth then let’s talk.
Above all, our supervisors offer a trusted and confidential space where you can reflect, recharge, and develop with the guidance and encouragement needed to thrive in your career.
“I now realise how much I’ve missed during my career by not having regular, supportive supervision focused on my own professional growth and learning goals.
This experience has shown me the value of prioritising time for reflection and intentional development.”
Our Expert Supervisors/Coaches
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Naomi Kalman
Individual, Couple and Family Therapist, Professional and Clinical SupervisorB App Sc (OT), Grad Dip Fam Ther, AHPRA, Clinical Member VAFT
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Brodie Dupre
At capacity and currently unavailable to take on new supervisees.
Practice Excellence Coach/Senior Occupational Therapist, professional and clinical supervisor, Masters of Healthcare Leadership (2021), Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (2005), AHPRA registered
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Catherine Mayhew
At capacity and currently unavailable to take on new supervisees.
Bachelor Health Science Occupational Therapy, AHPRA, Currently completing Foundations of Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, graduate certificate. Extensive Supervision training with Michelle Bihary and Leadership Intensive with AIM
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Nichola Harris
Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP), MSPA, B App Sci (Speech Pathology), Cert Bus Administration, Graduate AICD
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WHAT CLIENTS HAVE TO SAY…
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"My supervisor was very quick to identify my ‘level’ in terms of skills, background and supervisions needs, and met me there – this meant we could converse and troubleshoot effectively right from the first day! My supervisor was encouraging, empathetic and responsive – I felt like she had my back and understood my thinking almost before I did, which was super helpful, given we never actually got to meet in person!"
Gemma Houston - Mercy Health
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"Naomi is an extremely wise, smart, kind, thoughtful and experienced supervisor and clinician. She is a lifelong learner, highly committed to supporting the ongoing professional development of her supervisees. Naomi is an expert in building great relationships with clients and supervisees and brings her warmth, genuine commitment to helping others to her work. I cannot recommend Naomi highly enough."
-Michelle Bihary
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"My supervisor has been the most fabulous, supportive person with my supervision, and I have appreciated her amazing insights. She has supported me from the Acting CEO position to now being endorsed as permanent CEO!"
Michelle Thompson - CEO, Family Access Network
