Supervision & Professional Coaching
Supervision that sustains great practice
Supervision is far more than a professional requirement. At its best, it is a supportive, reflective space for learning, growth, and wellbeing. High-quality supervision helps sustain a meaningful career and support individuals to navigate complexity with clarity and optimise their potential.
In our increasingly demanding and changing workplaces, we all need a steady space to pause, reflect and think deeply. A skilled supervisor works alongside you, offering thoughtful conversation, encouragement, reflective questions and challenge in ways that are tailored to your priorities, goals and learning preferences..
High quality supervision is designed to strengthen both your professional effectiveness and your personal sustainability.
“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.”
What supervision provides
Supervision is one of the most powerful spaces for growth, clarity, and renewal. It supports you not only in responding to immediate challenges, but in building long-term capability, resilience and professional confidence.
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Supervision creates rich learning across the four domains of professional development: clinical, professional, organisational, and personal.
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Supervision allows you to step back from day-to-day reactive pressures, slow the pace to reduce overwhelm and reactivity, clarify goals and priorities, challenge assumptions, and see situations from a different perspective.
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Supervision helps you strengthen your professional skills and decision-making, particularly so you can approach complex or uncertain situations with greater confidence.
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Supervision helps you 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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Supervision helps you explore pathways and opportunities that align with your values and sense of purpose. It supports you to develop your potential in ways that feel meaningful and sustainable across the lifespan of your career.
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At its core, supervision strengthens ethical decision making, professional integrity, and high-quality care and leadership.
Supervision provides
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Building interpersonal and communication skills, unpacking workplace challenges, navigating organisational expectations, and strengthening professional boundaries so you feel more grounded and confident in your role.
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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Clarifying career pathways, strengthening professional identity, exploring transitions, and setting meaningful goals that support long-term fulfilment and progression.
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Building decision-making, problem-solving, and values-based self-leadership skills, with greater confidence, adaptability, and integrity.
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Deepening self-awareness and emotional intelligence, strengthening communication and relationship skills, and learning to manage stress and conflict constructively in professional relationships to enhance effectiveness and well-being.
Our supervisors will help you manage stress and conflict constructively and strengthen emotional regulation, enhancing both professional effectiveness and wellbeing.
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Supporting life-work sustainability by reducing stress, preventing burnout and compassion fatigue, and building the reflective practices and self care strategies needed to preserve the energy required to thrive in demanding professional environments.
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All our supervisors can support evidence-informed thinking, confidence in navigating complexity and strengthening reflective capacity and ethical decision-making.
Our supervisors have a variety of professional backgrounds. Clinical support able to be offered by our supervisors will be outlined in the individual supervisor’s bios.
Areas we can support you with
My core principles
The supervisors who are part of my team are experienced healthcare professionals who bring warmth, wisdom, and a genuine commitment to lifelong learning. They understand that supervision is about partnership, reflection, and growth.
They have all completed my training in professional supervision, leadership, and self-leadership and have knowledge grounded in contemporary, evidence-based frameworks that support well being, reflective capacity, and sustainable practice.
In their work, they draw on the principles outlined in my books, training, and resources. If my values and approach resonate with you, you will feel well supported by any supervisor I recommend.
When you choose to work with one of our supervisors, you are partnering with individuals who share the values and strategies developed by me, while bringing their own diverse experience and expertise to support your growth.
Our supervisors are passionate about supporting you to:
Clarify goals and direction
Strengthen your professional confidence
Expand your skills in ways that feel relevant and empowering
Build practical strategies for resilience and long-term sustainability
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.
How it feels to work with us
“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.”
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seeking a supportive and reflective space to enhance practice.
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balancing the care of other performance, and wellbeing.
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who are exploring career direction, role changes, or professional identity.
Who We Support
We offer flexible options to suit your needs and circumstances including
Single supervision sessions or a package of 4 or more sessions to be used at your discretion.
Flexible payment options, including direct invoicing to your workplace or to you personally.
How it works
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
At capacity and currently unavailable to take on new supervisees.
Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP), MSPA, B App Sci (Speech Pathology), Cert Bus Administration, Graduate AICD
Supervision & Coaching Services Enquiries
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
