Supervision is an important component of professional development. Whether you are just starting out or an experienced professional, supervision will aide you in enhancing your work practices, your boundaries and working through your own issues and avoiding burnout, in what can be an emotionally draining job.

A good professional will know their belief system, understand their own values and fully aware of their attitudes and biases. Supervision is a place where professionals can discuss how these may be affecting their work and how to work around this, but also to discuss work with clients and critically analyse their practice. This provides them with an opportunity to see where their values, beliefs, attitudes and biases may be affecting their ability to support a client and how this can be overcome. Supervision is a place where a professional's concerns can be openly discussed a supervisor can help to formulate strategies to address concerns both for the professional and in the professional's work

The helping industries (including social work, counselling, youth work and child protection to name a few) can be stressful to work in, and one of a supervisor's roles is to spot signs of burnout and help to put prevention strategies in place.

"Most supervisory relationships will be a blend of professional, education and therapeutic aspects" and an effective supervisor is able to discuss concerns with a supervisee (the professional seeking supervision) in a way that allows growth and change in the supervisee, without the supervisee feeling critiscied, disregarded or judged.

Healing Hearts firmly believes in the principles of effective supervision and its importance in creating effective professionals in our industries. This is why we offer a professional, clinical supervision options to professionals within the helping industries.

If you are interested in seeking clinical supervision, for you and/or your team, please contact our staff at Healing Hearts via the details on our Contact Us page (see button below) or via the contact form to the right.

For more on the benefits and important of supervision please review the following articles:

• "The Importance of Counselling Supervision" which can be accessed at the following link http://www.aipc.net.au/articles/the-importance-of-counselling-supervision/ (information here has been taken from this article)
• Australian Association of Social Workers "Supervision Standards 2014" which can be accessed at the following link http://www.aasw.asn.au/document/item/6027

Coaching and mentoring provides industry professionals with extra guidance and support, with the view of increasing their current abilities and skill sets, but also to support career progression.

Regardless of your position or experience, coaching and mentoring can help you perfect your skill set, identify and understand your areas of improvements and help you effect change in your practices.

Coaching and mentoring improves a professional's confidence in themselves and their work. A coach and mentor is a sounding board for ideas and is able to discuss projects, providing an objective view point and an additional support to plan and create.

If you are interested in our coaching and/or mentoring services, for you and/or your team, please contact our staff at Healing Hearts to discuss how we can support you and your team into the future.