Clinical supervision

Counsellors, therapists, students and helping professionals. Whether you are newly registered and building hours, still studying, or years into practice and wanting a second perspective, supervision is for practitioners rather than clients.

Yes. Supervision is provided by an ACA-registered Clinical Supervisor who is a member of the ACA College of Supervisors, and it is structured to align with ACA's requirements and Code of Ethics.

Yes. Clinical supervision provided by Shuv Homsi counts towards your Australian Counselling Association (ACA) supervision requirements.

Shuv is an ACA Level 2 Counsellor and an ACA Registered Clinical Supervisor, providing formal clinical supervision for counsellors, students and helping professionals in line with ACA supervision standards.

Sessions focus on developing your clinical skills, ethical practice, professional growth, case formulation, reflective practice and client outcomes. Supervision documentation can be provided on request to support your ACA supervision records.

If you are not sure whether supervision here suits your current ACA membership level or professional requirements, get in touch and we will work it out with you.

Both.

Individual supervision is one to one, built around your own clinical work, professional development, ethical decision-making and reflective practice.

Group supervision is a collaborative setting where you gain from other practitioners' experience and perspectives as well as your own cases, within the same professional and ethical standards.

Whether you are a student, newly qualified, or years into practice, supervision is there to build your confidence, sharpen your clinical skills and support your ongoing development.

It depends on your needs, your level of experience, your ACA requirements and the kind of work you are doing.

Many counsellors meet monthly. Others prefer fortnightly or weekly, particularly early in their career, while carrying complex cases, or where a workplace or professional requirement sets the pace.

In your first session Shuv will work out a schedule with you that fits your practice and your ongoing ACA supervision obligations.

Yes. Supervision runs online by secure video anywhere in Australia, or in person at Bankstown. Most supervisees outside Sydney work online.

Whatever is live. Usually one or two current cases, sometimes a specific ethical question, sometimes something about your own practice rather than a client. You do not need to prepare a formal presentation, though bringing your notes helps.

Yes, and it is worth bringing early rather than once it has escalated. Subpoenas, requests for records, and clients involved in family law or court matters all come up. What supervision provides is a considered view of your obligations and your scope of practice; it is not legal advice, and where you need that we will say so.

Yes, within the same limits that apply to any therapeutic work: disclosure required by law, mandatory reporting obligations, or a serious and imminent risk to someone. Client material you bring is discussed in a way that keeps their identity protected.

Say so. Supervision routinely surfaces burnout, vicarious trauma and the effect of a particular case on the practitioner, and that is legitimate supervision material rather than a diversion from it. If what you need is your own therapy, that is a different relationship and we would help you find it elsewhere rather than provide both.