Planning your Clinical Supervision for 2026
By Jo
It’s the beginning of a new year, for many of us clinicians it’s a time to step back, take a pause, think about the past year, and what we want for ourselves and our work for the year ahead.
If like us, you’re an Occupational Therapist working to support young people and their mental health and wellbeing, chances are you find your work to be deeply meaningful, rewarding, but let’s be real, sometimes REALLY heavy.
You might be supporting youth through distress, trauma, or big life transitions. You sit with risk, navigate complex systems (hello NDIS, Medicare and public health) advocate for your clients, all whilst planning and delivering meaningful interventions.
This work is complex and this is why safe and supportive clinical supervision isn’t just a regulatory requirement, it’s essential to support us to reflect, prevent burnout and ensure the longevity of our careers.
Supervision gives you a place to pause and say:
“This case feels tricky.” 😬
“I’m not sure if I’m getting this right.” 🫤
“This session stayed with me.” 😩
“I noticed myself feeling…….” 😢
Not to be judged or critiqued, but to think it through with someone who understands the work. In a safe space where you don’t need to portray confidence. A space where you can be unsure, ask questions, reflect on what is coming up for you, revisit Occupational Therapy theory, clinical reasoning and be real and talk honestly about what’s feeling hard. Clinical supervision also helps us remain curious as clinicians, and reflect on and learn from our experiences.
Supervision can help you remain in the work, not burn out from it, providing you with a space to process your work, make sense of it and continue to practice in line with your values as an OT.
At The Social Confidence Collective, our experienced team of Occupational Therapists often discuss the value in engaging in supervision. We’ve seen and experienced the benefits for ourselves of engaging in supervision to support us with our clinical reasoning, practice dilemmas and system challenges. Clinical supervision was of course important in the initial phases of our early careers, but has continued to be essential for our practice even as we’ve become accomplished clinicians.
Our senior Occupational Therapists are experienced clinical supervisors, who’ve completed additional professional development in supervision. We offer supervision to both individuals and groups.
Our clinical interest areas include:
Working with young people experiencing mental health difficulties.
Providing Occupational Therapy interventions to individuals and in therapeutic groups
Supporting neurodivergent young people.
Sensory processing.
Using a systems approach to support young people.
Occupational Therapy assessment – including Functional Assessments
Provision of Focussed Psychology Strategies including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
Our team currently have spaces available for Clinical Supervision throughout 2026. Feel free to reach out to us at hello@socialconfidencecollective.com.au if you’d like to find out more.