Professional supervision

Professional supervision

Professional supervision is a confidential, reflective space to strengthen safe, ethical practice and sustain your work over time. It may involve management, seeking advice and meeting personal needs.

Where Spiritual Direction, in the main, is a sharing of one’s spiritual life and encounter with God in prayer, professional supervision is a structured conversation about your work. It gives you a place to bring real cases, dilemmas and questions, and to reflect on them with a trained supervisor.

Supervision is particularly helpful to counsellors, spiritual directors, clergy, chaplains and others in care-focused roles to stay grounded, accountable and well. It is often a professional or organisational requirement and can be helpful with issues that arise during spiritual direction.

To prepare for supervision it can help to bring a recent situation, theme or question from your work life noticing where you felt stretched, stuck, enlivened or uneasy. This will enable you to be ready to look at both the theme or question and its impact on you.

Supervision is recommended monthly or by arrangement and lasts for 60 minutes.

Conversations are private, with standard exceptions where disclosure is required by law or where there is serious risk of harm.

Pā Maria offers this service in person rather than over the internet.