Wellbeing | Supervision

Supervision

Supporting workers in a culturally safe way

Yamurrah has been providing supervision services for 20 years and offers both clinical and cultural supervision to both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal workers.  All supervision sessions are provided by First Nations clinicians who are trauma-informed and hold a relevant qualifications Social Work, Psychology or Human Services.

All Supervision sessions are guided by Yamurrah’s of connection, integrity, empowerment, humility, social justice and safety. These values are also consistent with the Australian Social Work Association values and ethics code.

Supervision Alliance: Our Ways
Yamurrah provides supervision services nationwide, and we take great pride in establishing a national alliance of First Nations Supervisors. This self-determined alliance brings together our unique ways of providing supervision. Our alliance gathered on Bundjalung Country to discuss the Alliance and our philosophy of care. We are excited to share our findings through a journal article in the near future. This initiative is the first of its kind, representing a national collaboration focused on cultural supervision.

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Clinical and Cultural Supervision for Aboriginal Workers

Our cultural supervision offers a space for you to reflect on your practice and importantly provides cultural context which is often a critical component that is not available in mainstream supervision.

All our supervisors are First Nations clinicians – we will work with you in ways that support you. Online and face to face sessions are all options.

We offer clinical supervision to enhance your professional development, in a culturally reflexive way. This may be helpful to allied health professionals, trauma specialists, counsellors or those working with children, young people or adult survivors of complex and/or collective trauma.

Clinical and Cultural Supervision for non-Aboriginal Workers

We offer clinical supervision to enhance your professional development, in a culturally reflexive way. This may be helpful to allied health professionals, trauma specialists, counsellors or those working with children, young people or adult survivors of complex and/or collective trauma.

If you are not Aboriginal but are a clinician, practitioner, manager or policy advisor working specifically with Aboriginal people or communities, – you should really being getting cultural supervision.  How would you know your practise is culturally responsive or relevance without that? We highly recommend you consider this if you are not already doing so.

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Group Supervision

Yamurrah can provide group supervision sessions for your workplace. This can be for a specific purpose or on a regular basis.

Regular supervision has many benefits for teams. It give you a space to reflect on your work together, discuss complex case matters, share ideas and information and consider strength based strategies that can enhance your teamwork and individual practice.

Specific group supervision uses may be where members of the same workplace have a collective experience, such as the loss of staff member, or have experienced a change in management. It may assist with managing complex conversations and working towards a shared vision or it could be about discussing the achievements of the service.

In larger groups, more than one supervisor may be required to maintain safety. It is recommended that group supervision sessions are held for approximately 1.5 to 2 hours.

Alternate to EAP Service

Yamurrah provide wellbeing and clinical sessions on request. We have a very experienced clinical team – who are culturally and professionally diverse that can support you. These sessions are confidential, your sacred yarning space is important and we will work alongside you with cultural frameworks and clinical care and integrity.

We provide an alternate to EAPS service with a number of our partners including:

  • Department of Premier and Cabinet
  • Parliament of NSW
  • Aboriginal Affairs
  • Aboriginal Language Trust
  • University of Technology
  • University of NSW
  • Legal Aid NSW
  • Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Medical Service
  • And more….

We also provide wellbeing and clinical sessions through our probono portfolio for those who are not supported for sessions through their workplace – for further information please click on RISE.

Individual, family and group counselling

Yamurrah can provide individual, couples and family counselling. We can work with you on trauma recovery, drug and or alcohol addictions, grief or loss or anything that may be troubling you. Our qualified Counsellors have extensive experience and can provide a safe, connected and empowering service to you.

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A significant proportion of our counselling services are offered to you probono or with a medicare rebate.

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Group work with children, adolescents and adults

Yamurrah also runs groups with children and adolescents, families and communities. We can provide this service on request and runs groups in a one of basis or over a period of time.

Supervision | Wellbeing Session Request Form

Use this form to request a supervision or wellbeing session

Do you identify as Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander or both?(Required)
Type of Session Required and who is this for?(Required)
Requirements for the supervision you would like to recieve eg. gender, specialised sector knowledge on particular issue, a supervisor of a particular generation ie.grandmother, Elder, Clinical/Cultural or both. This helps us connect you with the person with the most appropriate skills, knowledges and experiences to support your professional development.
Preferred Connection(Required)
For large organisations, please advise your department / division / team
Organisation Agreement With Yamurrah
Prior to session commencement, an organisation agreement needs to be in place. If there isn't, we can facilitate that for you. Please provide the authorising manager contact details to organise this.
Examples of information you could provide: The work you do, your professional interests, your goals for supervision or anything else you want to tell us about who you are or specific needs you might have.
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Wellbeing | Counselling Session Request Form

Use this form to request a wellbeing | counselling session

Your Name(Required)
Do you identify as Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander or both?
Do you identify as Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander or both?
Type of Session Required and who is this for?*
Type of Session Required and who is this for?(Required)
Requirements for the session you would like to recieve eg. gender, specialised sector knowledge on particular issue, a clinician of a particular generation ie.grandmother, Elder, Clinical/Cultural or both. This helps us connect you with the clinician with the most appropriate skills, knowledges and experiences to support you.
One-off, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly - or another that suits your requirements.
Preferred Connection
Preferred Connection
Examples of information you could provide: Your goals for the session or anything else you want to tell us or specific needs you might have.
Organisation Agreement With Yamurrah

Organisation Information

This section is only required if the wellbeing sessions is being supported by your manager/organisation i.e alternate EAP, part of professional development, supported by HR.
Organisation Agreement With Yamurrah
Prior to session commencement, an organisation agreement needs to be in place. If there isn't, we can facilitate that for you. Please provide the authorising manager contact details to organise this.
For large organisations, please advise your department / division / team
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
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