Clinical Supervision Services

A Secure Base and Safe Haven for Clinicians

Supporting parents, infants and families can be deeply rewarding, complex and emotionally demanding. Clinical supervision offers a space to strengthen your skills and confidence, explore clinical challenges and feel supported in the work you do.

My approach to supervision is grounded in attachment theory and the importance of having both a Secure Base from which to explore, learn and grow, and a Safe Haven to return to when the work feels difficult.

A collaborative space to strengthen your clinical practice, including:

• Harnessing opportunities to support meaningful change with parents, infants and families.
• Bringing together integrated ways of understanding and responding to parents' and infants' emotional needs.
• Strengthening case conceptualisation and treatment planning through attachment, schema and nervous system perspectives.
• Building confidence in applying attachment-focused and schema-focused interventions in everyday clinical practice.
• Developing a collection of practical therapeutic tools and resources to support your work with families.
• Exploring complex presentations, clinical challenges and different approaches to intervention.

Working closely with families can touch our own hearts and emotional needs. Supervision offers a supportive space to:

• Explore the harder parts of clinical work, including complexity, uncertainty and challenging experiences.
• Reflect on the moments and stories that touch our hearts and stay with us.
• Recognise how our own histories, experiences and emotional needs may be activated through our work.
• Find ways to care for your own emotional needs while holding the needs of the families you support.
• Feel heard, understood and supported as you navigate the emotional demands of clinical practice.

A Secure Base and Safe Haven for Learning, Reflection and Connection

Group clinical supervision offers an opportunity to strengthen your clinical skills, share experiences and connect with other clinicians who understand the rewards and challenges of supporting parents, infants and families.

Facilitated by Symon Oliveri, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Perinatal and Trauma Therapist and Clinical Supervisor, groups draw on nearly 20 years of clinical experience and specialist training in attachment, schema and trauma-informed approaches.

A collaborative space to:

• Explore complex cases and learn from different clinical perspectives.
• Strengthen attachment-informed and schema-focused case conceptualisation and treatment planning.
• Build confidence in supporting parents' and infants' core emotional needs.
• Explore practical interventions, therapeutic tools and resources that can be integrated into everyday practice.
• Share clinical knowledge, questions and experiences with other clinicians.

Working closely with families can touch our own hearts and emotional needs. Group supervision provides space to:

• Reflect on the harder parts of clinical work, including uncertainty and challenging experiences.
• Recognise how our own histories and emotional needs can influence our work.
• Feel understood and supported by colleagues who share similar professional experiences.
• Consider how to care for our own emotional needs while holding the needs of the families we support.

My supervision draws on attachment theory, schema therapy, Circle of Security and nervous system perspectives, alongside my experience developing the Integrated Core Needs Approach.

Group discussions may explore how these perspectives can be brought together to understand the needs beneath presenting difficulties and identify opportunities for meaningful change.

Groups may include structured professional development, case discussion, reflective practice and opportunities to explore practical therapeutic resources.

Some groups focus on particular areas of practice, such as attachment-focused interventions, while others provide a broader space for ongoing clinical supervision and professional connection.

I'm Symon Oliveri, an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Perinatal and Trauma Therapist, Clinical Supervisor and Founder of Contigo Child and Family.

With 20 years of experience supporting children, parents and families.My professional experience spans perinatal and infant mental health, child and family therapy, trauma, child protection and complex family circumstances, including work across Australia and internationally.
My qualifications and professional development include:

• Master of Social Work and Bachelor of Social Science.
• Diploma of Youth Work and Community Services.
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
• Clinical supervision training and participation in the Gidget Foundation's Supervision Development Program for Perinatal Supervision.
• Extensive professional training in attachment-focused, schema-focused, trauma-informed and somatic therapeutic approaches, including Circle of Security, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Theraplay and Schema Therapy.

I bring together this clinical experience, ongoing professional learning and a collaborative approach to supervision that recognises the knowledge, skills and experiences you already bring to your work.

I am also the developer of the Integrated Core Needs Approach, which brings together attachment theory, schema therapy, Circle of Security and nervous system perspectives through a shared focus on core emotional needs.

The approach was developed to help clinicians keep the needs of parents and infants at the centre of their work, particularly when families are navigating complex and changing circumstances.

Within supervision, we can explore how this integrated understanding may support your existing practice, including:

- Recognising the needs beneath presenting difficulties.
- Understanding how schemas, Inner Critic messages and Protective Coping Responses may create barriers to meeting those needs.
- Integrating attachment and schema perspectives into case conceptualisation and therapeutic intervention.
- Using visual frameworks, parent resources and therapeutic tools to support collaborative work with families.

You do not need to be trained in the Integrated Core Needs Approach to access clinical supervision. Supervision is tailored to your professional experience, clinical interests and the families you support.