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As a queer, neurodivergent social worker with chronic illness and fluctuating capacity, Shelley brings both professional and lived experience to supervision.

 

Her approach provides space for reflection, curiosity, problem-solving and figuring out what actually works for you and the people you support.

 

Shelley's supervision is neuro-affirming, strengths-based and grounded in the belief that sustainable practice shouldn't require you to work against your brain, body or values.

Supervision for Social Work Graduates & Early-Career Practitioners

1) Neurodivergent Graduates & Early-Career Practitioners

Starting out in social work can involve navigating new professional expectations, systems, workloads and identities – all while figuring out how to practise in a way that is sustainable for your own brain and body.

 

Supervision can provide a space to understand your strengths and needs as a neurodivergent practitioner, develop ways of working that suit you and build confidence in your emerging professional identity.

 

Possible supervision topics include:

  • Executive functioning, admin and documentation

  • Workload, energy and fluctuating capacity

  • Sensory needs and workplace accommodations

  • Disclosure and self-advocacy

  • Masking and professional expectations

  • Burnout prevention and sustainable practice

  • Boundaries and communication styles

  • Professional identity and confidence

  • ‘Use of self’ and lived experience

  • Finding systems and ways of working that suit your brain

  • Reflecting on cases, challenges and ethical dilemmas

  • Legal and professional standards

  • Theory-to-practice application and skill development

2) Practitioners Developing Neuro-Affirming Practice

For graduates and early-career practitioners who want to develop or deepen their neuro-affirming practice.

 

Supervision provides a reflective space to think critically about traditional approaches, recognise ableism and neuronormativity within practice, and explore how neuro-affirming principles can translate into everyday work with clients.

 

Possible supervision topics include:

  • Understanding neuro-affirming practice

  • Moving beyond deficit-based approaches

  • Recognising ableism and neuronormativity

  • Neuro-affirming communication

  • Sensory and executive functioning needs

  • Supporting autonomy and self-determination

  • Understanding behaviour in context

  • Avoiding the reinforcement of masking

  • Adapting therapeutic and practice approaches

  • Reflecting on cases, challenges and ethical dilemmas

  • Legal and professional standards

  • Theory-to-practice application and skill development

Supervision for Support Workers

1) Neurodivergent Support Workers

Support work can be rewarding, but it can also involve significant emotional, sensory, social and executive functioning demands.

 

Supervision offers a dedicated reflective space to explore your work while also considering your needs as a neurodivergent worker. Together, we can identify ways to make your role more manageable, sustainable and aligned with your strengths.

 

Possible supervision topics include:

  • Executive functioning and organisation

  • Sensory and communication needs

  • Energy and fluctuating capacity

  • Boundaries with participants and families

  • Emotional load and burnout prevention

  • Workplace accommodations and disclosure

  • Masking and professional expectations

  • Confidence and professional identity

  • Navigating challenging situations

  • Building sustainable ways of working

  • Reflecting on ethical or practice dilemmas

2) Support Workers Developing Neuro-Affirming Practice

For support workers who want to develop their understanding of neurodivergence and provide support that is genuinely neuro-affirming, person-led and respectful of individual autonomy.

Supervision provides space to reflect on your practice, explore challenges and think critically about how support can empower neurodivergent people rather than unintentionally encouraging compliance or masking.

 

Possible supervision topics include:

  • Neuro-affirming and person-led support

  • Communication differences

  • Sensory and executive functioning needs

  • Autonomy, choice and self-determination

  • Understanding behaviour in context

  • Recognising and avoiding masking

  • Moving away from compliance-based approaches

  • Boundaries and relationship dynamics

  • Power within support relationships

  • Reflecting on ethical or practice dilemmas

Supervision for Neurodivergent Business Owners

Running a business or private practice gives us the opportunity to create work that suits our brains – but being responsible for all the things can also place enormous demands on executive functioning.

 

This supervision is for neurodivergent practitioners, helping professionals and business owners who want to build a business that is sustainable for their brain, body, capacity and life.

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Rather than trying to make yourself fit conventional ideas about productivity or entrepreneurship, we can explore how to design your business around the way you actually work.

 

Possible supervision topics include:

  • Executive functioning and business admin

  • Creating systems that reduce cognitive load

  • Workload, scheduling and capacity

  • Managing competing priorities

  • Automation and assistive technology

  • Boundaries and sustainable client loads

  • Burnout and boom-and-bust cycles

  • Designing services around your strengths

  • Marketing in ways that feel manageable and authentic

  • Building a business that supports the life you want

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This isn't about finding the one "right" way to run a business. It's about experimenting, problem-solving and creating systems and ways of working that are sustainable for you.

Supervision for Professionals Exploring a New Neurodivergent Identity

Discovering or beginning to understand your neurodivergence can change the way you make sense of yourself at work — including things you've previously understood as personal weaknesses, difficulties or things you simply needed to "try harder" at.

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This supervision provides a space to explore your emerging neurodivergent identity and consider what it means for the way you work. Together, we can identify your strengths, needs and patterns, experiment with different ways of working, and begin adapting your work to fit your brain rather than continually adapting yourself to fit the workplace.

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Possible supervision topics include:

  • Exploring your emerging neurodivergent identity

  • Reframing past and current work experiences

  • Identifying strengths, needs and working patterns

  • Understanding executive functioning and sensory needs

  • Recognising masking and its impact

  • Exploring internalised ableism and neuronormative expectations

  • Disclosure and deciding what you want others to know

  • Identifying and requesting workplace accommodations

  • Energy, capacity and burnout

  • Developing new systems and ways of working

  • Boundaries, communication and self-advocacy

  • Building a more sustainable relationship with work

Cost & funding options

Supervision fee: $190 per hour


There are a few different ways you may be able to pay for supervision:

pay privately

You can choose to pay for supervision privately, without involving your employer or another funding body. This may be a good option if you're seeking supervision independently, want additional supervision alongside workplace supervision, or would prefer to keep your supervision separate from your workplace.

Workplace-Funded Supervision

Your employer may be willing to pay for some or all of your supervision as part of your professional development or workplace support. If you're interested in workplace-funded supervision, you can talk with your employer about whether external supervision or professional development funding is available to you.

JobAccess Employment Assistance Fund

​If you're neurodivergent and/or have a disability that impacts you at work, you may be eligible for workplace supports through the Employment Assistance Fund (EAF) provided through JobAccess. The EAF can fund a range of workplace adjustments, equipment and support services for eligible employees and self-employed people. Depending on your circumstances and the purpose of supervision, you may wish to speak with JobAccess about whether funding is available to support your needs at work. Want to explore this option? You can contact JobAccess or visit their Employment Assistance Fund information page to learn more about eligibility and what supports may be funded: https://www.jobaccess.gov.au/i-am-a-person-with-disability/looking-applying-job/government-services-help-you/funding-workplace-changes/what-eaf

Contact us

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If you have any questions or want to make a booking you can:
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- email us at admin@diverseandthriving.com.au

- text or call 0468 102 535

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