Advanced Training in Professional Supervision
Six-Month Supervisor Certificate Course

Build the confidence, judgement, and reflective capacity to supervise with clarity, steadiness, and ethical depth across the helping professions.

Who This Course Is For

This course is designed for experienced practitioners in the helping and service professions who are ready to step into a supervisor role or who want to strengthen and refine their existing supervisory practice, including:

• Psychotherapists, counsellors, mental health professionals
• Allied health practitioners
• Chaplains, pastoral care workers
• Educators

Why Supervision Matters

High-quality supervision supports supervisees to develop better clinical thinking, stronger professional identity, and more grounded ethical practice. Through reflection, case discussion, modelling and feedback, supervision supports the integration of knowledge, skill and lived clinical experience. It is not simply oversight, but a sustained developmental process.

What Participants Gain

Training supervisors develop the capacity to deepen their reflective practice, foster collaborative supervisory relationships, remain steady in complex situations, and exercise appropriate authority in their supervisory role. The result is more effective supervision, stronger support for supervisees, and improved outcomes for clients. The training builds the capacity to supervise with presence, balance, accountability, and professional maturity.

A Trusted Provider of Supervisor Development

Since 2009, SupervisionWA has supported the development of supervisors throughout WA, through immersive training that offers a robust, transferable supervision framework, relevant to helping professions, agencies, private practice, and training settings. Over 63 formal training hours across six months, participants integrate theory, experiential learning, and reflective practice to build confidence and capability as supervisors.

Grounded in reflective, relational and developmental supervision models, the course emphasises the supervisory relationship as central to learning and professional growth.

Key Outcomes

• Greater confidence in the supervisory role
• A grounded understanding of supervision models
• Stronger reflective capacity and ethical decision-making
• Increased capacity to hold complexity in the supervisory role
• A practical framework for supervision across settings

Ready to Deepen Your Supervision Practice?

If you are ready to step into supervision or to strengthen the way you already supervise, this course offers a clear, rigorous, and practice-grounded pathway.