As a registered nurse and counsellor, I want to ensure supervision includes reflection on health (in)equity and access and the ways health professionals can contribute towards people’s right to health. I identify as Pākehā on a tangata te Tiriti learning journey.

After decades of clinical practice, I moved to an academic role. My supervision practice is shaped by my years working as a narrative therapist. Narrative approaches are interested in how individual and institutional power shape what’s possible for people to say, do and have. In my supervision sessions, I draw from a critically reflective approach, which encourages a deep curiosity, especially about everyday taken-for-granted practices. I also draw from learning theories, including transformative learning theory, because I’m interested in change processes that shake loose set views and enable us to see different perspectives.

Ethically I’m particularly interested in social justice; encouraging practitioners to reflect on equitable and culturally safe practices in their service. A humanistic caring approach also shapes my supervision.

In the pressure and chaos of contemporary health care, supervision can be a place for supervisees to pause, rest, and reflect in a restorative way, and connect to the values that drew the supervisee to their work in the first place.