The personal is political.The clinical is systemic.
Social work holds both. Supervision can help us stay connected to our skills, our values, and our commitment to change.
Explore clinical supervision ↗A reflective, accountable practice.
My approach brings cultural humility and social justice into clinical reflection, alongside attention to ethics, documentation, and professional responsibilities.
My supervision approach has been shaped by transformative teachers and frameworks, including:
- Vikki Reynolds, PhD (Supervision of Solidarity): A framework that centres resistance to oppression, honours lived experience, and invites us to see supervision as an act of collective care and justice.
- Kai Cheng Thom (Embodied Conflict Coaching): A somatically informed approach that helps clinicians stay present, grounded, and regulated in the face of conflict, discomfort, and the messy realities of this work.
- Clinical Supervision Handbook (CAMH): A foundational resource that informs my commitment to structured, reflective, and evidence-informed supervision practice.
- Master of Social Work (University of Victoria): A program grounded in decolonization and Indigenous resurgence, committed to undoing social work’s colonial legacies and centring the sovereignty and knowledge systems of Indigenous peoples.
Together, these influences guide me in creating a supervision space where you are supported not just to meet your hours or refine your skills, but to grow into the clinician and advocate you want to be.
Ethical practice as a living commitment
My work is grounded in the Standards of Practice of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, and I practise in accordance with the Social Work and Social Service Work Act, 1998. Ethical practice is a living, breathing commitment. It asks us to show up with humility, curiosity, and a willingness to examine power in all its forms.
What grounds the work
I ask how our work has participated in surveillance, control, and harm, and choose accountability, repair, and community care over punishment. In supervision, mistakes are met with curiosity rather than shame.
I examine how whiteness operates within ourselves, our institutions, and clinical relationships. This means naming power and disrupting norms that uphold racial hierarchy in care.
Gender, race, class, disability, sexuality, and colonialism shape people’s experiences together. I attend to these overlapping systems of power so our clinical work honours the whole person and resists one-size-fits-all answers.
People are the experts in their own lives, including the clients we serve and the clinicians I supervise. I aim to walk alongside you with transparency, humility, and shared power, rather than prescribe a path.
This work can be heavy. Supervision should be a space of restoration as well as reflection, helping you leave more grounded, resourced, and connected to why you chose this work.
Anti-oppression is a daily practice of noticing, unlearning, and reimagining. I am committed to doing this work alongside you.
Wherever you’re starting,
there’s a way forward.
Tell me about your team, your questions, and the change you’re hoping to make.