Alison Hood

Group supervision

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

A PACFA and AAOS accredited Supervisor, I aim to serve you and your clients by facilitating warm, trauma informed and culturally responsive group supervision. We collaborate to nurture and sustain our collective wellbeing and vitality while fostering ethical practice and mitigating the risks of vicarious trauma and burnout.

Online supervision group sessions

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

I'm committed to providing affordable group supervision for self-funded early career therapists and for practitioners who are developing their trauma informed practices (PACFA Low Cost Group Supervisor Directory). These warm, collegial open membership sessions (Zoom, max. 6) typically fill up well in advance: you will only see sessions with places available in the booking calendar.

Group supervision in the sand

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Group supervision in the sand

Supervision in the Sand (inner west Sydney, max. 4 members, 2.5hrs): we collaborate to discover new perspectives while playing reflexively with symbols and metaphors in the safe, nonjudgmental container of the sand tray. Empowers bidirectional ('bottom up' and 'top down') mind/body interactions and neural integration. Sandplay experience is not necessary, just enjoy your reflective process!

Key supervisory influences

More sources of information and guidance practices are listed under Resources

Clinical intuition in psychotherapy: The neurobiology of embodied response

"clinicians are guided not only by conscious, explicit dialogues and intellectual investigation, but also by natural flows of emotion, energy, and body-based information—hunches, gut feelings, behavioral impulses. These natural flows are the foundation of clinical intuition, the right-brain means by which therapists perceive and respond to relational patterns and non-conscious signals during psychotherapy." Terry Marks-Tarlow, 2012

Polyvagal Theory

You may wish to review Deb Dana's resources e.g. A beginner's guide to Polyvagal Theory and her YouTube clips e.g. Engaging the rhythm of regulation

Interconnectedness, hope & our human-nature relationship

Cultivating hope through embracing our interconnectedness within the natural world.

"Our values and principles point to who we are and fuel our resilience in the face of adversity, the way weeds come through cracks in concrete."

'Therapy that breaks the heart' in Afuape, T. (2011). Power, resistance and liberation in therapy with survivors of trauma: To have our hearts broken (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi-org.ezproxy.uws.edu.au/10.4324/9780203806401

Etuaptmumk - Two-Eyed Seeing

Etuaptmumk - Two-Eyed Seeing "refers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledges and ways of knowing ... and learning to use both these eyes together, for the benefit of all."

Culturally responsive practice guided by Indigenous Knowledge and Healing Practices

I have learned from, and am guided by, the 8ways pedagogy and protocols, sharing her with grateful thanks to the Peoples in Western NSW.

Collective care, social justice and the Zone of Fabulousness

Trainer Vikki Reynolds believes that if we are able to hold people at the centre of our practice; stay with connection; and resist disconnection and enmeshment, we are more able to resist burnout and create sustainability. "It is our collective ethical obligation as practitioners to bring reasonable hope, a believe-inhope, an embodied hope to our relational work with clients, and not to steal the hope they have." Inspiring believed-in-hope as an ethical position: Vicarious resistance & justice-doing:

Intuition and the body

Working with trauma as a sensory experience I am particularly inspired and informed by the writings of Louis Cozolino, "instincts can be interwoven with rational thought to improve decision making" and Allan N. Schore "left brain understanding of cognitive empathy and right brain, bodily-based emotional empathy"...

Practice guidelines for clinical treatment of complex trauma

Blue Knot Foundation's Practice Guidelines (2019) have been nationally and internationally endorsed..

Attachment, interpersonal neurobiology & emotional regulation

You may wish to listen to the Therapist Uncensored podcast and review the resources including the 'free attachment bundle'.

PACFA's Indigenous Healing Practice Training Standards & Community of Care Guidelines

The Indigenous Healing Practice Training Standards developed by PACFA's College of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Practitioners broadly defines healing as a return to wholeness and restoration of connection and relationships that are central to the wellbeing of individuals, families and extended kinship networks, Elders and the ancestors, communities, and whole of nations. Indigenous Healing Practice emerges from foundations of safety and deep listening and can facilitate self-healing – the return of spirit to its centre, the healing of others, truth-telling and dreaming.

PACFA's Community of Care Guidelines have been shared by the Diversity in Gender, Body, Kinship and Sexuality Interest Group to help members reduce unintended harm to participants from marginalised communities. The Guidelines can be used within a range of contexts including facilitating professional development, group therapy and as participants in group discussion with other therapists.

Alison Hood @insightworks

Accredited Supervisor, Therapist, Coach on Yuin, Jerrinja, Wangal country

"we sense possibilities and open up fields of potential, as if to provide maps to areas of wonder and curiosity" (Marks-Tarlow, 2012)

Group supervision

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Online supervision group sessions

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Group supervision in the sand

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Group supervision in the sand

Key supervisory influences

Group Supervision: Guidelines for our community of practice

Supervisory accreditations

Alison Hood @insightworks

Accredited Supervisor, Therapist, Coach on Yuin, Jerrinja, Wangal country

"we sense possibilities and open up fields of potential, as if to provide maps to areas of wonder and curiosity" (Marks-Tarlow, 2012)

Group supervision

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Online supervision group sessions

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Group supervision in the sand

Let's reflect and explore together with wonder and curiosity...

Group supervision in the sand

Key supervisory influences

Group Supervision: Guidelines for our community of practice

Supervisory accreditations

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