Clinical Supervision

IFS Clinical Supervision – Melbourne & Online Australia-Wide

You know that part of you who is organised, ethical, and always ready with a colour-coded folder of resources?

Great news it’s welcome in supervision.

So is the part that second guesses every clinical decision. The one still replaying that session from three Tuesdays ago. And yes, even the part that dreams about quitting, moving to the mountains, and starting a pottery studio.

IFS clinical supervision isn’t about showing up with your “competent clinician” part front and centre. It’s about creating a safe, collaborative space where all your parts can be seen, heard, and gently explored. Especially the ones that usually don’t get invited to supervision meetings.

What IFS Supervision Looks Like

In Internal Family Systems-informed supervision, we:

  • Make space for the parts of you activated by your clients (hello, inner rescuer and not-good-enough part)

  • Explore protective parts that show up in the room yours and your client’s

  • Unblend from the parts that feel solely responsible for “fixing” and reconnect to your Self: the part of you that leads with compassion, clarity, and calm

  • Notice patterns, polarisations, and legacy burdens without shame or pathologising

Supervision becomes less about ticking compliance boxes (though we do that too) and more about fostering self-leadership, reflective practice, and sustainable emotional presence in your work.

Who Is IFS Supervision For?

IFS-informed supervision is ideal for:

  • Therapists, social workers, psychologists, and counsellors trained in or integrating Internal Family Systems Therapy into their practice

  • Practitioners working with complex trauma, addictions, eating disorders, relational wounding, or high-activation clients

  • Clinicians wanting more than a compliance checkbox seeking to feel seen, supported, and respectfully challenged

  • Helpers navigating burnout, discouragement, or workplace systems that clash with their internal values

  • Professionals curious about parts language, inner systems, and working from a non-pathologising framework

What We Might Explore Together

In an IFS supervision space, we might:

  • Map your internal system as it relates to client work

  • Explore parts that carry fear around competency, visibility, failure, or “not doing enough”

  • Practice accessing Self-energy in clinical decision-making

  • Navigate ethical dilemmas with support from both your inner and outer systems

  • Get curious about the IFS triangle (Manager, Firefighter, Exile) in the therapist–client dynamic

  • Notice how your own protectors show up around risk, responsibility, and relational rupture

Some days, we may simply acknowledge that part of you is exhausted, another part is trying so hard, and another would rather be at the dog park or in a bubble bath. They are all welcome here.

Why IFS Supervision Works

IFS supervision isn’t therapy, but it is deeply therapeutic. It honours your humanity while strengthening your clinical wisdom.

It’s a place to reconnect with your Self, not just as a practitioner, but as a person holding complex, meaningful, and often emotional work.

If your inner system is asking for more space, less judgment, and a supervision experience where you don’t have to wear the “I’ve got it all together” mask, you’re in the right place.

Let’s meet your system with curiosity, compassion, and maybe even a laugh or two along the way.

Melbourne-based therapist using Internal Family Systems