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Neurodiversity-Affirming Supervision

Supervision & Support for clinicians who are Neurodivergent or Neurodivergent-Affirming, at all stages of your career. 

If you are interested in booking a supervision appointment with our team at Very Helpful Chats, please complete our supervision waitlist form, or email us at admin@veryhelpfulchats.com.au

You deserve supervision that gets you

At Very Helpful Chats, we offer supervision that is collaborative, affirming, shame-free and genuinely useful- whether you’re a neurodivergent clinician seeking support with clinical matters or workplace issues, or a mental health professional who wants to upskill in working with neurodivergent clients.

We provide supervision that:

  • Is culturally safe for neurodivergent clinicians who have experienced being misunderstood

  • Affirms neurodivergent ways of thinking, working and processing

  • Supports clinicians working with Autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, PDA and otherwise ND clients

  • Recognises the value of empirical evidence, practice-based knowledge and lived experience

  • Makes room for doubt, messiness, and being a real human

Our Supervisors

Nicolle Griffin
Nicolle Griffin

Director of Very Helpful Chats and Registered Psychologist

Supervision fee: $330 per 50 minutes.

  • Available for supervision for mental health professionals at all stages of career development

  • Not available for board-approved supervision as part of the 5+1 or 4+2 internship programs. 

  • Supervision topics: neurodivergency, Autism, ADHD, assessment of Autism and ADHD, differential diagnosis in assessment of Autism and ADHD, therapy with Autistic + ADHD clients, business things.

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Beth McNamara

Senior Registered Psychologist

Supervision fee: $270 per 50 minutes.

  • Available for supervision for mental health professionals at all stages of career development

  • Available to provide Psychology Board Approved Supervision for psych interns completing the 5+1 and 4+2 programs.

  • Supervision topics: neurodivergency, Autism, ADHD, working with neurodivergent kids and teens, building collaborative relationships with parents and other members of multi-disciplinary teams, working with LGBTIQA+ and gender-diverse teenagers

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Anna Aminov

Senior Clinical Psychologist

Supervision fee: $300 per 50 minutes.

  • Endorsement in Clinical Psychology

  • Available to provide secondary Psychology Board Approved Supervision for psych interns completing the 5+1, 4+2 and psychs completing the registrar program in clinical psychology (not available for primary supervision at this time).

  • Available for supervision for mental health professionals at all stages of career development

  • Supervision topics: neurodivergency, Autism, ADHD, assessment of Autism and ADHD, using the MIGDAS assessment tool, working with 2E (gifted) clients, EMDR with neurodivergent clients, providing assessments and therapy to other health professionals, trauma in past supervisory relationships, content vs process work in therapy.

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Kim Eldridge

Senior Occupational Therapist

Supervision fee: $270 per 50 minutes.

  • Available for supervision for occupational therapists and allied health professionals at all stages of career development

  • Supervision topics: neurodivergency, sensory profiles, functional capacity assessments, working with kids and teens, executive functioning, capacity building, understanding and working within the NDIS.

Who we supervise

  • Provisional psychologists completing 4+2, 5+1

  • Early-career and fully registered psychologists

  • Psychologists completing their clinical registrar program

  • OTs seeking support developing their skills working with neurodivergent clients

  • Mental health and allied health clinicians of all relevant disciplines - counsellors, social workers etc.

  • Professionals working with neurodivergent clients who want to deepen their knowledge and increase their confidence

  • Clinicians navigating burnout, late diagnosis, identity, or transition

You don’t need to be neurodivergent to benefit from neurodivergent-informed supervision- you just need to care about improving your skills and confidence working with neurodivergent people.
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