Jesse is a board approved supervisor under AHPRA for provisional and clinical registrar psychologists. He currently offers supervision via Zoom in individual and group format. Due to the role and requirements, Jesse does not currently offer supervision for psychology internship pathways.
You can get a closer understanding of Jesse’s therapeutic orientations here.
With training across multiple models, he emphasises a fundamental scientist-practitioner approach to embodied, relational, and systems-informed psychotherapy. Jesse aims to develop registrars’ confidence and competence beyond any particular model; growing their general capacity to understand and help bring change with those they work with (i.e., to enhance ‘therapist factors’, which often contribute more to outcomes than therapy model ‘specific factors’).
Jesse views the art and science of clinical practice and supervision as intrinsically related and emphasises the role of playfulness, creativity, and humour with ethical, scholarly, and practical rigour for himself and supervisees. He aims that supervision be a place where vulnerability, flaws, uncertainty, and all other personal elements be welcomed as part of professional growth (from countertransference, to ‘imposter syndrome’ and ‘fee-anxiety’).
Individual Supervision for Clinical Registrars
As a clinical psychology registrar supervisor Jesse sees his role as to support you to develop confidence and competence required for independent practice as a fully qualified endorsed clinical psychologist. This includes deep theoretical knowledge for the ability to be flexible in formulation and treatment according to the complexity and uniqueness of the people you are working with. Scholarly-scientific rigour and sound ethical awareness are also emphasised.
Jesse believes (from experience and theory) that our personal patterns emerge in our professional role and affect the degree of help/hindrance of services for those we work with. As such, individual supervision with him (especially at the registrar level) also has a prominent focus of self-reflexivity, reflective practice, and deliberate practice.
Jesse seeks to facilitate your growth in these areas with a supervisory alliance containing the same relationship qualities as that with clients: trust, compassion, curiosity, genuineness, and (attempted) good humour.
Supervision services are set on a sliding scale from the standard paying fee ($220 + GST).
Group Supervision for Clinical Registrars: Minding Brains and Behaviour in Process Work
There is considerable evidence that therapist factors contribute to outcomes beyond specific ‘ingredients’ of established evidence-based models, and importantly, that such therapist factors can be developed through focussed training and supervision. The aim of this supervision group is to develop the participating registrars’ capacity to identify (and eventually act upon) common (though commonly missed) “pivot points” for therapeutic intervention through attunement to clues such as body language, paralanguage, and co-transference occurring in the process of therapy. That is, how to enhance outcomes through moment-to-moment awareness (inference) of and intervention upon inter-actions with clients.
‘Active inference’ is a theory gaining expansive interest in neuroscience for a unifying explanation of mind, brain, and behaviour as part of the process of life itself. Participants will be provided a simple introductory understanding of the theory as relevant to the process of therapy. Theoretical knowledge will also be summarised regarding common-factors and facilitative interpersonal qualities of therapists, sudden gains outcomes in therapy, attachment theory/mentalization, alliance and transference. Common ‘pivot points’ (both ‘potentials’ and ‘pitfalls’) will then be provided via recordings and anecdotes of Jesse’s own work. Thereon, participants’ own work will be reviewed to develop an “eye and ear” for process pivot points, allowing each moment of the therapy to be its own intervention (under a neuroscientifically-informed relational framework).
Some core therapy models relevant in this supervision are contemporary (evidence-based) psychodynamic models of therapy, but relevance can be drawn to other models familiar to registrars (e.g., CBT, DBT, ACT, IPT). Those oriented to more structured models but interested in developing their process and relational work are indeed welcome to the group, which is predominantly practice oriented rather than educational.
Program structure is 12 sessions of 90 minutes in length, including an introductory and closing session, allowing each registrar to present their work on 2 occasions. The cost is $1020 + GST (payment plans of $85 + GST per session available). Program structure may be revised to group member preferences.
Expressions of interest for 2025 currently being taken*
Those interested in Active Inference for clinical psychology but not supervision can view Jesse’s APS webinar: Applications of active inference to formulation and reflective practice [to clinical psychology].
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