Supervision for Professionals

Working with PDA

Supporting PDA individuals and families requires unique skills, insights, and approaches that foster trust, autonomy, and understanding. Whether you're an educator, therapist, allied health professional, or social worker, navigating the complexities of PDA can be challenging.

Kristy’s supervision sessions provide a confidential, judgement free, reflective space to enhance your practice, deepen your understanding, and find solutions to your most pressing challenges.

With over three decades of experience working with and supporting PDA individuals and families, Kristy brings lived experience, professional expertise, and a neuroaffirming, trauma-informed lens to every session.

Kristy is also a PDA autistic person with ADHD, allowing her to share personal insights across the lifespan.

Having supported professionals across Australia and internationally, Kristy tailors supervision to your specific needs, equipping you with practical strategies and deeper insights into PDA.

What Supervision Includes:

Case Guidance: Discuss complex cases and receive actionable insights to better support PDA individuals and their families.
Reflective Practice: Explore your approach, assumptions, and strategies in a collaborative and non-judgmental setting.
Practical Tools: Learn neuroaffirming, trauma-informed methods to reduce conflict, build trust, and create meaningful progress.
Knowledge Building: Gain clarity on PDA characteristics and equity seeking behaviour, deepen your understanding of demands, explore relational safety, and effective ways to foster autonomy, and more.

Who Is Supervision For?

Educators navigating the challenges of demand-avoidant students in school settings.
Therapists and Allied Health Professionals working with PDA individuals seeking neuroaffirming, person-centered approaches.
Social Workers and Advocates supporting PDA families through complex and often high-stakes situations.

How Supervision Works:

Flexible Formats: One-on-one or group supervision tailored to your needs.
Convenient Delivery: Sessions available online, making them accessible no matter where you’re located.
Session Length: 60-90 minutes in order to offer a flexible, relaxed space without rushing.
Frequency: One off or monthly options to suit your schedule.

Investment:

One-on-One Supervision: $250 AUD per session (includes 60-90 minute session and follow up notes and resources where appropriate and necessary).
Group Supervision: Starting at $500 AUD per session (up to 6 participants).
Sliding scale available for underfunded sectors, please email [email protected] to discuss

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Kristy's qualifications and most recent professional development include:

Qualifications:

BA (Politics & Culture | Literature Film & Art)

Grad Dip Education P-12 (Middle Years Disengagement Specialisation)

Grad Dip. Psychological Sciences (Currently Studying)

Master Counselling & Psychotherapy (Currently Studying)

Recent Professional Development:

Trauma Responsive Leadership - Organisational Practice (Blue Knot)

Dadirri - Ancient Aboriginal Mindfulness for self care and self enquiry (We Al-li)

Trauma Responsive Leadership - Self as Leader (Blue Knot)

102: Recreating the Circle of Wellbeing - Self and Community Care Assessment (We Al-li)

Tuning into Kids Facilitation (Mindful - Centre For Training & Research In Development Health)

Working with Traumatised Children (Australian Childhood Foundation)

Understanding Anxiety & Depression in Children (Connections Uniting Care)

Trauma Responsive Practice in Education (Australian Childhood Foundation)

Loss and Grief - A Return to Wholeness (We Al-li) and more.

Dissociation and DID: The Fundamentals - Carolyn Spring

Learn more about Kristy here

Why This Matters

PDA individuals and their families often fall through the cracks of conventional systems. As professionals, the opportunity to learn, grow, and refine your approach can be transformational for the people you support and for your own confidence and satisfaction in your work.

Let’s Work Together

Ready to enhance your skills and gain clarity in your work with PDA? Book a supervision session with Kristy today, or get in touch to discuss how Kristy can best support your professional needs.