About the services for individuals
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In a world rife with mental health clinicians, consultants and coaches, it can be daunting and difficult trying to find who and what you really need.
I’ve kissed my share of frogs in the therapeutic world and so have many of my clients. The winning formula isn’t so much predicated on the model of care as it is on the context that it is founded - a relationship that feels comfortable paired with a communication style that facilitates you feeling supported and safely challenged to explore your inner world.
My supervision and coaching practice is person-centred, which means that the most important part of our interaction is that I am with you, rather than what intervention I use. I also ensure that we think about the systems that inform your lived experience, including family, communities, and the broader society in which we live.
My communication style is uncomplicated and strengths based, and our conversation will reject the common understanding of ‘supervision’ as surveillance, instead imagining the concept of SUPER-vision: an enhanced way of seeing the world with the benefit of a wider perspective and making sense of things together.
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Some relationships are long, and others are brief; it depends largely on the issues involved and the aim of the our engagement. The model of care we follow will be dictated by best practice and your needs, and articulated together as we get to know one another. If you would like to discuss this in a discovery call, we can absolutely do that, although sometimes the journey is clarified as we begin the work together. How it usually goes is that we have a few sessions and the nature and duration of the relationship that we will have becomes clearer.
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If you have known me in another practice setting and know what kind of service you want and need, please feel free to book a session that best suits your needs (see service descriptions below).
If you are unsure, or we have not yet met, please feel free to book a discovery call, or you can call or email me directly. A conversation will elucidate whether I’m the right person to work with you and we will go from there.
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People working in high-stress professions who are navigating interpersonal difficulties and/or difficult workplace cultures and structures
People who are looking to facilitate a shift in being, including articulation of values and identity development
People who have experienced moral injury, trauma and vicarious trauma
People who are looking to optimise their health and wellbeing, and improve self-care practices
People who have experienced oppression and/or discrimination in work or broader society
About the services for organisations
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My collective experience in qualitative research of complex interventions in health practice, university education, and senior consultancy for Government departments has set me up with a sound foundational knowledge of how to develop and deliver interventions for organisations who need a hand with improving culture and the wellbeing of staff.
In a world where so many professions fall into the category of ‘high-stress’, supporting organisations to support their staff, and to build and maintain a culture that includes and champions wellbeing is so important.
What I have witnessed in my work with many organisations is a worrying trend toward assigning 100% of responsibility to individuals to manage their work-based stress with little thought put into what might happen structurally to mitigate workplace stress arising in the first place. In reality, individual wellbeing is a delicate balance between individual and organisational responsibility and in my work with organisations, I try to encourage both.
In my work with organisations, I use a wide variety of contemporary and seminal evidence based practices to inform wellbeing seminars based on client need.
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Imagine if, rather than receiving a generic, off-the-shelf, ho-um wellbeing lecture, you could ask someone to create and deliver a bespoke, evidence based seminar on topics pertaining to mental health and wellbeing for your staff…
Well… Imagine no more. Here I am, and delighted to provide!
A great way to start is for us to have a conversation about what your organisation needs and the industry you are in, and any information you already have about key sources of stress for your organisation and its employees. For example, perhaps you’ve been through something really stressful together (restructure, death of a staff member, conflict), or perhaps you have noticed that the group as a whole is stressed and worn-out, and needing some help with self-care and wellbeing.
I have a range of topics and interventions that I tend to speak about in workshops that I can send out to you to choose from. However, what I most like to do is for us to survey your staff to see what they are interested in, and if there are particular topics or questions that they have. I can address topics of interest with evidence based answers, and tailor the educational seminar to meet your organisation’s needs. If what you are asking for is outside my scope, I’ll be upfront about that. The seminars can be didactic or semi-interactive according to your preference, however I will be upfront in saying that I will not force participation for ethical reasons and because to do so would be in opposition with the ethos of wellbeing.
Frequency and number of seminars is assessed on the basis of need and preference, and the amount of things you want included.
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Please feel free to phone or email me, and we can begin a conversation about how my skill set might be of use for your organisation.
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Public, private and corporate organisations that wish to improve their structure and culture in terms of wellbeing and mental health, and support wellbeing of staff
Organisations that require provision of support and psychological first aid following traumatic events
Organisations that wish to explore how to operationalise principles of trauma-informed care within their structure
Polly’s rates & service descriptions
Therapeutic coaching
Therapeutic coaching is designed for individuals who want to dig deep and grow through their challenges. Ideal for folks who have at least partially integrated their trauma, therapeutic coaching is centred around post-traumatic growth and getting in touch with your wisest, most embodied self. Therapeutic coaching is generally a longer-term process and is held in a psychotherapeutic framework, exploring meaning-making and connections between past, present and future.
This style of therapy is ideal for people who are wanting to make, or are in the process of making or coming to terms with radical changes in their lives. Looking at the omnipresence of endings and beginnings, we explore the continuum of navigating grief and loss, and welcoming all the incumbent feelings as a means to processing and integrating them.
60 mins | $170
Supervision
Supervision is for social work students and/or practitioners who are looking to grow and develop their practice in a supportive space of critical reflection and learning. I am happy to work with individuals independently seeking supervision, with organisations seeking to contract external supervisors, and with universities facilitating field placement for students.
60 mins | $170
Workplace support consultancy and professional coaching
Workplace support consultancy and professional coaching is for people who require a space to reflect on issues that are centred around the workplace - this might be navigating the ethereal idea of work-life balance, navigating organisational culture and structural issues, coping with workplace based trauma, managerial or leadership issues, navigating mental health and illness in the workplace for self or staff, or perhaps even finding the strength to grow into changing your professional direction or career.
60 mins | $170
Public speaking, workshop facilitation and training with organisations
I am a highly experienced and effective public speaker, trainer and educator, in virtual and face-to-face realms. I have many years’ experience in tutoring and lecturing in the university sector, I’ve delivered multiple research papers at conferences, and have extensive experience in providing wellbeing seminars for people working in high-stress, emotionally laborious professions. I can create bespoke seminars for your organisation aimed at enhancing staff wellbeing and the health of your organisation in a trauma-informed way. for more information, please feel free to get in touch.
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Interpersonal skill and communication consultancy
Interpersonal skill and communication consultancy is for those who now realise that this was the fundamental piece of education that they were sorely lacking in their schooling years. I can assist you with up-skilling, and/or working through tricky communication pieces and interpersonal situations in your work or personal life, that leave you feeling unsure of how to progress - such as managing conflict, developing assertion, cultivating active listening and approaching delicate issues and setting interpersonal boundaries.
60 mins | $170
Writing engagements
I have extensive experience in academic writing, opinion blogging and evidence based blogging. The cost is calculated by the length of time predicted to write the piece, the word length and the effort required (e.g. opinion pieces generally require less effort, and evidence based pieces considerably more). I am very interested in contributing to collaborative pieces, especially academic ones.
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Prices are inclusive of GST if GST is applicable
Polly does not accept mental health care plans provided through medicare.
Polly does not provide rebates or discounts for for private health fund members.
Services can be prepaid, or invoices will require settlement no later than one week after the date of service provision.
Services cancelled later than 24 hours prior to the booking time and date will be charged a fee of half the booked service cost.