Supervision and Mentoring

Yelka is an AHPRA board-approved supervisor with a wealth of therapeutic and assessment experience, supporting primarily adult clients across a wide range of presentations including PTSD, psychosis, bipolar, personality disorders, gender dysphoria/incongruence, eating disorders, OCD, anxiety, ADHD, autism and depression. 

As a supervisor, Yelka offers supervisees a supportive, empowering and inclusive space to develop their professional identity. She draws on her experience to help supervisees bridge the gap between theory and practice, with a strong focus on ethical, accessible and affirming care. In particular, she provides supervision in the following areas:

• Development of telehealth or local solo private practice (including task checklists).
• Using CBT, ERP, DBT, transdiagnostic and adapted therapeutic approaches for a variety of adult presentations.
• Working with clients at different risk levels, with co-occurring conditions and complexities, within the public and/or private sector.
• Comprehensive psychological assessment for the purpose of diagnostic clarification, therapy, funding applications, risk management and/or care coordination.
• Administration and interpretation of standardised psychometric tools and interviews including the WISC, WAIS, WIAT, PAI, DIVA-5 and many others.
• Report writing for the purposes of university programs, internship case reports, client funding applications and psychological assessment.
• Working competently and sensitively with culturally, gender, sexuality, disability, neurodivergent and body shape diverse peoples.
• Navigating professional complexities of working in the public and/or private mental health sector, as well as the disability/NDIS sector (ie. systemic limitations, workload, value conflicts).
• Navigating ethical dilemmas, mandatory report requirements and scope of practice.
• Working towards clinical and professional competencies required for AHPRA psychology registration.

Yelka is available to provide primary or secondary AHPRA board-approved supervision to 5+1 provisional psychologists in a 1:1 or Group Supervision format. She is also available to provide clinical or industry focused supervision for early career psychologists and other mental health professionals (counsellors, therapists, mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, etc) ah-hoc as requested. Available online Australia-wide.