Supervision Services

Kristina’s background includes extensive work across education systems, homelessness services, family violence, clinical mental health, and child and youth services. She has supported individuals navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and complex mental health challenges.

 

For over 15 years, she worked with adults and young people experiencing homelessness and within alternative education settings in Melbourne’s western suburbs. After relocating to regional Albury-Wodonga, Kristina continued her work across a range of sectors, including post-separation services, family services, family violence and sexual assault support, and clinical mental health settings

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Her experience also includes over 15 years of counselling, alongside roles in teaching, research, and program development. Kristina believes these experiences have shaped her ability to remain steady, compassionate, and non-judgemental when supporting clients experiencing layered adversity and survival stress. They have also deepened her understanding of the importance of safety, community, and navigating external systems and family dynamics that can often become barriers during trauma therapy

 

Qualifications & Accreditations

• Master of Clinical Family Therapy

• Master of Social Work (Qualifying)

• Bachelor of Youth Work

• Diploma of Couple Counselling – Relationships Australia

• Accredited Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner

• Accredited EMDR Practitioner (since 2020)

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) Level 2 Practitioner

• Registered Sandplay and Expressive Therapist

• Polyvagal safe and sound practioner

 

Professional Associations

• PACFA Clinical Psychotherapist and Registered Supervisor

• AASW Mental Health Social Worker and Registered Supervisor

• AAFT – Clinical Family Therapist

• ACRC – Australian College of Relationship Counsellors

• IFS ANZ Practitioner – Mind Beyond, Level 2 Practitioner (2020)

• EMDR Association Accredited Practitioner

• Somatic Experiencing Australia Practitioner – listed on the official Somatic Experiencing International Directory (Peter Levine)

 

Couples Therapy & Systemic Practice

 

Kristina works from a systemic lens, supporting practitioners and clients to understand:

• Transgenerational trauma and relational patterns

• Attachment dynamics and relational “ledger” patterns

• The impact of family systems across generations

 

She is trained in a range of leading couples therapy models, including:

• Relational Life Therapy (RLT – Terry Real)

• IFS Couples Therapy (“Intimacy from the Inside Out”)

• The Gottman Method

• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

• Somatic approaches to couples therapy

• Family Therapy

• Family constellations

 

Her work is grounded in the belief that connection, community, and relational repair are central to healing and recovery. She also believes that when working with children and adolescents, therapeutic work must remain systemic and family-informed.

 

Professional Experience

 

Kristina brings extensive experience across:

• Clinical mental health and hospital settings

• Family violence and sexual assault services

• Post-separation and family services

• Education and youth-focused environments

• Homelessness and community sector case management

• Regional and metropolitan practice settings

 

She has worked extensively across Melbourne’s western suburbs, supporting individuals and families navigating:

• Trauma and complex trauma

• Anxiety, depression, and PTSD

• Neurodivergence

• survival stress, and layered adversity

 

Kristina also offers clinical supervision for psychotherapists, social workers, and family therapists.

 

Philosophy

 

Having worked in the community sector for over 30 years, and in private practice for the past 7 years, Kristina has developed a broad range of professional experience, clinical knowledge, and therapeutic approaches. This allows her to work flexibly and collaboratively with clients, both individually and relationally.

  

She holds a strong belief that therapists must continually engage in their own inner work in order to practise ethically and effectively support others. Clinical supervision is an essential part of this process.

 

Her supervision offers:

• A reflective, relational, and trauma-informed space

• Support to deepen self-awareness and clinical insight

• Exploration of countertransference and therapist use of self

• Integration of systemic, somatic, and evidence-based approaches

• Guidance with complex presentations and ethical practice

 

What’s Offered

 

Kristina provides supervision for counsellors and practitioners working in both private practice and community settings, including:

• Individual supervision

• Small group supervision

• Online and in-person sessions

• Tailored support for early-career through to experienced counsellors

 

Enquiries & Bookings

 

Please get in touch to discuss your supervision needs or arrange an initial consultation.

 

Supervision that supports not only what you do — but who you are in the work.