Danielle provides supportive mentoring and supervision services. She uses a strengths-based approach and asks reflective questions to help you to build your confidence and skills in working with complex clients. Danielle shares practical, step-by-step examples that helps you to have a clear and actionable session plan for your clients.
Speech Pathology and Working with Complex Families
MENTORING AND COACHING
Clinical Supervision
Danielle works with individuals looking to up-skill in a specific clinical area or to grow their knowledge base, and with organisations that invest in their therapy staff by providing specialised and comprehensive supervision. Danielle was previously employed as organisation-wide Clinical Mentor, Team Leader and Senior Speech Pathologist at a large National not-for-profit, where she helped build the clinical expertise and self-belief of many newly graduated and experienced speech therapists, occupational therapists and special education teachers.
Danielle loves supporting clinicians to look at the evidence, reflect on their own learnings, build on their strengths and develop their own personal style to support clients and families. Danielle's special interest areas are working with autistic children, social skills, speech sound disorders, language development from infancy to late primary-school and working with vulnerable families.
Danielle has completed the following training in clinical supervision:
- The Strengths-Based Approach to Supervision, Bernadette Glass
- Supervision for Professional Wellbeing, Professor Janet Baker
- Using Supervision to Support Responsive Practice, Ishwari Samarakoon
- Skillbuilding for Workplace Resilience, ECIA
Some of the clinics Danielle has provided clinical supervision for:
Benefits of Group Supervision
- learn from peers with a range of different experiences
- increase your clinical knowledge
- increase your clinical confidence by sharing your learning with others
- gain a community of peers who can support you
- meet your CPD requirements for SPA
The groups format is:
- case discussion, workshops, resources, peer presentations
- personalised support that meets your individual needs
- topic selection and format will be catered to the needs of the group
- small group, maximum 5 speech therapists and the same speechies each time; so that you can get to know each other's strengths
- 75 minutes, fortnightly sessions on Zoom
- $240 for the term (that is $60 per 75 minute session)
All experience level group
12- 1:15pm AEDT (Melbourne time) Thursdays on Zoom
term 1 dates: 20/2, 6/3, 20/3, 3/4
Perfect to complement workplace 1:1 supervision, for sole traders and for speechies that feel they just want more support in their week!
Learn from Danielle Swinnerton, an experienced group facilitator, mentor and speech therapist!
Notes: we require three therapists per group to go ahead
Can't make the time/day this term, join our waiting list and be notified when we open new groups timeslots:
Isla, Box Hill
"Danielle stands apart from other clinical supervisors with her training in adult coaching and collaborative practice.
She is able to provide clinical support while building your ability to self reflect"
Kieran, Brunswick
"Danielle always comes across as a very friendly and approachable supervisor. This allows me the confidence to ask whatever questions I have.
In Danielle’s supervision sessions, you always get the answers to your questions and you feel empowered afterwards"
Carmel, Bendigo
"Danielle asked questions that helped me to look outside the box and problem solve some things I could try moving forward in therapy.
She also shared helpful resources that I could use to support my work moving forward"
Mentoring, Consultation and Coaching
Danielle is available for the following services to speech pathologists, OT's, kinder teachers, key workers or early intervention workers:
ONGOING FORTNIGHTLY OR MONTHLY SUPERVISION
$190 + GST per 60 min session
Available via Telehealth or on-site by negotiation
group mentoring or training for your clinic
We offer workshops, training and courses to support speech therapists and early intervention workers/ key workers. Contact us today about your needs
case consults or joint visits for your clients
Want another set of eyes to help with your client? We offer joint sessions to upskill you as the primary therapist, and provide specialised support to your client.
