Professional Supervision can be transformative, rejuvenating and restorative.
“For me, in a busy professional and family life, time is limited. My supervision sessions are my only chance to stop, reflect and meaningfully improve my work practice. My meetings are a safe space where I can voice thoughts and concerns and stop to recognize the successes and achievements along the way. I assumed supervision meant someone else would be looking at the way I work but my supervisor seems to ask the right questions to open me up to self-examination of the way I work and how that impacts my clients for better (or worse) and, in turn, my contribution to the wider legal profession. It can be transformative, rejuvenating and restorative. I find it my chance to look at the bigger picture then to focus and explore those issues brought to supervision.”
Law can be a challenging and rewarding career. However, no area of law is immune from heightened emotions, stress, and responsibility. The lawyer shares proximity to people and clients undergoing stressful experiences. Often these traumas take on a successive, cumulative nature and are not one-off events. All practice areas of law take their toll and are manifested to some degree, at some point, by the lawyer.
If the role is to be sustainable, professional supervision would ideally carry on for the duration of the lawyer’s career. Professional supervision should mature and change as the supervisee changes, evolves, and moves through their career.
Deirdre May, originally from Scotland, is an admitted and practising solicitor in rural NSW, Australia of nearly 20 years She is also a trained professional supervisor for lawyers of all ages, stages, and practice areas.
Your ability to participate in supervision is not confined by geography with the options of online or telephone supervision as well as face to face supervision.
✅ Want to know more? DM or email deirdre.eaglesupervision@gmail.com ✅
Sources - testimonial from Supervisee
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