Axis Clinic offers clinical supervision as well as events and workshops designed specifically to support health care professionals and carers.
In addition to the areas outlined below, we can provide tailored solutions to suit your learning or support need.
Youth worker and case management workshops
- Supporting Adolescents who self-harm
- Emerging Borderline Personality Disorder in young people
- Understanding and responding to self-harm in young people
- Understanding and responding to Suicidal risk in young people
- Understanding sexual abuse and sexualised behaviour
- Trauma and Attachment
Foster and kinship carer workshops
- Understanding sexual abuse and sexualised behaviour
- Trauma and Attachment
- Understanding and responding to self-harm in young people
Clinical Supervision
Axis Clinic offers a safe and reflective opportunity for therapists, youth workers and case workers to think about their work and their personal and professional responses to work. Our supervision includes general professional development, supervision for registrar programs, secondary consultations and facilitating group/ peer sessions.
Please see our brochure here, and reach out to admin@axisclinic.com.au if you would like more information or to schedule supervision sessions.
Clinical Supervision for BPD, Self-Harm Risk and DBT Group Therapy
Axis offers clinical supervision for clinicians and support workers working with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), self-harm risk, suicidality, complex trauma, and DBT group therapy.
This supervision is designed for psychologists, counsellors, social workers, support workers, and other mental health clinicians who want to build confidence and depth in their work with clients presenting with emotional dysregulation, interpersonal instability, trauma histories, self-harm, suicidality, and complex relational patterns.
Our approach combines practical DBT principles with psychodynamic ideas and a psychological, trauma-informed understanding of BPD. We focus not only on skills and structure, but also on formulation, the therapeutic relationship, risk management, boundaries, clinician confidence, and sustainability in the work.
Starting or running a DBT group can be rewarding, meaningful, and exciting. It can also bring therapeutic challenges, including managing group dynamics, responding to self-harm risk, holding boundaries, and preventing clinician burnout. Supervision provides a reflective and practical space to support clinicians to feel more grounded, skilled, and supported in this complex area of practice.
We can also provide practical DBT group resources, including group rules, intake proformas, meeting agendas, and structure options.
Clinicians can book individual supervision sessions or express interest in upcoming group supervision options.
The group supervision is facilitated by Carolyn Toon, who has worked for over 20 years with people experiencing BPD, complex trauma, emotional dysregulation, self-harm, suicidality, and chronic high-risk presentations. Her clinical experience spans public mental health, private hospital settings, and private practice, including the assessment and management of complex, long-term and high-risk clients.
Carolyn has extensive experience in evidence-based treatment approaches for BPD and complex trauma, including the development and facilitation of DBT programs for adolescents, young adults, and adults. She brings a strong understanding of the clinical, relational, systemic, and risk-management challenges involved in supporting this client group, as well as a deep commitment to improving access to long-term, effective psychological treatment.
We also support NDIS Support Workers and Support Coordinators.
Upcoming events
See our events and workshops page to register your interest for groups we have upcoming this year.
Events and workshops can be delivered on request. To arrange a solution tailored to your learning or support needs, please contact us for further assistance.
