Alison Cannell

03/09/2025

Always a pleasure to provide DV-alert DFV Awareness training to front line workers to grow their knowledge, skill and confidence in themselves and their practice. See www.dvalert.org.au for details of this fully funded training.

25/05/2025

Posting today particularly in support of Counsellors relatively new to the profession. I qualified back in 2005, but can still clearly remember my first few client sessions and the importance of good quality supervision in supporting me to grow my confidence and continually develop my quality of practice.
I’m therefore highlighting my offer of a limited number of substantially discounted ($99) one off individual Supervision sessions via Zoom to any Counsellors within their first year of practice, with no further obligation.
My background includes generalist Counselling with Uniting Care, Private Practice, Crisis Support, groupwork with co-dependency and addiction and Addiction Treatment Clinic work with both clients and their families. I’ve trained the Diploma of Counselling, trained and supervised Lifeline Crisis Supporters and held leadership roles with Lifeline. I currently train workers and community in DFV awareness and Su***de ASIST. Family and Systemic Constellations Training and Gestalt Supervision has had a huge influence in supporting me to work in a highly relational way. I pride myself on bringing compassion and curiosity to supervision, to support you to feel comfortable in working with whatever challenges you may face.
I’m a member of the ACA College of Supervision and Registered Clinical Counsellor with PACFA. To request a 15 minute complimentary conversation to see if you feel fit, or directly request to book your Supervision session, please visit my website here

21/05/2025

Very happy face at ‘Gestalt Therapy Brisbane’ for the next 3 days. I’ve always had a feeling I’ll do some professional development here as I feel very drawn to Gestalt in my ways of working. Given one of the things l love doing is Supervision for Counsellors and Community Service workers, how could I resist their program in ‘Relational Gestalt Supervision,’ to add to my skills and knowledge, and connect with some beautiful fellow professionals🙏 Even better this is part one and I get to come back in September for part two💕,

10/04/2025

I'm delivering this one day DFV awareness program on the Sunshine Coast on May 19th on behalf of Lifeline QLD, as part of DFV Prevention month .. fully funded and open to the general public.

16/03/2025

Sometimes it’s good to step outside the comfort zone into something that feels like it’s got a place .. even if you’re not quite sure what the place is at this stage😜 So this weekend was the first weekend of my Yoga Teacher training .. really enjoyed it and very drawn to another opportunity for ever ongoing personal growth and also mindfulness strategies which will support both myself and my client work. Really looking forward to actually getting back into some consistent yoga practice … It’s been a LONG time!🙏🙏

14/01/2025

I'm planning to start up a new Group Supervision group for Counsellors/Psychotherapists at some stage in February and so do shout if you'd like to express interest or discuss.

I usually work with a maximum of 6 in a supervision group, to align with PACFA requirements (and of course therefore fulfil ACA requirements at the same time) and charge $80 for a 2 hour session. I'm a clinical registrant with PACFA and member of the ACA College of Supervisors (I supervise up to and including level 2 for ACA).

Typically I prefer closed groups for a 6 session commitment (usually one per month), as participants then have the opportunity to learn through growing relationship and trust with each other over time.

Whilst I trained in the Rise Up supervision mode, much of my own work and supervision has been more process oriented, in the here and now, and draws on somatic and gestalt ways of working. These all feature therefore heavily in my work and I'm strongly influenced by substantial training in systemic ways of working/family constellations, and so often support my supervisees to view issues arising through a systemic lens and to draw on the resources of the field.

Group participants are free to bring the usual wide range of supervision topics .. be it 'triggers' arising for self, client challenges and queries, ethical issues, development opportunities, practice building .. I very much trust that in my holding the energy of the group, what emerges will be useful for all.

Dates/times will of course depend on preferences/availabilities of interested parties and so do include these in your EOI.

Contact via:
- Facebook message
- alison@alisoncannell.com
- 0422 974 042

One on one supervision for Counsellors, Community Service workers and Leaders also available.

www.alisoncannell.com

11/12/2024

Happy to have delivered my last DV Alert DFV Program for this year on behalf of Lifeline, with a wonderful group of participants. Dates for next year for this nationally available program for front line workers can be viewed at the website www.dvalert.org.au

27/11/2024

Given my delivery of the DV Alert Program on behalf of Lifeline, it's important to stay current, and I've enjoyed the opportunity this last 3 days to attend the STOP DV conference. So good to connect with colleagues, make new connections and all come together to learn. DV Alert is available on a funded basis to front line workers, or if you're looking to build awareness of DFV amongst your community or staff next year then give me a shout to provide a tailored program. With 85 women murdered this year as a result of DFV it's so important that we all try to play what part we can in reducing gender based violence🙏

20/09/2024

Look at the pride on our participants' faces on successfully completing their 2 day, Living Works ASIST Su***de First-Aid Program in Brisbane this week! Such a diverse group, including Rural Support Officers, Social Prescribing Link Worker, leaders from Animal Welfare League of QLD, Crisis Support volunteer, Family & Advocacy Support Worker, Homelessness Case Workers, Psychology Student, Small Business Financial Counsellor and Youth Housing Case Workers. All leaving ready, willing and able to support the building of su***de safer communities.

Do shout up if your community or organisation is ready to invest in this life-saving training.

13/09/2024

I'm really delighted to have received my award yesterday of CSA Accredited Supervisor. In the words of CSA, "The Coaching Supervision Academy's Diploma Certificate is awarded after successfully completing CSA's globally recognised and rigorous, 1-year programme for experienced professionals in Coaching Supervision." Whilst this Program in name is focused on 'Coaching Supervision,' it is by far the most rigorous and valuable PD I have undertaken to support both my Clinical Supervision and Leadership Supervision practice.

I started out on this Program over a year ago, with the aim of further developing my existing supervision practice, connecting with other professionals in the field and, most importantly, sensing that the Program would be a vehicle to support my 'integration' as a Practitioner. Whilst I love the breadth and depth of my experience, I've equally done much wrestling with it over time ... am I a Psychotherapist, a Supervisor, a Leader, a Coach, a Change Management professional, a Trainer/Facilitator?? .. there's been many a time I've done my own head in going round in circles! Is it just me or do you do that too??

The reality is, those things are all parts of my experience and qualification - yet it's not useful to hold them in front of me and try to choose between them. With my systemic lens on the world, I find it much more useful these days to imagine those things behind me, there to be leant into, there to provide resource to me - experience, knowledge and skill to me, in however I show up in the world, whatever the 'role title' is. All underpinned by a quality I bring that I'm coming to see is very likely one of the most important things I bring ... the ability to simply just 'be' with an individual or a group and bring an energy that has them feel safe to just be also, and to share their real self, their real challenges and their real pain .. because from that, a true felt sense of relief and potential for change can occur.

I feel truly grateful to have had my experience with Coaching Supervision Academy Ltd to support my ever ongoing integration and growth, which in turn grows my ability to support my clients.

Thanks to all of my Teachers and colleagues along the way and also to my incredible supervision clients - counsellors, leaders and coaches - I love working with you!

11/09/2024

Yesterday was World Su***de Prevention Day and tomorrow is R U OK Day .. both critical for awareness at a time when on average 9 people a day die by su***de in Australia.

At a pragmatic level, it's good to know that Lifeline have an online library of tools, techniques and information to support across a range of issues, including anxiety, depression, domestic & family violence and suicidal thoughts. Access the Toolkit at https://toolkit.lifeline.org.au/quiz

Or why not consider a Living Works ASIST Su***de First Aid two day program for your organisation or community.

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