Clinical & Cultural Supervision
Supervision is a protected space for reflecting on practice, strengthening professional judgement, supporting wellbeing, and maintaining safe, ethical, accountable work.
Tū Mana provides clinical, professional, and cultural supervision for practitioners, peer workers, counsellors, social workers, addiction workers, case managers, navigators, and kaimahi working across health, justice, kaupapa Māori, peer support, and community settings.
Supervision is tailored to the practitioner’s role, context, experience, and professional requirements.
Supervision May Support
Supervision may support practitioners and kaimahi with:
- addiction and co-existing problems practice
- trauma-informed practice
- culturally responsive and Te Tiriti-informed practice
- justice-facing work
- ethical decision-making
- boundaries and role clarity
- case formulation
- risk reflection
- documentation and report writing
- peer and lived experience practice
- managing emotional labour
- practitioner wellbeing and sustainability
- navigating complex client or whānau dynamics
Supervision Options
Tū Mana may provide:
- individual supervision
- DAPAANZ-aligned addiction supervision
- clinical and professional supervision
- cultural supervision
- peer/lived experience supervision
- group or rōpū supervision
- reflective practice support for teams
Supervision Approach
Supervision at Tū Mana is grounded in reflective practice, professional accountability, cultural safety, and practitioner wellbeing.
It provides space to review complex work, strengthen clinical and professional judgement, reflect on risk, ethics, boundaries, cultural safety, Te Tiriti practice, documentation, whānau complexity, and support ongoing professional development.
The supervision relationship needs to feel safe enough for honest reflection, but strong enough to offer challenge, accountability, and professional growth.
DAPAANZ-Aligned Supervision
Supervision is provided in line with DAPAANZ best-practice expectations and is informed by the Aronui supervision framework for addiction practitioners.
This includes attention to the three core functions of supervision:
Educative/formative development — strengthening knowledge, skill, confidence, and professional growth.
Supportive/restorative wellbeing — supporting practitioner resilience, reflection, and sustainability.
Administrative/normative accountability — maintaining safe, ethical, professional, and accountable practice.
For registered DAPAANZ practitioners, regular supervision is an important part of maintaining safe, ethical, reflective, and accountable addiction practice.
Cultural and Kaupapa Māori-Informed Practice
Tū Mana draws on clinical supervision practice alongside Māori models and values, including Te Whare Tapa Whā, Meihana, Te Pae Mahutonga, Tuakana–Teina, manaakitanga, whanaungatanga, ako, kaitiakitanga, and mauri ora.
This supports supervision that is reflective, relational, culturally grounded, and attentive to the wellbeing of both practitioners and the people, whānau, and communities they support.
Supervisor
Supervision is provided by Korrey Cook, DAPAANZ Registered Practitioner and Accredited Clinical Supervisor, with experience across addiction, trauma, mental health, justice-facing assessment, cultural practice, and clinical supervision.
Supervision is available online across Aotearoa, with face-to-face options by arrangement.
Supervision Enquiries
Tū Mana welcomes enquiries from DAPAANZ members, addiction practitioners, peer workers, counsellors, social workers, kaimahi, NGOs, kaupapa Māori services, and teams seeking clinical, professional, cultural, or reflective supervision.
Contact Tū Mana to discuss your supervision needs, professional requirements, and whether Tū Mana is the right fit.