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Clinical Supervision & Support
for Mental Health Professionals

“My extensive experience as a Supervisor allows you to achieve a higher level of professional practice and work satisfaction.”

Dr Peter Richard-Herbert.

Welcome to Supervisor Central

Professional/clinical supervision is an essential safeguard for clients, support for counsellors and mental health workers and a process through which practitioners can develop their skills and competence.

Supervisor Central’s Dr Peter Richard-Herbert is a competent professional clinical supervisor for counsellors, psychotherapists, hypnotherapists and mental health workers. He is able to conduct supervision sessions using various supervision interventions, provide effective evaluation and feedback to supervisees, and address the ethical and legal considerations of supervision and supervisee’s client situations.

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Join the Supervisor Central supervisee group and enjoy informative, interactive supervision sessions with
Dr Peter Richard-Herbert, an experienced registered Supervisor ready to inform, inspire and guide you along your counselling, psychotherapy or hypnotherapy career pathway.

On your 3rd supervision session you will be given access to Supervisor Central members area where you can access your supervision records, invoice/receipts and important resources on counselling news, techniques and self-care.

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What is Clinical Supervision?

ACA Supervision Policy & Guidelines states:

Supervision is the process whereby a counsellor can speak to someone who is trained to identify any behavioural and psychological changes in the counsellor that could be due to an inability to cope with issues of one or more clients.
Supervision is a process whereby the supervisee can reflect on their practice, discuss workplace and
professional issues in a safe environment. 

The Supervision Experience

Dr Peter Richard-Herbert works to ensure the standards of the specialist craft of Professional Clinical Supervision
for his supervisees. Peter’s eclectic approach to clinical practice and supervision comes from his
vast experience of 40 years as a clinical therapist himself.

Dr Richard-Herbert was awarded ‘The Lifetime Award for Excellence in Counselling’ at the ACA National Conference
Inaugural Awards ceremony in June 2025. 

The Supervision Experience

Dr Peter Richard-Herbert works to ensure the standards of the specialist craft of Professional Clinical Supervision for his supervisees. Peter's eclectic approach to clinical practice and supervision comes from his vast experience of 40 years as a clinical therapist himself.

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About Your Supervisor

Dr Peter Richard-Herbert says, “My education and training, together with over 80,000 face to face clinical hours
from 40 years in private practice allows me to provide you, the supervisee, with the tools and methods you need to
achieve success and maintain a healthy counselling future and work/life balance.”

Supervision qualifications:

Dr Peter Richard-Herbert is a registered clinical member of PACFA, ACA (Level 4), AHA (fellow) and AESTA (National President).

Dr Pete is a registered accredited Supervisor with PACFA, ACA, AHA and AESTA providing supervision to clinical professional counsellors, psychotherapists and clinical hypnotherapists face to face and via online Zoom sessions. He supervised students in placement as Senior Lecturer at ACAP from 2019 to 2024. He has also supervised students in his practice from ACAP, Canberra University and Torrens University in recent years and currently.

View a full list of qualifications here

Specialties: Counselling, Psychodynamic Psychotherapies, Ego State Therapy, Behavioural-State Analysis, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Metaphoric Symbolised Imagery (MSI)™, Clinical Supervision

Qualifications:

Doctorate -Professional Studies- Higher Research Degree-Psych (CQU)

MA Psychology (UWS)

Grad. Dipl. Mediation (Bond)

Grad Dipl. Psychotherapy and Counselling (UK)

Grad. Cert. Applied Coaching (ACAP)

Dipl. Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy (UK)

Dipl. Clinical Hypnosis (Aust)

Cert IV Training and Assessment

Awards

'Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Counselling' – ACA 2025.

Professional Affiliations and Fellowships

PACFA – Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia – Clinical Member

ACA – Australian Counselling Association – Clinical Member

ESTI (Ego State Therapy International) – Chair – Australian Board Representative

AESTA (Australasian Ego State Therapy Association) – National President;
 Founding member and Fellow

ISH (International Society Hypnosis) – Clinical Member

NCP (UK) National Council of Psychotherapists – Clinical Member and Fellow

AHA (NSW) Australian Hypnotherapists Association – Fellow and former NSW President

RTI (Resource Therapy International) – Clinical Trainer and Supervisor Resolution Institute (Australia) – Professional Member.

ICF- International Coaching Federation – Member.

Reg. Clinical Supervisor: PACFA, AHA, AESTA, RTI, ESTI.

Dr Peter Richard-Herbert
All individual clinical supervision sessions are approx 60 minutes duration, 
and are conducted either in person in Bowral, Southern Highlands or via zoom. $120 per session.
Group sessions of 2 hours duration are available by appointment for groups of 4 (minimum) to 6 people and are conducted via zoom. $75 per person per session.
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Testimonials

“Peter is very self-aware and shows a deep understanding of his supervisees needs and understands the issues and potential vulnerability associated with the supervisee role. From his many years of client contact he can relate to any situation a counsellor may encounter, so his rapport with his supervisees is exemplary.”
Prof. Gordon Emmerson, World renowned Parts therapist, speaker, author and founder of Resource Therapy.
“In my professional opinion Peter demonstrates a natural ability to tune in to his clients underlying emotions and therefore enables his clients to move quickly through issues that are occurring in their lives.”
Maya Lak, former AHA Secretary, Supervisor trainer and Professional Supervisor.
“Peter has been my counselling supervisor, tutor and mentor for some years now and has provided me with various levels of support that range from counselling supervision to in-depth training…. I would recommend Peter to anyone who is looking for an experienced, collaborative and integrative supervisor.
Lukas Buchler, Counsellor, Supervisee and Member of Supervisor Central.
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Do I need Supervision?

Counselling is an emerging profession within the Australian human services context and is currently growing rapidly in both the number of practitioners and scope of services being offered. Counselling supervision provides an essential system for quality assurance and professional development of registered counsellors and psychotherapists, which, in turn, holds the potential to deliver better outcomes for clients.

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Supervision provides a mechanism for registered counsellors and psychotherapists to review caseloads with an experienced practitioner and to develop the best therapeutic outcomes for the client, to discuss any concerns or ethical issues that may arise, and to reflect on the impact of the client work on the counsellor in an effort to improve self-care (ACA, 2018; PACFA, 2020).

Supervision is valued for the role it plays in enhancing the professional practice of those working in the areas of mental health and psychosocial care and is recognised as having an impact on improved client outcomes in professions including counselling and psychotherapy, psychology, psychiatry, social work and mental health nursing (Barletta, 2017).

In recognition of the potential value of supervision to practice, professional bodies in Australia have specified supervision as an obligatory requirement of maintaining professional membership and registration (J. Schirmer and S. Thompson, 2021).
– Counselling Australia Journal, Volume 22, Number 4, Summer 2021.

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