Monica Korpershoek
Online Clinical Supervision for Psychologists and Clinicians
About ---------------
A career as a Clinical Psychologist shaped by clinical practice, supervision and learning
I am a Clinical Psychologist and Supervisor with over 30 years of experience in clinical practice, supervision, education and professional development across South Africa, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Throughout my career, a central part of my work has been supporting psychologists and other mental health professionals to develop their clinical thinking, confidence and professional practice, and to make sense of what the work brings up in them.
Monica Korpershoek
Clinical Psychologist
How I think about supervision
I offer the kind of supervision I have valued most myself: a space that takes clinical thinking seriously, and doesn’t look away from the parts of the work that are hard to say out loud.
My clinical foundations are psychodynamic and interpersonal with a longstanding interest in relationships, attachment and what unfolds between the therapist and the client. In supervision, that means attending not only to what is happening for your client, but to what is happening between the two of you, and to what the work stirs up in you. Feeling stuck, pulled in, pushed away or unexpectedly moved is often some of the most useful clinical information we have.
Over time, my thinking has broadened through further study and training in trauma-informed practice. I am increasingly interested in how trauma affects not only psychological experiences and relationships, but also the body and nervous system. Somatic and body-based perspectives have added another dimension to how I understand clinical work, and in supervision we may notice what shows up in the body, yours as well as your client's.
I continue to hold a small clinical caseload alongside my supervision work, so what I bring to the room stays current.
My Professional Journey
A deep interest in people, relationships and the process of learning has been a constant throughout my career
Alongside my clinical work, teaching, supervision and the development of other mental health professionals have been consistent threads throughout my career.
My early career began in South Africa before I moved to the United Kingdom, where I worked in specialist mental health services including the Tavistock Clinic in London. In the UK , I was a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service and was involved in university-based clinical psychology training, including the development of the Child Training Block for Clinical Psychology Trainees at Bangor University.
In Australia, I worked predominantly within public Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, holding senior clinical and leadership roles, including Discipline Senior of Psychology and Workforce Development Lead.
Alongside my public sector work, I have managed a private practice working with adults experiencing a wide range of emotional and psychological difficulties, including complex trauma. This work has kept me close to what it means to stay with clients whose histories are layered and whose difficulties rarely resolve in straight lines, and to the demands this places on the therapist. Within my practice, I have also supervised psychologists and other mental health professionals many, of them working with similarly complex presentations.
Across these roles, I developed in-service education and training programmes for psychologists and multi-disciplinary mental health professionals, and helped establish supervision pathways to support clinicians at different stages of their professional development.
Supervision, education & professional development
Supporting the development of mental health professionals
Supervision, teaching and professional development have been integral to my work from the beginning of my career. I have supervised psychologists, psychology registrars and other mental health professionals across all levels of experience and professional development, from clinicians at the beginning of their careers through to highly experienced practitioners.
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Clinical Supervision
Individual and group supervision for psychologists and other mental health professionals across all levels of experience and development.
Education and Training
Development and delivery of university training, in-service education programmes and professional development for multidisciplinary teams.
Workforce Development
Developing education and training programmes and supervision pathways that support sustainable, high-quality clinical practice.
Professional Foundations
Qualifications and professional training
Qualifications
Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Masters of Philosophy in Child Psychiatry
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Process Consultation
Tavistock Centre, London, UK
Accredited Practitioner, Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy
Anna Freud Centre, London, UK
Trauma-informed training
Why the Vagal System Holds the Key to the Treatment of Trauma
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine (NICABM)
With Stephen Porges and Ruth Buczynski
Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine (NICABM)
Including Bessel van der Kolk
How to Work with the Traumatised Brain
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine (NICABM): Bessel van der Kolk and Ruth Buczynski
The Neurobiology of Compassion
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioural Medicine (NICABM) including Paul Gilbert
Complex Trauma Certification Training Level 1 and 2
PESI: Janina Fisher
EMDR Core Skills Certificate: Treating PTSD and Complex Trauma
PESI: Stacey Ruse
The Body Keeps the Score
PESI: Bessel van der Kolk
Complete IFS Therapy Immersion: Internal Family Systems across Clinical Applications
PESI: with Frank Anderson and Richard Schwartz
Registrations
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) PSY0001127417
British Psychoanalytic Council
Experience matters. Curiosity does too.
After more than thirty years of clinical practice, I remain curious about people, relationships and the process of therapeutic change. I believe good supervision creates the space to think deeply, question what we think we know, and continue developing throughout our professional lives.