Session C6 | Workshop | Part 1
Tracks
Stream C
| Sunday, September 20, 2026 |
| 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
Overview
Schema-Informed Model of Supervision: Integrating Relational Awareness, Competence, and Reflective Practice - Megan Fry & Simone Ray (90 mins)
Details
This workshop will run over two session blocks, C6 & C7 | 10:30 am - 12:00 pm & 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Presenter
Mrs Megan Fry
Clinical Psychologist
M Fry Psychologist
Schema-Informed Model of Supervision: Integrating Relational Awareness, Competence, and Reflective Practice
10:30 AM - 2:30 PMAbstract
Schema therapy supervision, grounded in the model developed by Jeffrey Young, integrates technical skill acquisition with relational attunement and reflective awareness. A schema-informed model of supervision offers a structured framework for enhancing supervisee competence while addressing the interpersonal and emotional processes that influence learning, performance, and professional identity development.
This workshop aligns with key competencies outlined by the Code of Conduct, particularly in the domains of ethical practice, reflective practice, communication, cultural responsiveness, and professional supervision. By conceptualising supervision through a schema informed framework, supervisors are supported to recognise how core emotional needs, schema vulnerabilities, and coping responses shape supervisee learning and clinical decision-making.
Participants will develop competencies in:
• Enhancing reflective practice and self-awareness
• Identifying and constructively responding to supervisee schema activations that may impact clinical work, therapeutic boundaries, or ethical judgement
• Delivering developmentally attuned feedback that promotes autonomy, accountability, and professional growth
• Balancing supervisory roles (teacher/coach, mentor/role model, and therapist / limited reparenting agent within ethical limits)
The workshop incorporates brief theoretical framing, experiential exercises, and structured deliberate practice. Through guided role-plays, participants will practise managing common supervisory challenges such as defensiveness, perfectionism, avoidance, overcompensation, and self-doubt—while maintaining a safe and collaborative supervisory alliance.
A dedicated experiential component supports supervisors to reflect on their own schema activations within supervision. Strengthening supervisor self-awareness enhances emotional regulation, reduces enactments, and promotes ethical, culturally sensitive, and developmentally appropriate supervisory interventions.
Participants will leave with a practical, evidence-informed supervision framework that strengthens supervisee competence, supports ethical and reflective practice, and ultimately enhances supervisory outcomes. This workshop is designed for supervisors seeking to deepen relational attunement while maintaining clear professional standards and evaluative responsibilities.
This workshop aligns with key competencies outlined by the Code of Conduct, particularly in the domains of ethical practice, reflective practice, communication, cultural responsiveness, and professional supervision. By conceptualising supervision through a schema informed framework, supervisors are supported to recognise how core emotional needs, schema vulnerabilities, and coping responses shape supervisee learning and clinical decision-making.
Participants will develop competencies in:
• Enhancing reflective practice and self-awareness
• Identifying and constructively responding to supervisee schema activations that may impact clinical work, therapeutic boundaries, or ethical judgement
• Delivering developmentally attuned feedback that promotes autonomy, accountability, and professional growth
• Balancing supervisory roles (teacher/coach, mentor/role model, and therapist / limited reparenting agent within ethical limits)
The workshop incorporates brief theoretical framing, experiential exercises, and structured deliberate practice. Through guided role-plays, participants will practise managing common supervisory challenges such as defensiveness, perfectionism, avoidance, overcompensation, and self-doubt—while maintaining a safe and collaborative supervisory alliance.
A dedicated experiential component supports supervisors to reflect on their own schema activations within supervision. Strengthening supervisor self-awareness enhances emotional regulation, reduces enactments, and promotes ethical, culturally sensitive, and developmentally appropriate supervisory interventions.
Participants will leave with a practical, evidence-informed supervision framework that strengthens supervisee competence, supports ethical and reflective practice, and ultimately enhances supervisory outcomes. This workshop is designed for supervisors seeking to deepen relational attunement while maintaining clear professional standards and evaluative responsibilities.
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Megan Fry is a Clinical Psychologist and Advanced Individual Schema Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer, as well as a Board-Approved Clinical Supervisor based in Brisbane, QLD. With over two decades of clinical experience (an over five years supervisory experience), her work is situated at the intersection of schema therapy, professional training, and reflective supervision practice. Megan’s supervisory approach integrates core schema therapy principles—including case conceptualisation, emotional needs, and the therapeutic alliance—to facilitate supervisee competence, autonomy, and professional identity development.
Megan is also recognised for her contribution to the theoretical advancement of Schema Therapy through the development of the Military Mode Model, an emerging framework designed to conceptualise the schema and mode processes involved in the transition from military to civilian life.
Dr Simone Ray
Laburnum Psychology
Schema-Informed Model of Supervision: Integrating Relational Awareness, Competence, and Reflective Practice
10:30 AM - 2:30 PM.....
Dr Simone Ray is a Clinical Psychologist, Advanced Certified Individual Schema Therapist and Supervisor, and Board-Approved Clinical Supervisor based in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Her clinical interests include complex trauma, dissociative disorders, and personality disorders.
Simone is deeply passionate about supporting and empowering both clients and supervisees through the Schema Therapy model. She has been an active contributor to the schema therapy science and research community, having previously served as Chair of the International Society for Schema Therapy (ISST) Science and Research Committee.
Simone completed her PhD at Bond University, QLD, Australia, where her published research focused on integrating the Schema Therapy model with dark personality traits and dysfunctional workplace behaviours.
