Clinical Supervision
Robbie B.
Mental Health Occupational Therapist
Telehealth OT Specialist
Robbie has been a Mental Health Occupational Therapist for over 10 years. Robbie is passionate about the supervision needs of OT’s working in the mental health space. Robbie understands that the work in the psychosocial space can be complex, challenging, confronting, nuanced and at times, but also that it can also be quite isolating. Through supervision, Robbie seeks to build the knowledge, skills, capacity and understanding of his supervisees to provide safety in practice, preserve client and clinician wellbeing, ensure AHPRA compliance is maintained, and help clinician’s grow their relevant professional and clinical skills.
Robbie appreciates that working in mental health can be challenging or may appear scary, however he believes that through by establishing safety and connection in the supervisory space, we can build the capacity of OT’s to work in a significantly under serviced area of OT. Furthermore, Robbie believes that supervision can help practitioners build their confidence, establish and preserve boundaries, minimise the impacts of imposter syndrome, navigate the complex and often confusing
schemes (NDIS, Medicare etc) to ultimately build the OT’s skills when working in the psychosocial disability space. Whether you are, a new graduate OT, a clinician wanting to explore working in the psychosocial space, or even someone who is an experienced mental health clinician, Robbie is keen to support your professional and clinical goals.
Finally, Robbie provides supervision and business consultancy support to all OT’s. You don’t need to be a mental health OT for Robbie to be able to supervise your clinical and professional practice, or to gain support with growing your OT business!
Our Values
Our values are something we live by at The Online OT.
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Alliance: The service we provide is focused on forming trusting alliances with our clients and their support networks. Where appropriate, we strive to work as closely as possible with our clients care persons and supports, to ensure a high level of wrap around care is provided.
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Devotion: We believe that through a persistent commitment to our clients care, and a devotion to application of evidence-based practices, we can help our clients build their functional capacity and/or stabilise the impacts of their disability on their daily lives.
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Adaptability: Adaptability: Our therapy process and engagement methods are always evolving and changing to
meet the complex needs of our client’s mental health and/or neurodiverse challenges. We aim to be therapeutically adaptable in our practices and work with our clients to enable their recovery journey.
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Meaningful: Our service has been designed to provide meaningful and impactful change in the lives of our clients who are struggling with poor mental health or the impacts of their neurodiverse needs. We work collaboratively with our clients to try to positively evoke meaningful change into their lives.
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Respect: Our team ensures respect for our clients, their care and their whole sense of self in all of our practices. We respect our clients for who they are, regardless of race, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status or any other identifying factor- we are all human beings and equally deserve to be respected.
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Boldness: In all of our clinical and non-clinical work, our team strive to work in a manner which is bold, brave and where trying new things is commended, rather than shied away from".
Our Mission at The Online OT
As an online service provider, we aim to connect people with psychosocial disabilities and/or neurodiverse presentation to quality care regardless of our client’s geographical location. Our team believe that all Australian’s should be able to access support and care for their mental health and not be weighed down by excessive wait times for local support.
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We seek to enable equitable service provision of our clients and minimise wait times for quality
occupational therapy by utilising telehealth services.
"Equitable access to health care is essential for inclusive and sustainable progress in society."
The Online OT