How to Bring Cultural Responsivity into Supervision

This session explores how to create psychological and cultural safety in supervision, while navigating the balance of proximity and distance in cross-cultural relationships. It will also unpack transference and countertransference, and build confidence in facilitating complex conversations around race and identity.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain key considerations when supervising a student from a diverse cultural background, exploring the principles of cultural humility, psychological safety and broaching.

• Identify and implement practical strategies that support effective clinical supervision and strengthen the supervisory relationship.

• Demonstrate approaches for initiating and facilitating discussions about culture, race, racism, and intersectionality within clinical supervision.

Presented by:

Nasalifya Namwinga (She/Her) Pola Practice Founder, Senior Clinical Psychologist, Research Lead, PhD Candidate

Nasalifya Namwinga (She/Her) is a Zambian woman who was raised in the (Swansea, Wales) UK and (kirikiriroa/Hamilton) New Zealand and now resides in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). Her migration journey and lived experience of mental ill health inspired to pursue a mission to create spaces where those marginalised could access world-class mental health and wellbeing services. In 2018, she founded Pola Psychology (now Pola Practice).

Nasalifya provides consultation with a specialisation in culturally responsive mental health service delivery, executive coaching from an intersectional perspective and is pursuing a PhD exploring how generative AI can be leveraged to deliver training to mental health practitioners to be more culturally responsive. She on boards for arts and health organisations and has a keen interest in the intersection between art and well-being.