Professional Development
For the Love of Dogz
Practice Supervision
Practice supervision is a professional support service designed to help organisations and staff to set career goals, overcome challenges, maintain personal safety, upskill, enhance self-care and become more reflective practitioners. Practice supervision can reduce worker stress, promote wellbeing, while minimising the risk of burnout and vicarious trauma. Our programme provides unique support through an engaging, professional and animal assisted lens.
Our experienced clinicians can also provide support through professional debriefing of critical events. Whether you’re a frontline worker or manager, our practice supervision programme can help you and your organisation to stay connected to your core values and support you to achieve your goals.
Courses
Relational Awareness and
Wisdom for Clinicians
This course provides clinicians with the fundamental knowledge, skills and attitudes required for ethical inclusion of dogs (symbolically, virtually or physically) in therapeutic settings. This course is the foundation course for all other Dogz 4 Life courses.
- Prerequisite: No
- Length & Delivery: Self paced 6 online modules with one 3 hour face to face via zoom
CIRT – Canine Integrative
Relational Therapy
Canine Integrative Relational Therapy is a wholistic therapeutic model that utilises the intuitive wisdom of dogs’ natural behaviour, behavioural learning theories, science and assistance animal training techniques. CIRT fosters relational healing, emotional growth, adaptive skills and creates resilience while developing a deeper connection with self and other.
- Prerequisite: RAW for clinicians, applicants must be qualified allied health or mental health clinicians to apply (eg OT, Physio, SP, Counsellors, Play Therapists etc)
- Length & Delivery: 6 months online with weekly zoom sessions, 3 online modules, supervision and video assessment requirements
Mentoring for Therapy Dog Teams
This program offers mentoring/supervision for therapy dog teams. Participating in regular supervision will be a key requirement of ongoing support for therapy dog teams trained through Dogz 4 Life. These sessions allow clinicians to discuss any training or therapeutic challenges/successes that may arise.
- Prerequisite: Therapy Dog Team (commenced or completed)
- Length & Delivery: One hour in person or via zoom
Master Classes
- Engaging teens in therapy
- Competence and consent (teens)
- Medical trauma
- Medical Professionals – special considerations in counselling
- Puppies in the playroom
- Complex task training for dogs included in therapeutic environments
