accredited supervisors

OneSpirit provides supervision to both ministers and students as an ongoing, mutually agreed process that supports them in being more effective in their ministry and in their work with clients. Supervision serves as a catalyst for growth, encouraging innovation, creativity, and reflective practice. It helps professionals tap into their strengths while recognising personal limits. It also offers a space for mutual support, ensuring that ministry and spiritual counselling never feel like solitary work.

With good supervision, ministers, spiritual counsellors, and practitioners can deepen and develop their practice on every level, from practical and professional skills to profound insight, understanding, and self-awareness.

OneSpirit’s Accredited Supervisors Group is committed to highlighting the importance of supervision across the organisation. This commitment shows up in the wide use of supervision within our community and its inclusion in our training programmes. We maintain a group of experienced supervisors who meet the professional standards required for accredited membership. Click their name, photo, or bio to learn more about them.

Adele Napier

I support people and organisations to tap into their natural creativity and connectedness, informing all aspects of life, relationships & work.

Amanda Edwards

Together with you, I love to find the Light that shines in you and the happiness that this brings, using language that is meaningful to you.

Anna Benn

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
– Viktor Frankl

Anne Webber

There are many & diverse ways of living a spiritual life & honouring that part of yourself. I respect everyone’s right to follow their own inner guidance & find ways that support & nourish them.

Catherine Wright

“We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. We always have the choice.” –Dalai Lama

John F. Doherty

I offer a light in the darkness for those people who need me, opening the inner doorway of the soul & holding a place of love, well-being and deep connection in service.

Joy Gleeson

My ministry is spiritual counselling/supervision for people of all backgrounds who want to live life more fully, find deeper satisfaction in their work & explore possibilities.

Marie O-Neill

Offering holistic counselling & therapy, combining evidence-based practice w/holistic tools such as mindfulness, meditation, somatic experiencing, & self-compassion for personal and spiritual growth.

Supervision is a deeply beautiful and essential aspect of our work exploring the mysteries of the Divine. It offers a safe space in which we are fully witnessed, encouraged, blessed and lovingly challenged to keep our connection to Spirit ‘clean and true’. This supports us to serve others – in whatever capacity that may be – from the deepest place of integrity and embodied awareness.

– OneSpirit Minister & Supervisor, Shianna Ravenlaw

I have been in supervision since 1994 when I was training as a homoeopath. It would not occur to me, 30 years on, to work without the sounding board and clarity of a supervisor alongside me, to ensure that I am safe, ethical, clear, and accompanied. In supervision, we can share our concerns and our mistakes, without fear of judgement. We are less lonely/isolated in our work, we have a place to work with our ‘blindspots’, and we have someone who cares and will celebrate with us.

– OneSpirit Minister & Supervisor, Nickie Aven

I am a complete advocate for the role of supervision in a minister’s life as it provides a safe and sacred space to reflect, process the impact and learn from the “live” work of a minister.

– OneSpirit Minister & Supervisor, John F. Doherty

I have personally experienced the profound difference that high-quality supervision can make when I’ve felt stuck, conflicted, and pushed to my limits. These experiences of supervision as sacred work have allowed me to be more present with my clients, in deeper relationships with my co-workers and more alive to the world. They led me to want to explore including supervision among the services I offer.

– OneSpirit Minister & Supervisor, Tim Ralphs

I love to be in a safe and sacred space with others exploring our connection to Spirit and growing in awareness and love, as well as honing our professional skills.

– OneSpirit Minister & Supervisor, John F. Doherty

Supervision is essential for anyone who works deeply with anyone else, to help us untangle the threads of “me” and “you”, and to help us feel the pain and the love within any deep encounter. For Ministers, it is especially important in addition to keeping our work in the context of spiritual practice and related to a spiritual path. This path can be narrow and steep and slippery. And it can branch and wander. The mist can come down. We can find ourselves turned around or at a cliff edge. A good Supervisor, with their own embodied spiritual practice, can help us along this path, either because they are a few steps ahead, waiting at the next bend, able to point out pitfalls and handholds to help you along, or because you are there together in the mist, sharing everything you each already know to help you, the supervisee, to take the next right step.

– OneSpirit Minister, Supervisor & Tutor, Sarah MacDonald

The need for Support and Supervision is necessary when navigating our connection to the Divine. The importance of being witnessed and held as others deepen their faith through trust and exploration. To offer a safe space to anchor our Spiritual Counselling Model and learn to use it wherever Ministry calls them to be.

– OneSpirit Minister & Supervisor, Sonya Leite

Maureen Treanor

I have come to know the deep healing of Sacred Connection, I will work with you in Spiritual Counselling, in creating Ceremony and Ritual to celebrate and support all of Life’s Sacred moments.

Nickie Aven

Nurturing heartfelt connections with each other, our beautiful earth and ourselves is my inspiration for this work. Listening deeply is where I begin. I hope we may meet soon.

A good ceremony changes the world. Good listening changes our hearts. Good meetings change our lives. I am here to celebrate, to listen & to meet, bringing healing to our hearts & our world.

Shianna Ravenlaw

I am called to witness, encourage and celebrate the flowering of the Light and Song within the Hearts of others, that they may experience the deep peace of their true nature.

Sonya Leite

My faith is based on the core teachings of many Spiritual paths & inspired teachers, my intention is to support you to be radiant, healthy & free.

Suzanne Cohen

I believe that by receiving the blessing of an infinite power of unconditional love, we can find our way to living a fully harmonious & balanced human life.

Tim Ralphs

“Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
-Rumi

This being human is sometimes a really tough gig! Through my personal ministry, I find my way through to living my life with dignity, beauty and compassion. I offer dance as a spiritual practice, and ceremony and individual sessions. I am also passionately committed to Conflict Resolution and offer sacred space to help people find good ways to resolve conflict.

– OneSpirit Minister & Supervisor, Catherine Wright

Through my own personal experience of having supervision, I know how essential it is. Supervision provides a safe moment in time where you can explore anything that is bothering you, causing stress or a lack of motivation in any aspect of your work or professional life. Personal issues come into the arena as well and may be hindering how you turn up in the world. Knowing I can take any issues I may be grappling with, to my supervision, to be explored without judgment allows me to be fully present and to find the joy in what I do.

– OneSpirit Minister & Supervisor, Amanda Edwards

Supervision provides a sacred space where healing, understanding and transformation can begin through reflecting on the challenges and joys of life.

– OneSpirit Minister & Supervisor, Joy Gleeson