Meet the Team
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Joan Wright Howie
Joan is a Uniting Church minister, spiritual director and professional supervisor with 30-year experience in congregations, synod, chaplaincy, NGO, project and educational contexts. She is a member of the Australian Association of Supervisor’s (AAOS) Board of Directors and trains supervisors and spiritual directors alongside her private practice.
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Marcel Koper
Marcel has been a Mental Health professional/ therapist and supervisor for over 25 years and specialises in providing supervision for mental health professionals (Psychologists, therapists, supervisors, nurses, music therapists) and those in ministry settings of all types (ministers, priests, leaders, chaplains, pastoral carers, youth leaders and more) as well as other leaders, lawyers and school principals. He believes that if he is providing support for the one person, then he is supporting the hundreds that they are ministering/ offering care to directly or indirectly.
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Julie McDonald
Having worked in diverse settings as a supervisor, therapist and educator I’m passionate about connecting people to what they think and feel, the way in which this shapes their lives and how they might wish to respond. I have a particular interest in compassionate ethics and the wisdom that can be acquired in coming to know ourselves and appreciating others.
Advisory Group
Randolph has a background in counselling, management consulting and large not-for-profit organisations. As part of the advisory group to Good Supervision Matters he provides ongoing support to their activities. Randolph worked for Lifeline providing crisis counselling services and loves supporting this group of dedicated supervision practitioners, being acutely aware from his own counselling experiences how good quality supervision is fundamental to 'helping professionals', and ultimately, the provision of effective and practical outcomes for clients.
Randolph Head
Geoff Broughton
Geoff is an Australian pioneer in the field of Pastoral Supervision training with thirty years of ministry experience within the Anglican Church.
Geoff is the Associate Professor in Practical Theology, at Charles Sturt University, the Principal of Pastoral Supervision Australia and an Associate of The Institute of Pastoral Supervision and Reflective Practice.
Geoff also serves as Vice President on the board of the Australasian Association of Supervision (AAOS).